A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another such group is on the rise, seeking to restore Hinduism as Nepals state religion, claims a prominent doctor who was a kidnap victim.
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Doctor claims kidnapped by Hindu militant group
Paul Harvey We’re a bit tardy in taking note of this, but for those who haven’t been following, CNN is the latest entrant into the religious blogosphere, with CNN Belief Blog (now added to our blog sideroll under “BlogFavs”). Noted religious historian Stephen Prothero is one of the contributors.
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Belief Blogging, Protestant Liberalism, and Fundamentalist Originalism
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 6: A year after a militant Hindu group came into prominence by engineering a bomb attack on a church in Kathmandu valley that killed three women, another such group is on the rise, seeking to restore Hinduism as Nepal’s state religion, claims a prominent doctor who was a kidnap victim.
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Another Hindu militant group on rise in Nepal?
Peace FM Online and Courthouse News Service report that a lawsuit was filed last Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America against the J. Paul Getty Museum. The suit seeks return of seven illustrated pages, known as the Canon Table, taken from an illuminated Armenian Bible created by Toros Roslin for Constantine I in 1256.
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Armenian Church Sues Getty Museum For Return of Bible Pages
Ephraim Radner is writing a good bit these days, sometimes for editors who take some considerable joy in giving his essays provocative titles, as in the Living Church’s latest posting of his essay titled, “Actions Now Have Consequences.” TLC seems to take some glee in the fact that actions have consequences, but does not seem to think that this has always been the case. But dear friends, actions always have consequences, and we all know that. The snotty title is just that, a poke in the eye
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Radner’s writings of the week.
What do you get when you invite 14 visual artists, a poet and about 50 musicians and dancers to create work informed by faith? A diverse array of ideas, feelings and expression on display at Citadel Square Baptist Church in a Piccolo Spoleto event called “Passing Notion?”
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Artists take a 'Notion' to express beliefs through work, performances
Many people simple called him the “reverend,” which was nice since he hated his famous nickname — the Wizard of Westwood. He was constantly reading his Bible, as well as stacks of other books, which was perfectly natural for a former English teacher who hardly ever missed church. However, try to find a picture of this man reading his Bible.
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Wooden: Faith and fidelity (updated)
(Cross-posted at Juvenile Instructor ) Over at Religion Dispatches, Joanna Brooks has a two-part post asking “Who Says the Tea Party isn’t a Religious Movement?” In challenging Lou Ruprecht’s answer of “no,” Brooks notes that “for the Mormon sector of the movement (including Tea Party icon Glenn Beck), … the Tea Party taps into a powerful and distinctive complex of Mormon beliefs about the divinity of the U.S. Constitution and the last-days role of righteous souls from the Rocky Mountains in saving it from destruction.” It seems to me that Brooks is spot-on in highlighting the religious dimensions of the Tea Party movement in the Jello Belt (that’s the Mormon Corridor in the intermountain West for those unfamiliar).
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The Tea Party as a Religious Movement: A Response
2586 W US 224 :: Tiffin, OH 44883 Contact Information Cindy Kirchner, Search Committee office@christschurchattiffin.org Position Description Christ’s Church at Tiffin has an exciting opportunity for a Youth Minister to use their talents and gifts to impact our students.
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As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, churches and religious organizations along the Louisiana coast are providing food, money and support to parishioners whose livelihoods hang in the balance. Millions of gallons of oil have contaminated the gulf since an oil rig explosion on April 20, bringing the region’s fishing industry to a screeching halt. It has been particularly hard for churches like St.
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Oil spill fuels concern in Gulf Coast churches