Interfaith Religious News Service

March 21, 2008, 11:23PM
Professor let go over Bible limits on women teaching
By ANABELLE GARAY
Associated Press 
DALLAS — Leaders of a prominent Southern Baptist seminary who believe women are biblically forbidden from teaching men were within their rights when they told a female professor to leave, a federal judge has ruled.

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From the Los Angeles Times
Common Tables brings strangers of all faiths together for dinner and discourse. No topic is off-limits.
By Stephanie Simon
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 18, 2008
CASTLE ROCK, COLO. — The four couples were just settling into small talk over appetizers when Kenneth Holloman cleared his throat.
“Would the group permit me to ask an […]

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The Chinese government’s heavy crackdown on the largest anti-China protest in decades has drawn international condemnation, threatening the success of its highly-anticipated Beijing Olympics.
Sun, Mar. 23, 2008 Posted: 12:07:20 PM EST
The Chinese government’s heavy crackdown on the largest anti-China protest in decades has drawn international condemnation, threatening the success of its highly-anticipated Beijing Olympics.
On Saturday, […]

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Melissa Etheridge
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/03/imagine_theres.html
The word brings up so many different memories. I am a child of the Midwest and I was raised with a little help from the United Methodist Church. My parents felt it was important to indoctrinate their children into some church even though it had long ago stopped being a place for worship for […]

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Taking Christ out of Christianity
Avant garde pastor teaches a new Christianity where the way you live is more important than beliefs
by MICHAEL VALPY  MARCH 22, 2008
That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today - Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto’s West Hill United Church as it will in […]

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JERUSALEM (AFP) — Christian pilgrims from around the world on Sunday flocked to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem’s Old City where many believe Jesus was resurrected after his crucifixion 2,000 years ago.
Thousands of faithful filled every nook and cranny of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a cavernous labyrinth of chapels and crypts built on the […]

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Be Not Afraid, He is Risen
An Easter Reflection by Rev. Robert Johnnene OFD
Mission Saints Sergius and Bacchus
www.missionstsergius.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EverlastingLoveOfChristMinistry
Alleluia, Alleluia “This is the Day the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad” (Psalm 118:24). “Do not be Afraid, You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified, He is not here, He has risen” […]

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Father, Forgive them for they know not what they do!
A Reflection for Good Friday by Rev. Robert Johnnene OFA
Mission Saints Sergius and Bacchus
www.missionstsergius.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EverlastingLoveOfChristMinistry
“We Adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the World” these words we say during the Stations of the Cross are a powerful affirmation […]

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Lent A Time of Responding to the Needs of Others.
A Reflection for Holy Week by Rev. Robert Johnnene OFA, Mission Sts. Sergius & Bacchus
www.missionstsergius.org
On Thursday Pope Benedict wrote: “In the Lenten period, the Church makes it her duty to propose some specific tasks that accompany the faithful concretely in this process of interior renewal: these […]

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