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Ah, December — the month of office parties, hearing “Jingle Bell Rock” in airports and reading incessant Top 10 lists. Time is ahead of the pack this year, rolling out 50 lists, and David Van Biema does the honors on the year’s top religion stories.
Tell me, you dedicated readers of religion news, can you imagine anything worse than seeing the following pairs of words in the same story — “Fred Phelps” and “Christmas wars.”
The ancient and formerly sizable religion of Zoroastrianism is facing dwindling numbers. Followers of the prophet Zarathustra — and devotees of the divine being Ahura Mazda — are worried about the survival of their Persian religion.
Guess what? The GOP has a new hero and his name is Anh “Joseph” Cao, who just defeated a veteran, but apparently ethically challenged, Democratic congressman from New Orleans. The Washington Post reports:
Only days after the fall of the Soviet Union, I had a chance to talk with several veteran Russian Orthodox priests about the future of their church in Russia.
I’m always amazed at how few people know that the Salvation Army is a denomination. People always think of it as a charity, which it is. But it’s also a denomination. Internally organized like a military service, the church has a reputation for serving the poor and destitute. And there’s the red kettle bell-ringing campaign that is ubiquitous around this time of year.
As the popular vote in California relating to how marriage is defined continues to meet with disapproval from Hollywood and others, the Associated Press has an article about where to place the blame for how the vote went down.
This is one of those weeks when one of my more personal posts here at GetReligion evolved into a rare first-person column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
