Posts Tagged ‘book’
Arts & Culture
British hotel replaces Bibles with soft-porn book, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
A hotel in the United Kingdom has replaced in-room Gideon Bibles with the soft-porn best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey.
Arts & Culture
Bible museum planned for Washington, D.C.
A large-scale Bible museum will open in Washington, D.C., within four years, say planners who have been touring the world with portions of their collection.
News
Methodists uphold policy that calls homosexuality incompatible with Christian teaching
Despite emotional protests and fierce lobbying from gay rights groups, United Methodists voted on Thursday to maintain their denomination’s stance that the practice of homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching.”
Features
Anglican world marks 350 years of the Book of Common Prayer
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "All the deceits of the world, the flesh and the devil." "Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest."
Shakespeare? The King James Bible? Close -- the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, the liturgic...
Arts & Culture
Interview: Why Ross Douthat thinks we’re ‘a nation of heretics’
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.''
Arts & Culture
Book Review: How to read the Bible through the Jesus lens
Michael Williams in this new book How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens has created an incredibly valuable tool for the church. I highly doubt that you will have many people wondering what this particular book is about. ...
Arts & Culture
Why we’re hungry for ‘The Hunger Games’
(RNS) "The Hunger Games" has sold 26 million copies and is the first young-adult book to sell a million copies on Kindle. When it was released in theaters on March 23, the film version broke box office records for a new non-se...
Arts & Culture
Pope Benedict’s brother speaks candidly about famous brother in new book
Brotherly love is not uncommon, but the more than 80-year-old bond between Monsignor Georg Ratzinger and his brother Joseph, Pope Benedict XVI, is of one of the rarest and most fascinating fraternal relationships ever written a...
Commentary
Why Ash Wednesday belongs out of the church and out on the streets
There is something decidedly public about Ash Wednesday. Walking around all day with a gash of grey ash across one’s forehead — this is among the most visible Christian things I do each year. This is a rare day when I can...
Arts & Culture
Christianity–More than apple pie and patriotism: An interview with Ronnie McBrayer
Jesus. America. Apple pie. Guns. Whoever the Republican candidate is at the moment. Based on the prevailing stereotype of the prototypical American Christian, it seems as if you don’t love all of the above, you haven’t any hope...