Prayers are suspended at single-family home converted to a mosque without the necessary permits or approvals, after complaints from neighbours.
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The Fixer: City closes mosque over bylaw offences
Bishop Bill Atwood, AC-NA and Anglican Church of Kenya Suffragan Bishop for International Affairs, has written the “message” for the weekly American Anglican Council email newsletter . He had this to say about some churches in the “global south” and why they were not at the Global South Encounter #4 in Singapore. He cites several different uses of the term “global south.” He then says: ” The third way that the term “Global South” is used is a doctrinal one.
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Atwood insults Global South Provinces.
South Asia Mail Hinduism is a way of life Gaston Gazette Hinduism is not attributable to one founder — in other words, it is not based on the wisdom and teachings of one founder.
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Hinduism is a way of life – Gaston Gazette
The most poignant moment of that dreadful day in Rochdale was when Gillian Duffy asked the Sky reporter exactly what the Prime Minister had said about her in his car. You could see from her beaming expectation that she’d counted on a “marvellous woman!” at the very least.
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How dare you diss Mrs Duffy? That’s my aunt
When I covered Barack Obama’s campaign trail, I was struck by the incredible political activity and energy on the web.
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The internet election that never happened
Two weeks after I came in here I was able to turn my head enough to see the clock — and it said 1.30.
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Ventilator, pneumonia, wheelchair . . . then?
Sei Shonagon is my favourite tenth-century Japanese author. Well, anyway, take it from me: her Pillow Book is a genuine delight. I first encountered it — the musings and the gossip of a lady of the court — when I was covering the World Cup in Japan for this newspaper eight years ago.
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The joys of spring I’d miss, I’ve got a little list
Reuters is definitely my favorite source for international religious news. But this story out of Srinagar, India, could use some help. Headlined “ Visitors banned from Kashmir’s Jesus shrine ,” it tells about a local Muslim fight over a shrine.
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Resurrection? Ascension? What?
A Delaware Superior Court this week decided four cases involving jurisdiction over lawsuits claiming sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy. In Tell v.
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Delaware Court Dismisses Abuse Suits Against Out-of-State Dioceses and Parish On Due Process Grounds
Paul Harvey In ” Higher Times in the Bible Bel t,” John Schmalzbauer considers why historians have not been discussing Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age . Part of it has to do with the relative lack of social history in the work, of the kind that has most interested American religious historians of late. Of the work, Jon Butler has noted the lack of attention to the “experiences of ordinary people.” Butler draws on a deep knowledge of colonial American religion, noting that eighteenth-century observers found a combination of belief and unbelief.
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Charles Taylor’s Secular Age and the American Zodiac