Hackers group Anonymous takes down Vatican website: http://t.co/B6lbGAVp
WGN-TV calls doomsday prophecies "an illusion": http://t.co/mv8Gzyw7
RT @graceishuman: Really,? Asking people JUST LEAVING the service how they felt about it? Tacky, tacky, inappropriate
Whitney Houston's funeral service really took the world to church. Love Pastor Winans' honesty, very moving.
#teacher ? Here are appropriate responses to situations with your Jehovah's Witness student: http://t.co/A6UfqcgH
#Teachers: Want to know why your Jehovah's Witness student won't say the pledge and how to respond? http://t.co/EIdlgDwW
3 common questions teachers ask about their Jehovah's Witness students: http://t.co/kPTygb8r
3 common questions teachers ask about their Jehovah's Witness students: http://t.co/0y3R4WZV
Hey @BlackArtistNews check out this sculptor, this will blow your mind. My mind seriously can't take this in. http://t.co/I4VgB8ni
What do reporters have to say about balance in religion? Watch the video from last night's panel: http://t.co/jutu8oJ9
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Archive for November 2008
The New York Times ran a great article today about Walking the Walk, a high school program that brings together students of different faiths to help them learn about each other.
Check out the article about Walking the Walk here.
Stay tuned to ReligionTranscends for coverage of Guru Nanak’s birthday (a Sikh celebration).
Did you see the video of the monks fighting?
This past weekend, fighting broke out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site tradition calls the place of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. The monks who were fighting were Greek Orthodox and Armenian.
According to BBC News, Armenians were preparing to celebrate the Feast of the Cross, an annual remembrance of an event in the 4th century when Armenians believe the cross used to crucify Christ was uncovered. Greeks feared that if the Armenians used the space, the Greeks would no longer be able to lay claim to the site of Jesus’s tomb, according to the Associated Press.
They stood their ground. Armenians protested. Greeks said they had a right to go where they pleased in the church. Punches were thrown. Fighting ensued. Monks pulled down decorations around the church. And eventually two people were arrested.
In the end, it came down to a fight over space. Welcome to Jerusalem.
Watch the whole video here.
America has elected an African-American president.
Will cardinals elect an African-American pope next?
Gregory is originally from Chicago (like Obama) and became the first black man to oversee the U.S. Bishops Conference in 2001.
Rumor had it that, after the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, the cardinals would elect a new pope from Africa. Instead, they elected Ratzinger, the German-born cardinal who became Pope Benedict XVI.
When Benedict passes on, will the conclave choose a black man to replace him? Gregory thinks it could happen, since the conclave picks the person who is best for the job and does not base its decision on race.
As you surely know, the United States elected Barack Obama as its new president yesterday. The talk is mainly centered around his status as the first African-American elected to the role and how Obama will handle U.S. affairs.
ReligionTranscends wonders: How will Obama’s presidency be perceived by various religious folk? What do conservative evangelical Christians think? What about Jews? Muslims?
The pope sent his well wishes to the president-elect earlier today.
According to exit polls, 78% of Jewish voters voted for Obama, despite some Jewish voters’ worries about Obama’s ideas about Israel.
“Not because he won but because it meant that President George W. Bush, who is regarded as a bloodsucker, and his clique, were gone,” he said.
On the other hand, some evangelical Christians worry that Obama may be “an ultra-liberal dressed up in moderate, soothing garb.”
What do you think? Coming from your religious background (or lack of a religion, if it may be so), how do you feel about Obama’s election?