Bob CollinsIt was such a sweet story when KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert, who has a habit of finding them, told the tale of Greg Thomas, who restored a declining church in Montgomery, Minn. He was fighting cancer and, the story goes, he wanted to fix up St. John’s church when he stopped to pray. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Religion
The must-read story of the day is NPR reporter Asma Khalid’s, an Indiana native who signed on to cover the presidential campaign. Read more →
In the aftermath of the election, the time appears to be right to try to roll back perceived gains of the last few decades and now Minnesota’s Human Rights Act is in the crosshairs. Read more →
Filmmaker Joshua Seftel told a CBS Sunday Morning audience today that when he was young, the other kids threw pennies at him because he was Jewish.
That’s one of the reasons he created the documentary series, ‘The Secret Life of Muslims’, he says. Read more →
Amaiya Zafar, 16, a devout Muslim from Oakdale, Minn., was disqualified before she had a chance to fight for the championship at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships in Kissimmee, Fla., the Washington Post reports.
She wears a hijab underneath her protective headgear when she boxes and rules are rules.
And sportsmanship is sportsmanship as Aliyah Charbonier proved to the rulemakers.
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Like any 4th grade boy, Jalue Dorje enjoys soccer, swimming and Pokemon cards. But unlike most 9-year-olds, he is believed to be — and confirmed by the Dalai Lama himself — the reincarnation of an eminent senior lama who died nine years ago. Read more →
It might be a bit more difficult to be a good Catholic if you’ve dreamed of having your cremated remains scattered to the wind in some idyllic location. Read more →
A crowd of mostly white, mostly Christian residents of Detroit Lakes wanted nothing to do with an anti-Muslim speaker who disrupted a ‘Meet Your Muslim Neighbors’ night in the city this week. Read more →
An artist’s proposal to build a labyrinth in Delano as part of a public arts project is on hold for now after city leaders raised concern that it has religious overtones. Read more →
Hobby Lobby is an arts and crafts store that caters to a Christian clientele and it makes no apologies for doing so.
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A La Crosse, Wis., church is shutting down its ‘tent ministry’ after its insurance company refused to provide coverage to the church that’s pitched tents on its lawn for the last year. Read more →
In Spencer, Iowa, a 26-year-old man in a faith-based treatment program was talked out of taking medications by two pastors he was friendly with.
But a few days after entering a program, he told one of them that he wasn’t feeling right and that he was suicidal.
Rev. Nick Hanges told him it would pass.
A few days later, Hanges found the man — Alex Jacobsen — in a pool of blood. He had cut his own throat. Then he saved his life.
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‘Stop talking about the music,’ activist, author, and commentator Van Jones said on CNN last week, urging people to look past the music if they wanted to understand Prince.
And so the Los Angeles Times did in a piece looking at the singer’s religion. Read more →
Afton officials have done something that a lot of politicians have failed at in the nation recently: It set a welcoming tone for Muslims.
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It’s a charming story out of Winona where a police officer helped out a girl whose bike was stolen, but it’s also got an element to it similar to the story last week in Indiana where a police officer turned a traffic stop into a proselytizing session of sorts when he asked the scofflaw whether she’d been saved. Read more →