Tag: Religious News Service
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Church or Beer? Americans on Twitter
by Jack Rakosky “The bloggers at Floating Sheep examined all geotagged tweets sent within the continental US between June 22 and June 28 (about 10 million in total and extracted all tweets containing the word “church” (17,686 tweets of which half originated on Sunday) or “beer” (14,405 tweets which are much more evenly distributed throughout…
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Why Ash Wednesday belongs out of the church and out on the street
This year, I will be joining many Episcopal priests in taking the public witness of Ash Wednesday one step further. On Wednesday, my colleague Catherine Caimano and I will put on cassocks and surplices, and go to a corner near Duke University Hospital with small containers of ashes and copies of a litany of repentance…
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Religious art: fig leaf or full frontal?
Pope Benedict XVI recently praised the use of nudity in the 16th-century masterpiece, “The Last Judgment,” which dominates an entire wall behind the altar in the famed Sistine Chapel. “The bodies painted by Michelangelo are filled with light, life and splendor.“He wanted to show that our bodies contain a mystery: within them the spirit is…
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Who has more brains?
Mainline Protestants seem to have larger brains than born-again Christians, Roman Catholics, and the religiously unaffiliated.