Story tips? Concerns about coverage? Questions? Etc.?
If you have any religion story ideas, tips, concerns about the way we’re covering religion ….. feel free to contact me. smercer@forumcomm.com Shane
View ArticleI'll be blogging live from the ELCA Northwestern Minnesota Synod Assembly...
I’ll be blogging right here Friday and Saturday live from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Northwestern Minnesota Synod Assembly. We’re also planning a preview story on the assembly in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
About 1,000 people attend memorial service for Jolicoeur
Just under 1,000 people attended the memorial service this afternoon for Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur. Read the story: www.inforum.com/event/article/id/281806/
View ArticleClik here to view.
700-member Long Prairie, Minn., church votes to leave ELCA
The more than 700-member American Lutheran Church in Long-Prairie, Minn., passed its second and final vote to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Read more:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ELCA press release: Leaders to revise 2010 Churchwide budget and create...
Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will prepare a revised 2010 budget and spending plan for consideration in August, and they will create a plan to restructure the churchwide...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Religion News Service: Mormon influence, imagery runs deep through 'Twilight'
A Religion News Service story looks at Mormon influence and imagery in the "Twilight" movies and novels. The story reads: "The ‘Twilight’ novels and film franchise have religious associations … most...
View ArticleLutheran Church-Missouri Synod delegates vote to continue cooperative work...
Delegates to the national convention of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) in Houston, Texas, voted overwhelmingly Jutoday to continue cooperative work with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Francis Collins, human embryos, evolution, and the sanctity of human life –...
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. - from www.ttf.org R. Albert Mohler Jr. writes in “The Christian Post:” Francis Collins stands at the very summit of the scientific community. He successfully led the...
View ArticleHawley Lutheran Church to vote on leaving ELCA; it will be the congregation’s...
Hawley (Minn.) Lutheran Church, a congregation of more than 1,100 baptized members, could take the first step Sept. 19 toward breaking with its denomination. The congregation has scheduled a “special...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fargo-Moorhead Muslims want new mosque and community center
Imam Sharip-Hashim Hassan leads prayer Monday in Fargo’s Islamic Center. From a story in today’s Forum: As passionate voices continue to wrangle over the planned mosque near the site where the World...
View Article
