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Religious Connections: November 2010
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Southern Baptist minister, elders guilty of not reporting abuse. Failing to report child abuse is a crime. For which there is no justifiable church exemption. And as Christa Brown brought to our attention. The consequences of failure to report fell on the heads of a New Hampshire Southern Baptist pastor and two elders last week. In New Hampshire, [at Valley Christian Church. The Union leader reported. Campbell Univ...
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Religious Connections: The Rev. Owens' NOM astroturf ruse
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Thursday, August 2, 2012. The Rev. Owens' NOM astroturf ruse. When the Rev. William Owens. Called for President Obama to recant his stand in favor of same-sex, marriage, CNN. The New York Post, the Christian Post. Not taken in was Lisa Miller. Of the Washington Post's "On Faith" column. She wrote. For the National Organization for Marriage. A Southern Poverty Law Center hate group. He's simply attempting to carry out the NOM wedge strategy.
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Religious Connections: Abuse at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana (and elsewhere)
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Tuesday, August 7, 2012. Abuse at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana (and elsewhere). Is right to assert that Jack Schapp was fired as pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, over sexual "abuse" of a teenage girl. Technically, Schapp was fired for adultery. And the FBI is investigating whether the girl was the legal age of consent. Between Schapp and his victim made consent effectively and in some states legally impossible.
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Religious Connections: Half a century since prescient Catholic clerical abuse warning
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Friday, August 3, 2012. Half a century since prescient Catholic clerical abuse warning. Half a century ago. Gerald Michael Cushing Fitzgerald. The Catholic priest who co-founded the Congregation of the Society of the Paraclete. Informed the Holy See of sweeping clerical sex abuse problems in the U.S. and recommended a solution:. Fitzgerald's view of abusers. Was as relentless as the malady they suffer. In a letter to Archbishop James Byrne.
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Religious Connections: Homophobia go the way of slavery in matters of faith?
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Tuesday, August 7, 2012. Homophobia go the way of slavery in matters of faith? The measured tone of Spokane, Washington, Bishop Blase Cupich's letter. On the same-sex marriage referendum attracted the attention of Bold Faith Type. He stood firm on church teachings but, to his considerable credit, also said:. At Spiritual Politics, Mark Silk gently suggests. That the bishop take an additional step. After all, he writes, slavery was. Thank you ...
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Religious Connections: Is clerical sexual abuse coded into the modern church's authority?
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News and commentary on Religion, especially Southern religion. Monday, August 6, 2012. Is clerical sexual abuse coded into the modern churchs authority? At The Immanent Frame. Mark Jordan of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis writes. Turn the question around: imagine what you would have to change in present claims for church language to prevent the violent misapplication of old metaphors for God’s love. Is a part of Immanent Frame's compelling series. Last ...
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southernconnections: October 2008
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Christian Science Monitor's new model for digital survival. Tuesday the Christian Science Monitor. Offered other nonprofit, church-sponsored newspapers one business and publication path. From death on paper to digital survival. That in April, 2009, it will save millions in printing/circulation costs by becoming the first national newspaper to discard daily print publication in favor of continuously updated online publication. Currently, the Monitor prints a 20-page. Read the ...
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southernconnections: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Beauty and the noxious weed. A Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Feeding on Musk Thistle. Flowers across the fence from an unmowed horse pasture between William B. Umstead State Park. And the North Carolina Museum of Art. He may have eaten tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera. Leaves in the nearby forest, as my Grandmother Memommy (Jackson) Frink explained to me when I was a child in her garden on the Honey Hill Road in Columbus County, learning the names of butterflies. And sho...
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southernconnections: December 2007
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Friday, December 07, 2007. How do we duck the questions? Let us count the ways . WSJcom’s Kara Swisher maintains her poise in this interview with Facebook’s Owen Van Natta. If you listen, ear cocked for answers that fail to address the question asked, the interview is both enlightening and amusing:. I was regrettably humorless in my response to Steve Outing's smiling introduction. To the same video. He offered a emoticon, for heaven's sake, and I still didn't get it. But you do, I am sure. Forgive me if ...
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southernconnections: February 2008
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Thursday, February 21, 2008. Just two old men, talking to the lunar eclipse. My next-door neighbor Steve and I watched the total lunar eclipse. Together in downtown Raleigh last night. Actually, I was trying to catch glimpses of it through the low-hanging clouds and Steve came tapping up the sidewalk with his red-and-white-striped cane. So we just naturally started talking about why I was out there. A song my elder son once enjoyed was on earworm. For unspoken reasons, others paused to join us in marveli...
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