By Denise Jewell Gee
- NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Updated: 06/29/08 7:41 AM
LEWISTON — Members of the Tu Hieu Buddhist Temple and Cultural Center will give visitors to the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University today a taste of traditional foods commonly used on altars in Vietnam.
In a recent column, I tried to set out the two routes people of faith must choose between: 1) There are many paths up the same mountain or 2) My way or the highway. Since then, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published a survey of what Americans actually believe, and guess what? Many Paths beat out My Way. Seventy percent of those surveyed believe that “many religions can lead to eternal life.” Even among evangelicals, the majority of My Way folks, 57 percent say belief in Jesus is great but not essential for salvation.
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
- WASHINGTON POST Updated: 06/24/08 6:51 AM
WASHINGTON — More than 90 percent of Americans — including one in five people who say they are atheists — believe in God or a universal power, and more than 50 percent pray at least once a day, according to results of a poll released Monday that takes an in-depth look at Americans’ religious beliefs.
Q: I’m a Jewish woman recently married to a Catholic man. This is not our first marriage; we’re both in our 50s and raised our families in our own faiths. We had an interfaith wedding ceremony, with both a minister and a rabbi officiating. We totally support each other’s religious beliefs and attend services in both temple and church.
By Denise Jewell Gee
- NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Updated: 06/08/08 6:52 AM
RANSOMVILLE — For 50 years, the women of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Rosary Altar Society have honored the Virgin Mary through the recitation of the rosary and have tended to the church sanctuary.
Q: I’m working through the passage in Malachi that talks about God hating Esau and loving Jacob. Of course, in Christian texts, you have Jesus using similar language (if you don’t hate your father and mother, you’re not worthy of me). Exactly how should I understand “hate” in this context? How is this Hebraism meant to be understood? I poured over the Midrash’s dealings with the Genesis account of Jacob and Esau and didn’t really get anything satisfying. Help! — J.Price
