Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage on Wednesday (June 3) in part because faith leaders testified that the measure would not impinge on religious rights, according to V. Gene Robinson, the state’s openly gay Episcopal bishop. When credible Christians, Muslims and Jews advocated for same-sex marriage, it “had a lot of…

WASHINGTON — Not long after 9/11, Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani was working in Pakistan when her friend and housemate, Daniel Pearl, was abducted and killed by Islamic extremists. His death — and the version of Islam that seemed to sanction it — has haunted her ever since. When she returned to her native…

(RNS) The Rev. Thomas Berry, a Passionist monk who made it his life’s work to explore the connection between humans and the earth, died at a retirement community in his native Greensboro, N.C., on Monday (June 1). He was 94. The self-described “geologian” was on the forefront of eco-theological thinking, trying to link religious institutions…

(RNS) Germany saw the ordination of its own Orthodox rabbis on Tuesday (June 2), a first in the more than six decades since the Nazi Holocaust and World War II. Broadcast live on German television, the historic ordination of Zsolt Balla, 30, and Avraham Radbill, 25, signals a slowly reviving German Jewry, which once faced…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners