Today’s Las Vegas Sun describes the strong religious element in the U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Sharron Angle, who is seeking to unseat Senate majority leader Harry Reid. Angle has described her efforts as a calling from God.
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Nevada Senate Candidate Sees Her Run As Religious Mission
President Obama is gaining support among evangelical leaders who want a path to legalization for illegal immigrants.
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Evangelicals Are Joining Obama on Immigration Overhaul
As previously reported , in the Canadian provice of British Columbia the attorney general is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to rule on whether the province’s anti-polygamy law is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Today’s Vancouver Sun reports that a 45-page research paper by Canadian scholar Joseph Henrich has been filed with the court.
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Scholar’s Report Outlines To Canadian Court The Harms of Polygamy
In Bollier v. Austin Gurdwara Sahib, Inc ., (TX App., July 9, 2010), a Texas appellate court held that building of a Sikh Temple violated a subdivision’s restrictive covenant that limited land use to single family dwellings
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Sikh Temple Must Be Removed For Violation of Restrictive Covenant
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The Obama administration is offering incentives to Kenya to approve a controversial new constitution that would legalize abortion for the first time, promising that passage will “allow money to flow” into the nation’s coffers, including U.S. aid
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Obama pushing abortion on Kenya
List of 14 updates to canon law of the Roman Catholic Church labels pedophilia, ordaining women as “grave delicts.”
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Revised Vatican law labels sex abuse, female priests as crimes
My Take: Hinduism's caste problem, out in the open CNN (blog) “There is no caste in Hinduism ,” he told me, and no evidence would convince him otherwise. Not the fact that all my Hindu friends know precisely what caste …
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My Take: Hinduism’s caste problem, out in the open – CNN (blog)
In “Hannah’s Child,” by Stanley Hauerwas, the author thanks Alonzo McDonald for his financing. This pairing of donor and recipient may seem odd to many.
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From One Benefactor, Diverse Seeds in Theology
Bishop Maria Jepsen said she had resigned from her post in northern Germany amid accusations that she failed to thoroughly investigate reports of a sexually abusive pastor.
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Germany: First Female Elected Lutheran Bishop Quits in Handling of Abuse Complaint
Editor’s note from Paul: After reading this, also check out the companion piece reflecting further on this post, over at Tenured Radical . Janine Giordano Drake It all started this past May with an email composed by an undergraduate student in “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought,” a course offered in the Religious Studies department at the University of Illinois. The student forwarded to the department chair an email about utilitarianism and Natural Law that his instructor, Catholic theologian Kenneth Howell, sent to the class during the term
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Teaching Sexuality and Religion