Tag: Religion
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a profile today of perhaps this country’s best known Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Forrest Church of New York. He has a new book out called “Love and Death.” Last week, Church’s congregation gave him … More
Read more of Bob Abernethy’s interview with Reverend Forrest Church: Q: There came a day in 2006 when you received a call from your physician. Tell me the story. A: He called right after I’d had a barium esophagram and … More
The notoriously tough maximum security Sing Sing Prison in New York State is a forbidding place, not where you would expect to find a program offering an accredited master’s degree in professional studies in religion. The course is sponsored by the New York Theological Seminary, and it’s been at Sing Sing for a quarter of a century. More
BOOK REVIEW Poet as Prophet: The Religious Whitman and His Disciples by David E. Anderson The link between religion and poetry has largely been lost to the popular mind in the Western world, especially in the United States. Even the … More
At an October 22 briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, Anna Greenberg, senior vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, presented the results of a Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly/UN Foundation national survey on how religion shapes American perceptions … More
John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, remarks on the importance of the religious impulse in foreign policy and government’s “intellectual blinders” when it comes to understanding religion’s role.
The conventions are over. Truckloads of trash have found their way to landfills, despite best efforts to “go green.” Massive sets of Democratic Doric columns and the 51 foot by 30 foot high-definition screen of the Republicans, composed of 561 … More
Read excerpts from Kim Lawton’s August 15, 2008 interview in Washington, DC, with former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee about the McCain campaign, Republican platform issues, and the convictions of the candidate: I think the Republicans are going to see … More
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview with Leah Daughtry, chief executive of the 2008 Democratic Convention: Q: Tell us a little bit about the many ways religion and faith-based ideas and people will be incorporated into the convention this year. … More
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, guest anchor: The election season moves into high gear this week with the Democratic National Convention in Denver, followed by the Republican gathering in St. Paul. Religion continues to play an unusually prominent role in the … More
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