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Friday, November 11, 2011

The New Episcopal Bishop of D.C.

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Rev. Mariann Budde: 'I'm So Excited to Be Here'

The new spiritual leader of Washington, D.C.’s Episcopal Church is a woman. Rev. Mariann Budde is the ninth Bishop of Washington, and the first woman elected to that post. She joins us in the studio to talk about what the Episcopal Church needs to work on, where it’s headed, and how she hopes to inspire the city’s Episcopal community.

Reverend Mariann Budde, Ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington

The Army's First Hindu Chaplain

Begins at 22 min 30 sec

Five years ago, when Pratima Dharm began her chaplaincy in the U.S. Army, she was endorsed by a Pentecostal Church. Now she has a new sponsor – a Hindu group. But she didn’t convert from Christianity to Hinduism; she’s just returning to her roots, while still embracing her pluralistic background. “I have the Bible next to me, I have the Koran, I have the Jewish Torah,” she says. “I tend to carry those as part of my story.”

Capt. Pratima Dharm, Hindu Chaplain at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test?

Begins at 28 min 24 sec

If you think the Hail Mary is a football move, read on. Though America is the most religious nation in the developed world, when it comes to basic religious knowledge, most Americans can't name the first book of the Bible, or all five major world religions. Stephen Prothero offers a controversial solution: require world religion classes in all public schools. From March 2008.

Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t"

How do YOU stack up? Take Prothero's religious literacy quiz!

Commentary: Spiritual But Not Religious? Please Stop Boring Me

Begins at 48 min 55 sec

If you find God in the sunsets, don’t sit next to Rev. Lillian Daniel on an airplane. No, seriously, she doesn’t want to sit next to you. “On airplanes, I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I am a minister and wants to use the flight time to explain to me that he is ‘spiritual but not religious,’ she says. “Being privately spiritual but not religious just doesn't interest me.”

Rev. Lillian Daniel, senior minister of the First Congregational Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Read her original commentary for The Huffington Post

Web Extra: Personhood in Mississippi

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On November 8th, Mississippi voters defeated a startling proposal to change to their state’s Constitution. Initiative 26 would have defined the start of life as at the moment of conception, when a sperm meets an egg - making an embryo or a fetus a legal person. Among other things, the amendment would have made it impossible to get an abortion in Mississippi. Our resident news analyst reflects on the measure that might have been.

Kevin Eckstrom, editor of Religion News Service

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