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Friday’s Roundup: Drive-thru edition
A quick drive-thru tour of the contraception debate, on your way to a drive-thru funeral home (!!!!) where you may find the former archbishop of Philadelphia but hopefully not the pope.
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Mormons confront ‘epidemic’ of online misinformation
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) "The problem is not so much the discovery of particular details that are deal breakers for the faithful; the problem is a loss of faith and trust in an institution that was less than forthcoming to begin with."
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Gay bishop documentary ‘Love Free or Die’ takes center stage at Sundance
"If my story can help a young boy or girl in their teens believe they can have a wonderful and productive life and family," says the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, "then it's worth my putting up with a film crew following me around for two years in order to comfort and inspire them."
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Megadeth star David Ellefson takes thrash metal—and seminary—on tour
CLAYTON, Mo. (RNS) David Ellefson was an honest-to-God founding member of the legendary thrash metal band Megadeth. And his studies at a Lutheran seminary here illustrate why distance-learning programs are increasingly popular as seminarians don't have to uproot their lives to attend. For Ellefson, his new quest for the ministry is also about a peculiar foray through the apparent contradictions of rock and religion.
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Tuesday Godbytes: I Have a Tweet; Tebowing Gets Violent; Revolutionary Music
Happy (belated) Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Seminary students: ever wondered how MLK put together his sermons? Well wonder no more -- apparently he made up a lot of them on the fly. Yeah, he was that good.
MLK was, of course, a Christian. But, as the Houston Chronicle points out, deep...
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The long spiritual journey of singer Paul Simon
(RNS) Paul Simon says there's always been a spiritual dimension to his music. But the overt religious references in his most recent album, "So Beautiful or So What," surprised even him. There are songs about God, angels, creation, pilgrimage, prayer and the afterlife.
Simon say...
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Wednesday Godbytes: Who is the coolest? Mormon actors, Christian pop stars, or Amish hipsters?
When you hear the word "hipster," you probably think of many things. V-neck shirts. Awkward mustaches. Flannel. Odd musical tastes. Urban Outfitters. Misuse of the word "ironic."
But now we all apparently have to add another word to that list: Amish.
Hear me out: The idea isn't actual...
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Has Matisyahu left Judaism?
(RNS) Matisyahu, the improbable but undeniable reggae star, announced on Twitter on Tuesday (Dec. 13) that he is shaving the beard that has long marked him as a Hasidic Jew.
Fans are confused.
Is he giving up the Orthodox brand of Judaism he adopted 10 years ago, and the ultra-religio...
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Young hip Jews leading a Hanukkah music makeover
(RNS) Put on your boogie shoes -- the new Hanukkah songs are here!
What last year seemed like a happy coincidence has become a hip new Hanukkah tradition: groups of harmonizing young Jews releasing seriously Jewish, yet seriously danceable, songs for the Festival of Lights.
The Maccab...
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Tuesday Godbytes
The U.S. Army recently announced it will allow an orthodox Jewish Rabbi to attend military chaplaincy training without shaving his beard. Still, the Washington Post wonders if there are other religious barriers in the U.S. Military.
No more funny business? Religion Dispatches asks: is...
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