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No contest this time — the most entertaining religion news this week has been the saga of the Ohio church’s giant “King of Kings” statue, nicknamed “Touchdown Jesus.” The 62-foot structure was completely destroyed by a lightning strike Monday (an “act of God” that begat a thousand or so headlines); church officials vow that he will rise again.…

Among all the usual religion reporting on interfaith conflicts or cooperation, two intrafaith disputes are making headlines from their respective “base” countries: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protest in Israel over the religious integration of a school for girls in a West Bank settlement, and stunned reactions over the Archbishop of Caterbury’s treatment of Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori…

At the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination, representatives passed a resolution expressing — as expected, based on Southern Baptist Theological Seminary dean Russell D. Moore’s previous statements — dismay over BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. They also affirmed opposition to the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy against openly gay…

President Obama has picked the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, a Baptist pastor from the Bronx — she’s previously been described by The New York Times as “Billy Graham and Oprah rolled into one” — as his nominee to fill the position of Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. He also named two other appointees to the U.S. Commission…
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