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Does sexual frustration fuel Islamic violence?
(RNS) Did alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan lose control, at least in part, because he was sexually frustrated?
That's one of the questions being asked in the investigation into the Nov. 5 rampage that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured. According to reports, Hasan v...
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COMMENTARY: There is no life in state-sanctioned killing
(RNS) Every so often, the glint of morality -- or common sense -- flashes across the television screen.
Witness a recent episode of the television drama "House." One doctor tells another: "It is impossible to take another person's life and remain unchanged." That's all I'll say; I don...
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Pope thanks N.M. governor for death penalty repeal
VATICAN CITY (RNS) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Wednesday (Apr. 15), hours before a Catholic group lit up Rome's Coliseum to honor New Mexico's recent abolition of the death penalty.
Richardson, a former candidate for the Democratic president...
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60 Oregonians died under assisted suicide in 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Sixty Oregonians ended their lives last year by taking a lethal drug dose prescribed under the Death With Dignity Act, state officials reported Tuesday.
That's the highest annual total in the 11-year history of the law, 11 more than in 2007. Deaths from a drug pre...
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Man commits suicide at Crystal Cathedral
A man walked into the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove today, knelt down at the foot of a cross and fatally shot himself in the head.
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Updike’s last abode
John Updike was a writer who cared about religion, so it seems fitting to note his death here. Admirers of his work will find these images, of the hospice where he died, sad but irresistible, as we wonder how the master would have described his last surroundings. Maybe he left some la...
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Palestinian Christians share Ramadan spirit
c. 2008 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Hala Jahshan, a resident of the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, isn't a Muslim, but like many Holy Land Christians feels enriched by the Ramadan traditions of Muslim neighbors and co-workers.
``Palestinian Muslims and Christian...
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Forever overhead
We lost a great writer Friday night when David Foster Wallace, known to fans as DFW, passed away, apparently by suicide.
Though he professed to be an admirer of John Donne's poetry and Kierkegaard's philosophy, Wallace was not known to be religious. Likewise, in his essays, short stor...
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Small-town cop tracks struggle in spiritual journal
c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
LEXINGTON, Ill. _ Spencer Johansen has been the popular police chief of this rural Illinois town (population 1,900) for 18 years and always thought he'd retire here as the police chief.
But then some seemingly inexplicable things started happenin...
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Petition seeks assisted suicide in Washington state
Initiative 1000 mirrors the Oregon law, which took effect in 1997 after a lengthy court fight, and would allow terminally ill people to obtain lethal prescription drugs for ending their own lives.
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