You can learn a lot about a family by observing how it handles fights. And Laurie Goodstein’s Sunday New York Times story shows that as the breach between James Dobson and Focus on the Family grows, all parties are keeping quiet and pretending everything is OK. Earlier this year I wrote on coverage by media outlets in Colorado Springs (where Focus and many other evangelical parachurch organizations are headquartered) about the decision by Dobson to launch a competing organization and radio program called “James Dobson on the Family.” Given the prominence of both Dobson and Focus, I was shocked at how few media outlets covered this extraordinary story about a major parachurch founder leaving his organization to start a new organization that does basically the same thing
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Focus’s family squabbles (continued)
Yesterday, President Barack Obama spoke at Washington, D.C.’s Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in remarks that the White House Blog captioned “Martin Luther King and the Challenges of a New Age.” ( Full text ; Excerpts and video of full remarks .) The Church, founded by freed slaves after the Civil War was the site of a 1956 speech by Dr. King titled “The Challenges of a New Age.” As part of his extensive remarks in advance of Martin Luther King Day, President Obama talked about religious faith: Even as Dr.
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Obama Speaks At D.C. Church About Dr. King’s Legacy
Haiti is a very complex, but intense, culture when it comes to religion. Thus, the more time that passes after this killer earthquake, the more journalists will be surrounded by stories linked to the faith of the locals and the faith of those who pour into the country to offer help. The journalists will be surrounded by faith and by painful questions, of course, questions linked to one of the basic stories of the secular Godbeat — “ theodicy .” To cite a great essay by C.S
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Life in Haitian cathedral ruins?
It seems like over the last 10 years or so, I’ve read roughly eleventy-bajillion trend pieces about the confluence of environmentalism and religion. Most of these pieces have been fairly uncritical about or even cheerleading this commingling. So I wasn’t terribly enthused to see this New York Times story, “ Pastors in Northwest Find Focus in ‘Green.’ ” Now I’m from the Northwest.
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Green: Not just a liturgical color
After I broke my leg when I was seven, I remember how painful it was to hobble up and down the steps at church. Before my leg healed, I remember asking my peers to hold one of my crutches so I could get down to a class. It felt quite dramatic, and I can’t imagine the lengths people have to go through if they are in a wheelchair.
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Making wheelchairs sexy
The Church of Scientology yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against Sandy Springs, Georgia, challenging zoning limits the city has imposed on the Church. According to AP , Scientology wanted to add a fourth floor to an office building in the Atlanta suburb, and move the Georgia state headquarters there. Sandy Springs City Council voted to allow the Church to move into the building, but rejected the request that it be able to add an additional floor.
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Scientology Sues Atlanta Suburb Over Zoning Denial
Last April, the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Boulder County, Colorado won its challenge to the county’s denial of its special use application, convincing a jury and the court that the denial violated the substantial burden and unreasonable limitations provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. (See prior posting .) The church sought to expand the buildings on its campus.
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County Assessed Large Attorneys’ Fees and Costs In RLUIPA Case
Vandals threw stones at a Sikh temple, adding to religious tensions over a string of attacks on churches in Muslim-dominated Malaysia. The church attacks – since Friday eight have been hit with firebombs and one with paint – came after a court overturned a Government ban and allowed a Catholic newspaper to use the word “Allah” to refer to God. Some of the Sikh scriptures also use “Allah”.
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Sikhs target of ‘Allah’ attack
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When Vincent Nguyen was a boy in Vietnam, his local church had an old organ that, after war had ravaged the country and the congregation, no one in the parish could play well enough for Sunday worship.
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Vincent Nguyen to become Canada’s first bishop of Asian descent