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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: The Last Testament; Episcopal abandonment; Western Wall
Just in time for the holidays, God has a new book out called the "The Last Testament," as "revealed" to a Daily Show writer. The NYT calls it "pseudoquaint."
Speaking of writers, the late David Foster Wallace reportedly flirted with joining the Catholic Church near the end of his lif...
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Atheists launch campaign to get unbelievers to `come out’
(RNS) The young man in the video pulls in close to his computer camera with the trappings of a typical college dorm room -- a loft bed and the clutter of cast-off clothes -- piled behind him.
Alex Fiorentini isn't talking about girls, beer or football. Instead, it's a coming-out momen...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Bernard Law, altar girls, Marijuana ministry
Where have you gone, Billy Sunday?
Asked to name the nation's most influential Christian leader, 40 percent of Americans said they couldn't think of anyone who meets that description, according to a new Barna poll.
Twenty percent said Billy Graham, nine percent said Pope Benedict XV...
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Catholic official resigns over Satan-homosexuality column
(RNS) A policy adviser to the U.S. Catholic bishops' anti-gay-marriage office resigned on Friday (Nov. 4), a week after writing a column that blamed Satan for homosexuality.
Daniel Avila had been an on-staff adviser to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Prom...
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`Bishops’ marriage guy’ blames devil for homosexuality
(RNS) A policy adviser for the U.S. Catholic bishops' anti-gay-marriage initiative is under fire for a now-retracted column that blames the devil for homosexuality.
In an Oct. 28 column in the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, Daniel Avila attempts to answer "some funda...
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Catholic official blames Satan for homosexuality
The Boston Pilot, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, issued a retraction and apology on Wednesday for a column that blamed the devil for homosexuality.
The column was written by Daniel Avila, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, who is also a policy advisor for the U.S. Confe...
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Anglicans won’t allow civil partnerships in churches
LONDON (RNS) The British government said Wednesday (Nov. 2) that same-sex couples will be allowed for the first time to use churches to seal their civil partnership vows, starting in December.
But the directive added that no religious group will be forced to conduct or host such a cer...
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Friday Godbytes
So, yes, some Christians are debating whether or not to celebrate Halloween. But you know what's also this Sunday?
That's right - Reformation Sunday!
Scott Alan at The Christian Century makes the case for celebrating the little-known holiday, and Christian scholar Diana Butler Bass i...
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Driscoll’s Portland church met by protesters
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Black-clad demonstrators gathered outside the Portland satellite branch of a Seattle megachurch on Sunday (Oct. 16) to protest the church's stance on homosexuality.
About 20 protesters lined up outside Mars Hill Church during the congregation's first Sunday mornin...
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Pastor defends teacher accused of anti-gay rant
UNION, N.J. (RNS) The pastor of a high school teacher who has been vilified for an anti-gay tirade on Facebook came to the woman's defense, calling her a "very loving person" who should not be fired for expressing her religious beliefs.
The Rev. Milton B. Hobbs, pastor of New Covenant...
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