The Bushes represent one of the great shifts in American religious identity: A growing tolerance for religious plurality.
Religion
Teaching yoga as exercise doesn’t stretch the Constitution’s ban on government “establishing” a particular religion, a California court ruled last week.
Francis, after saying Mass for thousands of people in a rainy St. Peter’s Square, delivered a mostly somber and grim “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message.
While many churches have adopted a relaxed approach to clothing, many casual dressers will up their game for Easter and other special events.
Christian denominations may disagree on many things. But just about every Christian denomination has, by one name or another and one method or another, a way to participate in the Last Supper.
A congregation who sweated through the broiling Las Vegas summers for two years, sometimes prevented from worshiping because their Zion Holiness Last Trumpet Ministries church was just to hot, finally got a cool wish Thursday — an air conditioner.
Sponsors of the bill in Carson City say outrage and a boycott call following passage of a similar law in Indiana have dampened their desire for legislation seen by many as enabling discrimination.
The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, California televangelist and founder of the television ministry “Hour of Power,” died Thursday, according to his family. He was 88 years old.
Republican lawmakers in Indiana pledged on Monday to clarify a religious freedom bill that was slammed by businesses and activists for sending a message of discrimination against gays after it was passed last week.
It’s all in how you tell it, local rabbis say when it comes to engaging teens in the Passover Seder. The holiday dinner commemorates the Israelites’ liberation and exodus from Egypt where they were slaves. “The Passover story is still the same tale of freedom, but with stories that reflect the times,” suggests Rabbi Malcolm Cohen of Temple Sinai Las Vegas.
Pope Francis will visit President Barack Obama at the White House on September 23 as part of the pontiff’s first visit to the United States.
Kara Tippetts, the Christian blogger and author who begged fellow cancer sufferer Brittany Maynard not to take her own life but let death take its course, died Sunday from breast cancer.
Chinese relic experts claim that a 1,000-year-old mummified monk encased in a Buddha statue was stolen from a village temple in Eastern China in 1995, state media reported.
The archbishop of Naples claimed on Saturday that the dried blood of the city’s patron saint began to turn liquid in an ampoule on Saturday while Pope Francis was in the cathedral where the relic is stored.
Last year, Good Samaritan Lutheran Church added service projects to its Lenten observance. It worked so well, churchgoers are volunteering again this year. “We just decided our catchphrase is, ‘Rather than do church during Lent, let’s be the church,’” the Rev. Don Lorfing, senior pastor, says.
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