Religion and Values

Goodbye to a survivor April 25, 2008 | Leave a comment   (Photo by Steve Sisney, THE OKLAHOMAN) Oklahoma lost a living treasure today with the death of Holocaust survivor Manya Kornblit of Ponca City. I first met Manya Kornblit in 2005, when I interviewed her for a story about the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.... Read More

Golden tickets? April 14, 2008 I’m a romantic at heart and Scott Williams of Crofton, Md.,  recently made my day. According to a Capital News Story distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, Williams is frantically searching for someone who will give him two tickets to Thursday’s papal Mass at Nationals Park in... Read More

Park of Hope April 04, 2008 On Saturday, more than 50 volunteers from LifeChurch.tv, Crossings Community Church and the WISH program at the University of Central Oklahoma will converge on Hope Crossing, Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity’s first-ever neighborhood of Habitat homes at NE 83 and Kelley. The volunteers are to help... Read More

Pope poll March 29, 2008   As he prepares for his upcoming visit to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI might be interested to know that many Americans see him in a positive light. By a ratio of four and a half to one (58 percent to 13 percent), people surveyed during a recent poll said that they had a favorable or very... Read More

Makeover idea gains some fans March 20, 2008 An earlier posting about a series of extreme Hollywood makeover figurines depicting a “Christ-like” figure doing everyday tasks captured the attention of several people. The day the posting ran on Page 2 along with a picture of one of the figurines of the “Christ-like” figure wearing jeans... Read More

Sin-sational list getting longer? March 20, 2008 Any whisper coming from the Vatican about any particular subject might as well be shouted from the rooftops. If the communique gets twisted or misinterpreted, there can be all sorts of reports made on the issue before it all gets sorted out. Such was the case when a Vatican official recently gave... Read More

Extreme makeover: Jesus edition March 05, 2008  The idea of Jesus getting a so-called makeover is probably irreverant to some. Most artwork and figurines depict Jesus in the traditional robes of His day, but a Los Angeles native, Eric Dyson has changed all that. He’s come up with We Are Fishermen, a collection of “Christ-like”... Read More

Is anyone cradle-Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian ... any more? February 29, 2008 I’ve met many “cradle-Baptists” in my time as religion editor. Yep, I’ve also met plenty of people who were raised as Roman Catholics and who still adhere to the faith traditions of their youth. However, a survey released this week said those folks still dedicated to the faith traditions of... Read More

Are you a fan of rump-shaking videos? February 26, 2008 Does that post title pack enough of a provocative punch? Probably not considering that a lot of rump-shaking is going on these days in music videos and it’s nothing new — we’ve all been there and done that. Well even if you are not a fan of certain music videos which blare out curse words and demean... Read More