Religion Dispatches
…Felipe Sanchez-Paris, who he later married. Sanchez-Paris died in July. Charles is survived by five children, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled at 2 p.m. Jan. 11 at St. Gregory of Nysaa Episcopal Church, 500 DeHaro St., in San Francisco….
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…rder. Becoming God Sai Baba was born as Sathyanarayana Raju on November 23, 1926 in Puttaparthi. In 1940, after recovering from seizures caused by a scorpion bite, his character transformed, and he claimed to be an incarnation of the turn of the century Muslim saint Shirdi Sai Baba. He renounced all normal social relationships and performed miracles that quickly attracted large crowds. And so Sai Baba became a guru. In 1963 Sai Baba disclosed that…
Read More…e likes of Okhlobystin and other radical conservatives. Chaplin, who, as Chairman of the Synodal Committee on Church-Society Relations functions in many respects as the public face of official Orthodoxy, exhibits a pattern of such behavior. He has praised the radical Orthodox activist known as Dmitry Enteo, for example, and even joined with Enteo in a prayer service for the passage of laws against abortion, ‘propaganda of homosexuality,’ and blasp…
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…dily and getting older. To make matters worse, 41 percent of Catholics ages 18-30 could imagine leaving the Catholic Church someday. While 10 percent of millennials still consider themselves to be culturally Catholic, many already have left—most often to join the ranks of “nones.” Young adult Catholics at St. Monica see meeting potential partners as a byproduct rather than the goal of young adult ministry. Millennials’ ambivalence challenges young…
Read More…t reject, the notion that Islam is satanic, as Jones insists, is actually fairly commonplace in anti-Muslim propaganda. Jones’ anti-Muslim activities date back to 2009 in the Jacksonville area, when he and his co-pastor, Wayne Sapp (who burned the Qur’an last week) first posted “Islam is of the devil” signs outside the church, and Sapp’s daughter was suspended from school for wearing a “Islam is of the devil” t-shirt. Jones and Sapp are hardly exe…
Read More…or a Suburban. Yet McCain supplies no wake-up call, no re-awakening of his spirit to explicate his substitution of Sunday affections. He offers no specifications of the kind of Christ that pressed him from a the Book of Common Prayer to the Baptist Faith and Message. Nor, as mentioned above, has he shown the increased piety of the convert. When asked how often he attends church McCain says, “not as often as I should.” When asked whether he has par…
Read More…nvention center hallway was, “Let’s pretend I picked you up from an escort service and we’ll walk over to that table over there together and sit down and chat.” Kirby posted an apology Thursday on his page, acknowledging that “much of what she describes in her account took place, albeit without some of the more sinister intentions many have alluded to.” Kirby’s defenders may likely protest that my framing of the interaction also exhibits “sinister…
Read More…an. Lithuania: Army’s says men who love flowers are gay and unfit for Army service. A report from Eric Rosswood at the New Civil Rights Movement: The Lithuanian army has reintroduced compulsory military draft this year, and randomly selected candidates will have to report to a military recruitment office in order to be screened for suitability for military service. According to the Lithuania Tribune, that screening includes a psychological test th…
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…ith other community organizers collaborated with 2 Chainz to host a church service that focused on local activism and social justice. “The trap” is typically a place where drugs are sold, but has more generally come to mean where people gather or where something is accomplished. Though in recent years, it’s become widely commodified and commercialized, trap culture has often signified a lifestyle of drug dealing, gangbanging, street violence and t…
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…ng how much the Pope’s World Communication Day message echoes themes of the 16th and 17th century Counter Reformation. Largely a response to the provocations of the Continental and English Reformations, the initiating event of the Counter Reformation was the Council of Trent (1545-1563), which affirmed the medieval teachings on the authority of Roman Catholic traditions. As was the case in many previous and subsequent reforms, the Council sought t…
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