Faith is becoming an important facet of the newly announced vice presidential candidates’ roles in the presidential campaigns.
Joe Biden is a Roman Catholic. Obama clearly had in mind the 24 percent of the population that is Catholic when he chose Biden as his running mate. At the same time, Catholics are swing voters. Much of [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Religion and the Vice Presidential Candidates
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Churches raffle of gas sparks debate over the correct ways to attract congregants
Posted in Christianity, tagged Christianity, Financial Incentive on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Churches across the country are raffling gas cards and selling gas for 99-cents to attract congregants, says Blake Nicholson of the Associated Press.
One such church is the Congregational United Church of Christ of Valley City, N.D. Rev. Carl Borden says that the raffle is just “a method of marketing for the church.”
This has sparked a [...]
Taking a deeper look: Oprah’s influence
Posted in Christianity, Religion and Popular Culture on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oprah has commanded the world’s attention for more than 20 years now, launching her successful career on talk radio in Chicago, which evolved into a TV personality on the famous “Oprah Winfrey Show.” She has humbled herself before Africa’s poorest, confronted the troubled American family, and wowed her television audiences with new cars. [...]
Karis Church moves to Mo. Theatre
Posted in Christianity, Local, tagged Columbia Missouri, Karis Community Church on August 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of Columbia’s downtown congregations moved locations Sunday.
Karis Community Church, whose motto says it’s committed to being in The District for good, has changed venues. The church held its first meeting at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Visual Arts on Sunday. It’s not a permanent home, but it does give the congregation a larger [...]
Chronological Bible sparks debate
Posted in Christianity, Religion and Popular Culture, tagged Bible, biblical scholars, Bob Sanford, Christian, Columbia Missourian, Gospels, Heather Harrison, Psalms, The Chronological Study Bible on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From USA Today:
Bob Sanford wanted to create a Bible that would bring order and clarity to the text. Instead, he’s waded right into one of the great debates of biblical scholarship.
“(Our challenge) is to take the scholarship and make it enjoyable to a readership that enjoys history,” said Sanford, who oversees the Bible division [...]
The Afterlife for Scientologists
Posted in Religion and Popular Culture, tagged afterlife, Columbia Missourian, death, Heather Harrison, Isaac Hayes, past life, rebirth, Scientologist, Scientology, thetan on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slate.com wrote a piece about what Scientologists believe happens to a person in the afterlife. The article was inspired by the passing of soul-music legend and Scientologist Isaac Hayes, who died Sunday at the age of 65.
When someone dies, that person is “born again into the flesh of another body,” as the Scientology Press [...]
Jesuits educate the rich about the poor in their network of schools
Posted in Christianity, tagged Boston College, Catholic, Columbia Missourian, developing countries, Georgetown, Heather Harrison, Jesuit, poverty, private school, Society of Jesus on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Newsweek:
Over the past four centuries, the Jesuits have built a formidable global education enterprise. The storied, 19,000-plus-strong Society of Jesus, as the organization is formally known, is today the world’s biggest Roman Catholic male religious order. It is also one of the world’s largest private-school operators, with 2.9 million students, mostly in developing countries. [...]
Tribes object to fighting fire in sacred places
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged California, Columbia Missourian, fire, Heather Harrison, Karuk, Klamath River, Oregon, sweat lodges, Tolowa, tribes, U.S. forest service, Yurok on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From msnbc.com:
Members of the Yurok, Karuk and Tolowa tribes from the Klamath River canyon, located on the Oregon/California border, are worried that the U.S. Forest Service is violating some of their sacred lands by fighting a remote wilderness wildfire rather than letting it burn naturally.
The area is home to many prayer seats or vision quest [...]
