by Larry Greenfield | Dec 23, 2011 | Opinion
Christmas is an invented date. We don’t have any idea of the day of Jesus’ birth. And we can’t even be sure of the year. My colleague and former teacher, Jay Wilcoxen, explains the confusion in the different New Testament accounts. If Jesus appeared...
by Lauren Markoe | Dec 21, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans: the most generous people in the world. In this season of giving, that’s no idle gloat. According to a new study, the United States tops a massive global charity survey, rising from fifth place in 2010. The “World Giving Index,” based on...
by Cathy Lynn Grossman | Sep 16, 2011 | News
(RNS) If World War II-era warbler Kate Smith sang today, her anthem could be “Gods Bless America.” That’s one of the key findings in newly released research that reveals America’s drift from clearly defined religious denominations to faiths cut to fit personal...
by Omar Sacirbey | Aug 25, 2011 | News
(RNS) Under a cloud of suspicion and distrust after the 9/11 attacks, there were stories of men named Muhammad who started going by “Mo,” mosque leaders telling their flocks to lie low and women leaving their headscarves at home. And then there was Asma Mangrio. “My...
by David Gibson | Jul 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Vatican’s highest-ranking official in the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, died Wednesday (July 27) night at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, succumbing to complications from lung surgery performed a few weeks earlier. Sambi, who was 73,...
