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It’s not quite the same thing as the Democratic Party’s snub of the prolife Pennsylvania Gov. William Casey in 1992, but John Kerry’s campaign has broken with tradition by not inviting the host city’s Catholic archbishop to deliver an invocation during this week’s Democratic convention.
Peter Steinfels asked several scholars a bold, even-handed question for his Beliefs column in Saturday’s New York Times: Which one book would you recommend to President Bush and Sen. John Kerry? (Beret tip: Philocrites.)
As noted several times in recent weeks, it is quite natural for traditional forms of Christianity and Islam to collide — both are missionary faiths that seek to convert others. Both faiths claim to be the universal faith for all people in all cultures.
Let me jump in here quickly to respond to Doug’s post on the issue of Jewish Christians, Buddhist Jews and other hard to define, emerging niche spiritualities. For journalists, this is a case in which it is almost impossible to write anything without starting linguistic warfare.
Eric Gorski of The Denver Post has written a finely balanced article about Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney’s latest interest: building unity between Christians who grew up Jewish and those who did not. Gorski uses the phrase “Messianic Jews” repeatedly, and that concept, among others, is at the heart of conflicts between the organizations Jews for Jesus and Jews for Judaism.
NARRAGANSETT — Sitting along a couch in the small office in the back of St. Peter’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Ms. August, 81, Ms. October, 71, and Ms. September, 73, laughed and chatted with the rector yesterday afternoon as they leafed through a handful of photographs.
Relax. I don’t think this wave of “Passion” coverage is going to be anywhere near the size of the last one. Just a few ripples.
United Methodists did an amazing thing during the weekend in choosing William H. Willimon of Duke University as their next bishop in northern Alabama. Willimon, one of the few theologians to devote a book to humor, was jocular and self-deprecating as journalists reported on his appointment.
