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“We made [Son of God] for this generation [so] that the teenagers would watch it. It’s a story of our time. It’s the story of our God, and we wanted to make it as well as we could.” More
“Hollywood, I think, approaches the Bible as public domain, as something that is owned by the culture at large, and they have discovered that some segments of the Christian community look at it as private property.” More
“For some, Calvinism is divisive and unbiblical” says Southern Baptist pastor Daniel Montgomery of Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky, “We’ve seen that it unifies our efforts. It gives us an understanding that God is at work in this world. We don’t need to make things happen. We simply join God in what he’s doing.” More
By way of video, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will present this acceptance speech from Deborah Potter for a 2014 Wilbur Award on April 5 in Tennessee. R&E has won the award for its piece on the life of Dorothy Day, … More
The President and the Pope; Bivocational Pastors; Blind Boys of Alabama; Franciscans at home and abroad care for sacred Christian sites More
President Obama visited Pope Francis for the first time this week (March 27).”The principal focus of the meeting was talking about issues of peace, international issues, and also talking about how to help poor people, how to help the marginalized all over the world,” says Father Tom Reese, an authority on the Vatican and senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter. “This is an area where the pope and President Obama are on the same page.” More
On Sundays, you’ll find Pastor Sam Livingston at his Baptist church in Hohenwald, Tennessee. But on the weekdays he’s at his other very different job as a public utilities manager. More
Of all the tourists who go to Israel and its surroundings each year, it’s estimated that more than half of them are Christian pilgrims visiting the holiest sites of the Christian story. It was Pope Clement VI who made the Franciscans the official guardians of these sites seven centuries ago. More
Religious business owners argue against federal requirement to provide contraceptive coverage; historian Simon Schama tells “The Story of the Jews”; Orthodox Jewish women take more of a leading role in Purim festivities. More
The Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments in a deeply divisive case: What limits should there be, if any, on owners of corporations claiming a religious exemption from federal law? More