Stories tagged with: culture digest

• CULTURE DIGEST: Princeton scholar warns of threats from Iran on Aug. 22

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Aug. 22 could be an ominous date for Israelis and Americans based on its significance this year as one of Islam’s most revered holy days, according to a Princeton professor who says Iran may be planning “cataclysmic events” to prepare the way for Shiite Muslims’ awaited messiah. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Watching wrestling may lead teens to violence, study says; YMCAs debate Christian identity

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Violence on television has a tendency to affect what teenagers consider socially acceptable behavior, as researchers have said for years, but now a study has found a direct correlation between teens who watch wrestling on TV and those who demonstrate violent behaviors. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Mel Gibson ‘flawed messenger of Gospel,’ pastor says; tow truck driver witnesses to Darth Vader

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--As much of the nation reacts to actor Mel Gibson’s recent arrest on drunken driving charges and subsequent derogatory comments about Jews, a Southern Baptist pastor says Gibson’s behavior should not taint the message of the major motion picture he produced two years ago, “The Passion of The Christ.” Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: U.S. House votes to preserve Mount Soledad cross; welfare reform stretches to family ties; Sam Brownback among presidential longshots

  by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Congressional action to protect San Diego's Mount Soledad cross now adds one more front to the battle over the monument constructed in 1954 as a tribute to veterans of the Korean War. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Secularization of universities hurts society, prof says; Congress cracks down on child pornography

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The replacement of religion with secularization in American universities has left students unable to make sense of the world in which they live, a retired history professor from the University of Florida says in a new book. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Sioux leaders ponder beer blockade; judge says DVDs can’t be edited to block obscene content

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--About 4 million cans of beer are sold each year at four stores in Whiteclay, Neb., a border town just a few hundred feet outside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Most of the beer is sold to Indians, and it has caused so much trouble that leaders of the Oglala Sioux tribe are considering a beer blockade. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Money does not mean happiness, study says; Barack Obama calls on evangelicals to assimilate

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The common belief that people who make more money are happier is mostly an illusion, according to a study appearing in the June 30 issue of the journal “Science.” Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: South Carolina schools now can ‘critically analyze’ evolution; ...

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Starting this fall, biology teachers in South Carolina will be instructed to “summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory,” after the state’s education leaders unanimously voted to amend curriculum standards. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Election of new Episcopal presiding bishop could split Anglicans; ...

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Controversy has escalated in the Episcopal Church after the denomination that three years ago ordained an openly homosexual bishop chose a woman as its national leader -- a move that observers predict could signal a major global split within the larger Anglican Communion. Read More

• CULTURE DIGEST: Republicans stir as ’08 election approaches; use of antipsychotic drugs skyrockets among children; ...

  by Erin Roach, posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Potential candidates for the Republican nominee for president in 2008 are stirring quietly -- or not-so-quietly -- to secure the best shot at winning, and several such figures are increasingly willing to connect themselves to evangelicals. Read More