Religious Faith / Diversity - period ended 2.1.2007

Religious Faith/Youth/Crime and Punishment/Hainstock, Eric/Argument for a juvenile trial heard - Hainstock's defenders .../Reedsburg Times Press/Reedsburg/WI/USA/31-Jan-07//He said he knows Hainstock's pastor at the Valton Friends Church and has been exchanging letters with him with the pastor's encouragement. ...

Religious Faith/Un-programmed/Silence//Spiritual Perspectives Where Have all the Christians Gone?/Gallup Independent/Gallup/NM/USA/28-Jan-07//At the un-programmed Quaker meeting, you won't find any clergy or anybody else serving as intermediaries to the Holy Spirit, just some "good-men and good-women" in silent contemplation waiting for the Divinely-inspired, "inner voice" to inspire us directly. ...

Religious Faith/Temperance//Council approves hotel's liquor license despite pastor's protest/Lamar Daily News/Lamar/CO/USA/30-Jan-07//Faith Friends Church Pastor Galan Burnett stood before the Lamar City Council to voice his objections to the approval of the New Hotel and Restaurant Liquor ...

Religious Faith/Silence///Williams event reflective, light/Berkshire Eagle/Pittsfield/MA/USA/16-Jan-07//Martin Luther King Jr. had the air more of a Quaker meeting, or simple conversation of the sort you would expect on a rainy day on a college campus. ...

Religious Faith/Silence///Making the Best of It/Time/New York/NY/USA/25-Nov-06//The article presents an update on the life of Terry Waite on the 15th anniversary of his release by Islamic Jihad kidnappers after being held for 1,763 days. At the time of his kidnapping in 1987, he was an advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he reports that he is no longer a part of the Anglican Church and attends Quaker services instead.

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Politics and Economics/The religious test/USA Today/New York/NY/USA/22-Jan-07//…Kennedy captured that spirit well in 1960 when he said: "While this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been — and may someday be again — a Jew, or a Quaker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist."

Or even a Mormon. ….

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Politics and Economics/Romney must tackle religion question head-on — as JFK did/Deseret News/Salt Lake City/UT/USA/28-Jan-07//... whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been — and may someday be again — a Jew, or a Quaker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist." ...

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Peace Activities/Interfaith service for peace/Louisville Courier-Journal/Louisville/KY/USA/16-Jan-07//Speaking at the service were a rabbi, a Muslim, an Arab, a Hindu, a Tibetan Monk, an American Indian, a Baha'i, a Catholic, an Episcopalian, a Quaker and a ...

Religious Faith/Raised-a-Quaker//Atheists talk about their truth/Greeley Tribune/Greeley/CO/USA/27-Jan-07//Growing up with a Quaker mother and an Episcopalian father, Mark Rogers' family was also religious. In his 20s, he stopped attending church because he felt ...

Religious Faith/Church-State/ACLU/Lobbyist/Prayer starts off Senate session/South Bend Tribune/South Bend/IN/USA/30-Jan-07/AP/The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit in 2005 on behalf of four people, including a Quaker lobbyist.

Religious Diversity/Prayer///Village Kicks Off 75th Anniversary With Interfaith Prayer Service/Westbury Times/Westbury/NY/USA/25-Jan-07//... Our Lady of Hope RC Church, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Religious Society of Friends, St. Brigid RC Church, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, United Methodist ...

Religious Diversity/Peace Activities/Mindfulness/Kern, Alexander/Brandeis chaplains launch vigil for peace/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/30-Jan-07//"This is not a time for debate, diatribe, or even discourse," Protestant chaplain Alexander Kern said of the planned weekly vigil. "It is a time for mindfulness, for holding up the promise of peace."

Kern, a Quaker, said the idea for the vigil grew out of a decision by the four chaplains last autumn to think together about issues of war and peace. . ...

Religious Diversity/Peace Activities/Inland Society of Friends/Freidel, Trudy/Interfaith Festival for Peace Feb. 11/Highland Community News/Highland/CA/USA/31-Jan-07//The planning committee for the festival includes Trudy Freidel of the Inland Society of Friends (Quaker), Rabbi Hillel Cohn of Congregation Emanu El and a ...