Thursday's News & Ideas
National Prayer Breakfast draws controversy
The New York Times: Ethics group asks President Obama and Congressional leaders to stay away from the breakfast because of sponsors, The Fellowship.
Washington Post: Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say
Washington Post: Religious leaders worry that Obama's faith council is for show
Archbishop of York claims tolerance in UK has 'negative virtue'
The (London) Telegraph: Archbishop says government is trying to “remove religion from public life” in the name of tolerance.
N.Y. church's move to Georgia: 'Preservation by relocation'?
USA Today: Plan to move an 800-seat, century-old basilica from Buffalo to Norcross, Ga.,
could be a model for saving closed churches in the Northeast.
'Baptism in the Holy Spirit'
Washington Times: Nearly 50 years ago, an Episcopal priest shocked his listeners when he announced he had received a personal Pentecost.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries partners with United Theological Seminary to offer advanced degree
Christian News Wire: Collaborative program to provide a practical, hands-on, biblically based doctor of ministry degree in preaching and media.
The Spark
Wired out of creation
A recent report boggles the mind: children from eight to 18 spend an average of seven-and-a-half hours a day plugged into an electronic device. Richard Hague, a teacher for 40 years at a Catholic high school in Cincinnati, wonders about the impact of such a lifestyle. In a commentary at Religion & Ethics newsweekly, Hague says the uncritical adoption of more and more technology is leaving a generation cut off from the material world, slipping further away from the incarnation. “I think of this as potentially one of the most significant withdrawals of human beings from the natural world in the history of our species.”
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