Our Sexual Ethics Interactive has been re-dubbed The Moral Compass. I’m out in the field with my trusty fellow News21 camerapersons asking all the tough Sex Eth questions for our online video supplements; for example, how does YOUR religion feel about masturbation, divorce, premarital sex and dancin’ in the streets? Ok, I left off the dancin’ in the streets part. So far it’s been a wonderful education. I’ve learned about “Virtue Ethics” based on [see entire entry...]

In case folks missed it yesterday there was a good article on a Catholic priest in Alameda who is leaving his church two years after coming out as gay. The church was not rocked by the revelation, but I imagine it’s a rare experience outside the Bay Area? After attending the Episcopal mass today in the Mission, SF I am starting to really understand how churches, even within their own denominations, are divided along [see entire entry...]

Tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida are paid roughly 45 cents for every 32 pound bucket they pick. On average, they earn about $10,000 per year. A few miles down the road in Ave Maria, on land once farmed for tomatoes, you can buy a house with a swimming pool for nearly $500,000.
 
When I ask Pascual, a migrant worker in Immokalee, if [see entire entry...]

Promoting adolescents’ rights to “affirm their own sexual and gender identity and orientation” may not be what you’d expect from a group of theologians. But that’s just one of the progressive messages on sex and faith in an “Open Letter to Religious Leaders on Adolescent Sexuality,” put out this week by the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing.
The open letter –written [see entire entry...]

Not something we’re working on, but the role of faith in public schools was something we discussed in class. A lawsuit has been filed against a West Texas school district for a Bible course that was created last year. This is also the school that was written about in “Friday Night Lights” - the football fanatic story.
Interestingly, the course was created by a private group that pushes for Bible curriculum in public schools. Here’s the [see entire entry...]

So there’s churches that have launched online confessions?
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Thanks to Al’s Morning Meeting reader Theresa Moore at WTSP-TV in Tampa for sending me this one. The Miami Herald ran a piece about churches that have launched online confessionals. Some of the sites like IveScrewedUp.com, NotProud.com, DailyConfession.com, GroupHug.us and MySecret.tv are extremely popular. The story says:
A woman kept her secret for nearly two decades.
Finally ready to confess, she turned not to a minister, but to [see entire entry...]

Check’em out! I think we can get plenty of ideas from some of these sites for how to make our stories interactive. BBC takes the charts for online news….

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Are you kidding me? This is a total profile waiting to happen and no it’s not because it’s Guate!
Antichrist‘ to preach in Guatemala
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By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 20, 4:10 PM ET
GUATEMALA CITY - He calls himself the Antichrist, wears the number 666 tattooed on his arm and claims a following of 2 million people.
The Central American country has banned the leader of the Florida-based Growing in Grace church, arguing he [see entire entry...]