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Church softball league calls a foul on bisexual pastor
ST. CLAIR, Mo. (RNS) A league of six church softball teams shrank to five when the pastors of three Baptist churches told one of the member churches that their teams would no longer take the field against that church's team because the pastor is bisexual. By Tim Townsend.
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Good Friday, Passover mean headaches for baseball opening days
(RNS) Some Major League Baseball teams are opening their seasons on Friday, setting up a scheduling conflict with Jews observing Passover and Christians marking Good Friday. By Daniel Burke
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Tim Tebow brings a little goodness to Gotham
NEW YORK (RNS) Tim Tebow is Howdy Doody in a helmet, Opie Taylor running for touchdowns -- while reciting Bible verses, stopping to find a lost dog, visiting sick children in a hospital and helping a little old lady across the street, all before he reaches the end zone. By Kevin Manahan.
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Vatican pulls support for seminarians’ soccer league
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has withdrawn its support from a soccer tournament between Rome's seminaries, saying the tournament had lost its "educational" value. By Alessandro Speciale.
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New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dubbed the ‘Taiwanese Tebow’
(RNS) "We could probably count on one hand the number of Asian-Americans who speak out as prominent Christians.," said Melanie Mar Chow of the Asian American Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry. "It's great to have a role model like him."
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Christians join fight against cockfighting
(RNS) Christian leaders are joining with animal rights defenders to advocate against cockfighting, calling the sport antithetical to biblical values. By Chris Herlinger.
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Thursday’s Religion Roundup: Cage-fighting for Jesus? Apocalypse now—again?
Evangelicals debate the ethics of cage-fighting, George Soros channels Harold Camping, Alaska Airlines stops handing out prayer cards, we reveal “most exciting archival discovery in the post-Reformation era.”
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Thursday Godbytes: Occult New York City; Holy Punches
Have you ever noticed how many gargoyles there are in New York City? (Probably not, because looking up would make look like a tourist)
Does riding the subway make you hear voices? (That's probably the guy next to you on his cellphone.)
Has Grand Central Station ever felt kind of...mys...
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Boy is source of Native American saint’s miracle
(RNS) Jacob "Jake" Finkbonner of Ferndale, Wash., was 5 years old in 2006 when he split his lip playing basketball, developed a deadly flesh-eating strep infection and lay near death for months at Seattle Children's Hospital.
Jake's father, Don, is Native American and a member of the...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Iraq war ends; 2011’s top religion story; “menor
The killing of Osama bin Laden and the reactions it provoked in faith communities was the top religion story of the year, according to a Religion Newswriters Association survey.
Congress's hearings on radicalization among American Muslims was voted the No. 2 story, followed by the ind...
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