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Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire Gene Robinson, who will deliver the invocation at the Lincoln Memorial inaugural event on January 18, talked during the campaign last May with RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY managing editor Kim Lawton about endorsing political candidates … More
The notoriously tough maximum security Sing Sing Prison in New York State is a forbidding place, not where you would expect to find a program offering an accredited master’s degree in professional studies in religion. The course is sponsored by the New York Theological Seminary, and it’s been at Sing Sing for a quarter of a century. More
COMMENTARY Rabbi Jack Moline is the rabbi at Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia: There is an old joke about a group of tourists taken prisoner by a guerilla group in a distant country. The leader of the gang tells … More
BOOK REVIEW Poet as Prophet: The Religious Whitman and His Disciples by David E. Anderson The link between religion and poetry has largely been lost to the popular mind in the Western world, especially in the United States. Even the … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We take our annual look ahead with the help of Kim Lawton of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, John Allen, home from his beat covering the Vatican for National Catholic Reporter, and E.J. Dionne, a columnist with The … More
A look back at religious leaders and others who died in 2008.
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We look back now at 2008 with the help of Kim Lawton of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY; Roland Martin, a CNN commentator who joins us from Chicago; and E.J. Dionne, a columnist for The Washington Post and … More
KIM LAWTON: It’s a longstanding Mexican-American Christmas tradition called Las Posadas. In a procession, parishioners reenact Joseph and Mary’s search for lodging in Bethlehem. They knock, but they’re told there’s no room in the inn. Here in Antioch, California, an … More
KIM LAWTON: It’s the season of Santa Claus, and it seems he’s everywhere. Children anxiously await the arrival of Santa who is, of course, bearing gifts. But some Christians are worried that most of those children, and their parents as … More
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is asking a range of religious leaders what they most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration. Watch Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, general secretary of the Reformed Church in America; Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold … More
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