Religion and Values

Published
October 22, 2011

Decree settles religious bias case

An Illinois woman had to quit her job to make a Muslim hajj, and then successfully sued the school district.
Published
October 15, 2011

Religion Calendar

Today Book, bake and rummage sale, 8 a.m. to noon, West Kennebunk United Methodist Church, 160 Alfred Road. Rummage sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cressey Road United Methodist Church, off Route 25, Gorham. “Fair Trade” open house and sale of handmade items, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 988 Roosevelt Trail (Route […]
Published
October 15, 2011

Religion Dispatches

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Christian music group allowed to expel gay student Officials at the state’s flagship university say a Christian singing group had the latitude to expel a member who identified himself as gay. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said the decision by the Christian a cappella group Psalm 100 did not […]
Published
October 15, 2011

Catholic bishop accused of cover-up

Robert Finn and the Kansas City (Mo.) Diocese face charges of failing to report suspected child sex abuse.
Published
October 15, 2011

Reflections: Spirit of people is what makes a worship space

My mother once said she could probably experience the sacred, a spirit of worship, in the any religious tradition’s worship space. I was surprised, as she was so staunchly Methodist, but something about that declaration stayed with me. I was reminded of it at 19, thoroughly agnostic, stunned to silence by the pillars and mysterious […]

Published
October 8, 2011

Religion Calendar

Today Rummage sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, Forest and Pleasant avenues, Portland. Arts and crafts sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport. Held rain or shine. Maine Fellowship of Christian Writers, conference with author Susan Page Davis as the featured speaker, 9 a.m. […]
Published
October 8, 2011

Reflections: Say ‘Amen!’ to putting common good at center of life

We are betting on a losing horse if we believe that increased consumer spending is the answer to America’s financial crisis. In these times of population explosion, ecological crisis and their partner in death, worldwide famine; when the rich in this country are getting richer and the poor poorer; when the U.S. military budget, at […]
Published
October 8, 2011

Church marks anti-apartheid icon’s 80th

'You're radical like the Christ,' Bono tells Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the celebration.
Published
October 8, 2011

Religion Dispatches

KEZAR FALLS N.H. woman appointed pastor of Riverside UMC Pastor Shannon Keeney was appointed to Riverside United Methodist Church in Kezar Falls by Bishop Peter Weaver, resident bishop of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church. Keeney is from Fremont, N.H. She graduated from Hiram (Ohio) College and Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, […]
Published
October 8, 2011

Court weighs Georgia’s ban on guns in church

A suit brought by a church and a gun rights group says the state law violates constitutional freedoms.

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