Super Bowl Sunday is a holy day of sorts for the tens of millions of Americans who will watch the big game – at least as many as will attend actual religious services that day. ReligionLink has resources for reporters covering the links between worship on Sunday morning and the spectacle on Sunday evening.
Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.
The Rev. Billy Graham turns 93 on Nov. 7, but still manages to meet with major public figures on occasion and releases periodic reflections on his life and faith. Indeed, though Graham is infirm and in virtual seclusion in his mountaintop home in North Carolina, his stature and legacy seem to grow as he ages.
Jesus is bigger than Justin Bieber? Christians would say that’s true, of course. But when a Facebook page on Jesus outranks the teen idol, then the wider culture begins to take notice.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops met in June in Seattle to revise policies approved nearly a decade ago in response to the clergy sexual-abuse crisis. Many argue that recent developments show the bishops have even more work to do.
The death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a former pathologist who helped dozens of terminally ill people die with a suicide machine, has renewed a national debate on end-of-life issues that never went away completely, even after Kevorkian was sentenced to prison in 1999.
Natural disasters and man-made catastrophes, ongoing wars and a troubled economy – for many people, notably certain Christians, these are signs that the end of the world is at hand. One apocalyptic preacher has set the date of Christ’s return at May 21, 2011. Others scoff, but such beliefs persist, even when prophecies fail.
This year marks four centuries since the King James Version of the Bible was published, in May 1611, and throughout the year essays and sermons are celebrating what is considered the classic version of Scripture in the English language. Yet new translations still keep coming. Is the KJV the most popular Bible no one reads?
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