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Tuesday August 11, 2009
RNB Roundup: Religion News Roundup: Bible verses + Burgers; Islamic sect pulls gold teeth; Woodstock spirituality
Today’s Religion News Roundup asks whether Woodstock was a spiritual experience, notes that an Islamic sect has decided gold and silver teeth are unislamic, and looks at a well-known church that has banned six of its members.Also, an answer to the pressing question, What’s behind the Bible verses on the In-N-Out burger wrappers?
Wednesday July 22, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s RNB Religion News Roundup: lawyers hope Tony Alamo won’t speak; cult leader Alan Bushey faces sentencing; No deal on rape charge for man whose marriage to underage sect member led to conviction of FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs. Also: While providing marriage counseling, two associate pastors concealed that a third pastor was having an affair with a man’s wife. Then: A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a charge against an avowed white supremacist accused of threatening a juror.
Friday July 17, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s RNB Religion News Roundup includes pagan police officers, and offensive garden gnome, and the Virgin Mary as an exorcist. Then there are ‘White Sikhs,’ Freemasons, and a Muslim wannabe suicide bomber.
Also: a look a expensive yoga retreats, and a study that shows the downsides of positive thinking.
Plus lots of other religion and ethics-related stuff…
Thursday June 4, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s Religion News Roundup brings you soothsayers, fortune tellers, astrologers, a ‘vampire’, and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. With the flim-flam out of the way, there’s also room for the Samaritan (“the smallest sect in the world”), China’s whining about the Dalai Lama, and some religion/abortion issues.
Wednesday May 27, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s Religion News Roundup, two different items about the combination of spirituality with eroticism. Also, the Buddhisation of the Netherlands, plus Is This Your Brain on God? Further: What is Dan Brown’s agenda?
Plus some RNB Twittered items you may have missed.
Friday May 15, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s edition of RNB’s Religion News Roundup includes two items about witchcraft, one somewhat funny, and one seriously disturbing. The funny item involves the believe in Tanzania that by use of witchcraft one can transport crops from one farm to another (i.e. stealing in order to save oneself lots of hard work).
The serious item comes from Nigeria, where hundreds of children falsely accused of witchcraft have been killed.
There are also news items about faith healing, a link to resources for religion reporters covering the on-going torture debacle, and more…
Monday May 11, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s RNB Roundup includes anything from bulletproof turbans for Sikh police to the increasing popularity of Quidditch (of Harry Potter fame). Priest Alberto Cutié says he may marry the woman he was photographed cavorting with on a Miami Beach.
The tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan has an interesting approach to its economy: Gross National Happiness.
Also, a lady gave her $4.2-billion inheritance to a Feng Shui master. Her family is not amused.
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Tuesday May 5, 2009
RNB Roundup:
Today’s RNB Religion News Roundup includes: a guy helping Christians reconcile God with science; Londoners caught in the financial crisis turn to psychics (forgetting they, too, did not predict the economic turmoil); a Druid trying to save Stonehenge from government interference; atheists trying to expel God from the Irish constitution; a digitally recreated Vatican, and an appearance by the Virgin Mary. Plus: some religion news links you missed if you’re not subscribed to our Twitter stream.
Friday April 24, 2009
Aum Shinrikyo • Falun Gong • FLDS • Polygamy • RNB Roundup • Scientology • Witchcraft:
The RNB Religion News Roundup for Friday, Apr. 24, 2009 includes items about Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, Korean cult leader Jeong Myeong-Seok, the continuing popularity of Aum Shrinrikyo’s jailed cult leader, and China’s on-going ban on Falun Gong. Also: • A US state must pay benefits to the wife of a Jehovah’s Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion • A killer turned pastor upsets his victim’s son • Nigerian preacher speaks out against witch hunts • Vampire story gets demoted…
Plus: what do you see? Pareidolia?
Monday April 20, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s RNB Religion News Roundup, find out what Bono is doing in church, why the Dalai Lama is visiting an organization linked to a ‘cult’, and why Sony is in trouble with devout Hindus. A former Guantanamo explains why he has become a Muslim.
Wizards in Russia are trying to conjure up a trade union. And more religion-related news…
Tuesday April 7, 2009
RNB Roundup: Religion News Roundup: “I’m perfect, You’re Doomed,” Elves, the Shroud of Turin, and cult killer art
Today’s Religion News Roundup includes stories about elves, a ship operated by a religious sect, mosques facing the wrong direction, and mosques possibly spied upon by the FBI.Also: “I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed.” Yes, it’s about Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Further, the definitive book on the Columbine High School massacre. Germany’s main Neo-Nazi party faces collapse, and according to the Vatican the Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin.
Tuesday March 31, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s RNB religion news roundup: a vampire-free school; another look at a Scientology cult compound; Question: do the FLDS polygamists in Texas live on a ‘ranch’ or a ‘compound’. With ‘brainwashing’ and ‘deprogramming’ in the news (1 Mind Ministries), we highlight some cult-related terminology; Free e-book: 50 Nobel Laureates And Other Great Scientists Who Believe In God.
Ethics: Spanish court weighs inquiry on torture for 6 Bush-era officials; probably not related, but a study says that the ‘eye for an eye’ approach does not pay.
The Church Around The Corner (where we find our offbeat religion news) includes a Baptist preacher who wants to again run for the organization he bilked.
And that’s not all…
Friday March 27, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s Religion News Roundup: • Robert Schuller Twitters. • Why Scientologists are targeting Haiti. • Jailed cult leader Wayne Bent plans to appeal his conviction. • The Anti-Christ vs. Honduras. Also: • The state of Virigina is ready for bioterrorism. • Jehovah’s Witnesses swamp small town. • Man who shot dead pastor at church says he is not guilty. • A Raelian bishop alleges religious discrimination. • Transcendental Meditation couldn’t save hotel.
• Jailed: Muslim pilots who prayed instead of taking emergency measures.
• Plug and Pray? Nope. Pay and Pray. Plus: • How Mormons try and explain a failed prophecy. • Heresy hunters hunted. And more…
Thursday February 12, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In today’s RNB Roundup: Geert Wilders and more religion-motivated political correctness in England • What happened between a Mormon film maker and a lesbian priest • Church on fire (but not the right kind) • Religious Broadcasters (including the give-me-money-so-God-will-give-you-money-to-give-to-me scammers) tightening their belts • Church’s faith healing advertisement branded ‘irresponsible’ • The never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed to fail. • A source guide to the Bahá’í FaithPlus: Holocaust denier Richard Williamson on the subjects of Pink Floyd, women’s trousers and ‘The Sound of Music’
Friday January 30, 2009
RNB Roundup:
In this editon of RNB Roundup: Scientology: death by devotion • Ted Haggard: Can a fallen pastor ever redeem himself? • Are Christians stingy? • Haunted hospital calls in exorcist • The National Religious Campaign Against Torture says its work is not over • Preacher Sues Bill Maher. Plus: God may not care who wins, but players in Super Bowl care a lot about God • More…
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