Tag: CHURCH

Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer walls" have been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse in Australia, where ...

A new senior minister was recently installed at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn... via cell phone. On the day of his installation ceremony, Rev. Dr. Patrick T. O'Neill found himself in the emergency room with a broken toe. When the ceremony began at 5:00pm, Rev. O'Neill was still hospitalized, so Lee Pardee, president of the congregation's Board of Trustees, called O'Neill ...

Want to find Jesus? Just grab a sniper rifle and some plasma grenades: all over the country, churches are using the recently-released Halo 3 to draw new recruits. And they're drawing a lot of flack for it (no pun intended). The New York Times spoke to various church leaders, parents, "religious ethicists," and Master Chief-lovin' kids about the issue. The debate essentially boils down to ...

Everyone's gotta change with the times, including religious faiths, and we're not talking about same-sex marriage here. We're talking about plastic. Cash has been on the outs with the American public for a while now. Some Americans don't even bother to carry any at this point, and churches are trying to keep pace. Many now accept credit cards or automatic bank transfers for donations. Dr. Marty ...