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November 2nd, 2010
02:21 PM ET
Designers named for 'Touchdown Jesus' statue replacement The old 'Touchdown Jesus' statue. The "Touchdown Jesus" statue outside Solid Rock Church in Monroe was hit by lightning and burned to the ground earlier this year. Now a new statue is in the works, one with a different look and name. The church has hired local sculptor Tom Tsuchiya and the company Glass Hand LLC to design and build the sculpture. The church is calling the statue "Come Unto Me." "It's a pretty big project, it's probably one of the biggest things we have ever done," said Steve Brauch, owner of Glass Hand. 
November 2nd, 2010
02:15 PM ET
Atlanta pastor, in response to suits, denies sex allegationsIn responses to four suits accusing him of coercing young men into sexual relationships, prominent Georgia pastor Eddie Long denies the claims and asks that the suits be dismissed. "The plaintiff's claims of sexual misconduct are not true," each of the four responses filed by Long's attorneys says. The responses, each about 30 pages, offer a point-by-point response to each of the allegations and claims in the lawsuits. The documents were posted on the website of CNN affiliate WSB. Four members of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - Anthony Flagg, 21; Maurice Robinson, 20; Jamal Parris, 23; and Spencer LeGrande, 22 - filed suit against Long and the 25,000-member megachurch in September, claiming he used his position as their spiritual counselor to pressure them into sexual relationships.
November 2nd, 2010
08:00 AM ET
My Take: Feminist theology and feminism, R.I.P.
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN Yesterday my students and I discussed Mary Daly, the Boston College professor, feminist theologian, and professional provocateur who died earlier this year. Judging by our discussion, feminist theology has died too, and feminism with it. Our reading for the day was a selection from Daly’s second book, Beyond God the Father (1973), which decries a sexist cycle that has patriarchal cultures creating patriarchal divinities who then sanctify in turn the patriarchal cultures that gave them birth. “If God is male,” Daly writes, “then the male is God.” 
November 2nd, 2010
07:00 AM ET
My Take: Why religious leaders are so scandal prone
By Mark Barger Elliott, Special to CNN The clergy have been under the glare of the news media’s klieg lights recently and the sight has been jarring to say the least. For Americans, the most high-profile example of unwanted media attention is of course Rev. Eddie Long, pastor of a 25,000-member Atlanta church, though he vigorously denies the allegations against him. Some recently scandalized European religious leaders have gotten less attention in the U.S.
November 2nd, 2010
06:00 AM ET
Sacred Spaces: Inside a Buddhist fire rite ceremonyEditor's Note: In this occasional series, the Belief Blog looks inside worship spaces from faiths around the world. CNN's Jim Castel brings us this report from Redwood City, California with a look at a Buddhist fire rite ceremony. For the last several years Shinnyo-en Buddhists have conducted the Saisho Homa fire rite ceremony in Taiwan, Paris and Berlin. This year, for the first time, the rite was brought to Shinnyo-en’s head temple in Redwood City, California. A homa ceremony is Buddhist prayer ceremony. Saisho is a reference to the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha. |
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Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.
Editor's Note: Mark Barger Elliott is Senior Pastor of Mayflower Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and author of 