Adelle M. Banks
Howard Divinity School returns sacred manuscript to Ethiopian monastery
A delegation from Howard University Divinity School has returned an ancient manuscript to an Ethiopian monastery after scholars discovered its place of origin.
...Ed Dobson, onetime Moral Majority leader, dies at 65
Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year “living like Jesus,” died December 26 after 15 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis....
Marvin McMickle and James Forbes Jr. speak at first-ever cross-racial gathering to tackle racism
Marvin McMickle, president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, was one of the speakers at a conference that brought together more than 300 clergy and community leaders to address race rela...
Black church group holds first-ever cross-racial gathering to tackle racism
c. 2015 Religion News Service
...Carolyn Winfrey Gillette pens verses on gun violence to church hymn tunes
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette creates “sung prayers” for a problem that seems difficult to solve while also spurring people to end gun violence.
...Report puts $160 billion price tag on U.S. hunger
Hunger and food insecurity are so widespread in the United States that they add $160 billion to national health-care spending, according to a Christian advocacy group.
...Michael Curry installed as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Declaring that “God has work for us to do,” Bishop Michael Curry was installed as presiding bishop of the 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church November 1 at the Washington National Cathedral.
...'Chaplains' documentary goes to battlefield, prison
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) They can be found on the battlefield, at a chicken-processing plant, and behind the locked gates of a prison.
...Oprah's Belief series, a seven-day exploration of faith
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) Reshma Thakkar was raised Hindu and felt guilty about questioning her faith.
...U.S., Canadian denominations sign full communion agreement
Two of North America’s most liberal Protestant church groups have agreed to recognize each other’s members, ministers, and sacraments.
...Evangelical group issues ethics code for congregations
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) Give pastors vacations.
Open the books for periodic financial reviews.
...As Francis arrives in D.C., fans of all stripes welcome, watch, and wait
c. 2015 Religion News Service
...Southern Baptist missions to lay off up to 800 people
The Southern Baptist Convention will cut as many as 800 employees from its overseas missions agency to make up for significant shortfalls in revenue, officials announced August 27.
...A year after Ferguson, a practical theology emerges around Black Lives Matter
c. 2015 Religion News Service
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