BELIEF BLOG

Only at The Washington Times: Julia Duin blogs on religion.

• Washington National Cathedral faces more layoffs

  By Julia Duin — Published May 23, 2010 Comments

  According to one of the Episcopal Church's top investigators, the Washington National Cathedral is in its fourth round of layoffs.

• Funny contemporary church parody

  By Julia Duin — Published May 13, 2010 Comments

  I've got to applaud this video of the typical 20-something church that's making the rounds

• Ken Starr @ Baylor

  By Julia Duin — Published May 10, 2010 Comments

  Soon the man best known for spearheading the case for Bill Clinton's impeachment will take over as president of the nation's largest Baptist university.

• Gay Lutheran pastors reinstated

  By Julia Duin — Published May 4, 2010 Comments

    Pastors Bradley Schmeling and Darin Easler, a same-sex pastoral couple from Atlanta, have been restored to the roster of ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Both had been removed from that roster for being in a committed, same-gender relationship.  

• Chinese forcibly sterilize 10,000 people

  By Julia Duin — Published April 29, 2010 Comments

  China's "one child" policy continues with thousands of forced sterilizations this month in Guangdong.

• Franklin Graham disinvited

  By Julia Duin — Published April 22, 2010 Comments

  The honorary chairman for the National Day of Prayer has been disinvited from the Pentagon because of his position on Islam.

• Archbishop Gomez finally gets his due

  By Julia Duin — Published April 6, 2010 Comments

  Passed over for the leadership of the Houston archdiocese in 2007, San Antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez will get to be a cardinal.

• Baghdad prayer patrol founder dies

  By Julia Duin — Published April 4, 2010 Comments

  Wayne Dillard, a missionary who got thousands to pray for the U.S. armed forces overseas, died Saturday.

• Good Friday, the pope and his preacher

  By Julia Duin — Published April 2, 2010 Comments

  Words spoken by the papal preacher mirror sentiment elsewhere in the Catholic world

• Sikh officer completes basic training

  By Julia Duin — Published March 30, 2010 Comments

  At Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, a Sikh recruit makes it through basic training for the first time in two decades.

• Soulforce on the road again

  By Julia Duin — Published March 29, 2010 Comments

  The gay rights group is in its fourth year of showing up uninvited at Christian college campuses.

• Hateful calls, Part 2

  By Julia Duin — Published March 25, 2010 Comments

  Operation Rescue says the hate flows both ways.

• The latest on clergy sex abuse

  By Julia Duin — Published March 23, 2010 Comments

  The Catholic bishops' annual report doesn't make the headlines like it used to.

• Nancy Pelosi invokes the 'wrong' St. Joseph

  By Julia Duin — Published March 19, 2010 Comments

  The House Speaker needs to improve her knowledge of Catholic feast days,

• Sayonara to the president's faith-based council

  By Julia Duin — Published March 9, 2010 Comments

  The term is up for first group of 25 religious and nonprofit leaders serving on the president's faith-based council.