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Show : So ee Babe WORLD VIEW = The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGION Saturday, February and governments for the right to display the five Olympic rings. For years, the rings havebeencodefor “Show methe money City comparethe fabled Mormon ethic with the flap over the 2002 games, as if there were a real scandal brewing. Compiled by PeggyFletcher Stack AVOIDING USURY A project to enable Muslims to obtain home mort ith. I don’t necessarily fault that. comesto business, money is honey When it federal agentsin Utah are investigatingt exchange of money betweentwo private committees. public, or Evenif someof the funds are d publicly, the Salt Lake ing with another private organization (the guys should get a medal. They brought Salt Lake Olympic Committee) over play- homethe bacon. _go. It doesn’t riseto the level of high crime or misdemeanor. they want to pretend they are above it all that’s pretty small stuff as federal crimes ed Bank of Kuwait. Under the ball, and do. A private outfit is allowed to woo another with money. Make nomistake, the Olympics is business. An international gang of gamesmen has finction between loans to those in need and loans which are in effect a kind of business transaction. A similar process of re- interpretation enabled medieval Christian theologians from the 13th century onward to find ays of sidestepping the ban on {isury which Christianity had in- herited from Judaism. — Religion News Service @ Continued from C-1 The only people culpable, it seems, individual church Websites are lifted up to be seen on the Net,” said HOW spokesman Chris Thyberg. LDS WebSite Logs Big Load OfHits Daily tween 200,000 to 250,000.” The most frequently visited sectionsof the site are an online archive of General Conference addresses and “Fam- space hasjust begun. The Ventu- PASTOR FACESTRIAL ra, Calif.-based firm's national . Bishop C. Joseph Sprague,re- survey of 620 teen-agers found 4 percentof them currently use the Internet for spiritual or religious purposes, and 16 percent plan ligious leader of United Methodist Church in northern Illi- nois, said Wednesday that the Rev. GregDell, a popular Chica- gopastor,will go on trial March 25 on charges he violated churchlaw by performing samesex union ceremonies. It will be the second trial of a United Methodist pastor for violating church rules barring perfor- mance of same-sex unions. In the first, the Rev. JimmyCreech was narrowly acquitted. — Methodist News Service o ABSTAIN FOR AIDS The Vatican called on smokers Mondayto abstain for a day and donate their savings to the fight against AIDS. The Rev. Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care within the next five years to use the Web as a substitute for con- ventional church-going. Additionally, Barna reported that 12 percentof 1,006 adults interviewed already use the Internet for religious purposes. Pastors view that development with a mixture of acceptance and alarm. “It's very conceivable we can reach a whole segment of our s ciety which would otherwise n er darken the door of a church, said EV Free Assistant Pastor Carl Moeller, who oversees his church’s 4-year-old Web page. EV Free’s site (http://sley- free.org) has already taken steps to lure that cyber-congregation. In addition to text on doctrine, programs and events standard to many churchsites, EV Free offers e-mail to pastoral staff and Inter- Workers, made the appeal in letters sent to every conference of Roman Catholic bishops. netbroadcastsof the church’sservices. — Religion NewsService tion that the 600 to 700 people attending EV Free services week- ‘The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston says snappy TV advertis- ing is helping combat flat or declining enrollment in someofits parochial schools, The ads and a Breet mail campaign have been franagedthe past two years by Cape Cod’s HALOIntegrated Ma keting, which bills itself as the spirited agency.” It seems to be working. Last year the number of teens taking the placementtest for Catholic high schools rose by 10 percent. havecalled for a ban on Sunday morning team sports, The Cran- berry Church Council, repr senting various denominations, sentprotest letters to coaches of community football, baseball and soccer teams in Butler County, asking them to ban practice before noon on Sun — The Associated Press The Rev. Jim Schaedler, pastor (460 W. future, to connect to people.” nomenon as an extension of his ministry, rather than a threat to regular Sundayattendance. Metro's Web site (http://www.metrochurch.org) reflects Schaedler’s vision, offer- Zen Practice Lets Drummers Focus the Mind Taiko drumming is an example of Zen philosophy, said the Rev. Sylvia Behrend in her sermon at First Unitarian that day. “Zen attention is like the sound of water,” Behrend said. “Water only makes sound when it goes over an obstacle, a rough surface. Sometimesit is torrential, like a waterfall, and sometimes like a soft murmur that can only be perceivedbyattentive listening.” Zen s reveal that distine- tions between things areillusion, Behrendsaid. Westerners are uncomfortable in the world of nondistinction For us, paying attention NO MALES ADMITTED Zen, on the other hand, frees the ego fromrationalizing, judging, keeping score,” she said teacher and feminist theologian Without systematic judgment and separation, we are liberated rather than admit two male stu: dents to her class, “Introduction to Feminist Ethics.” Mary Daly. at r-old tenured associate to pay an allow all things to reveal their essence ev n as weare revealed in our essence said she believes women have CHRISTIAN BOOK SALE BOOKS, GIFTS, & VIDEOS 7000 SOUTH 1779 WEST beensocialized to nurse men, a phenomenon which shesaid has class impossible. Daly, the au thor of such controversial books as Beyond God the Father: To attention to everything, we a oe ane "TAX PRO’ 10AM-5PM ward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation and 7 Church and the Second Si has weathered several such dis: putes since she first arrived at in Religion News Service COPY iecessible information aboutthe church,” he said Website went up in June 1997, he was surprised to find his congregation had swelled from the 200 to 300 in Metro’s seats each Sun- to one with a global flavor. I've been a fulltime minister since 1982 andI've never had the contacts with people on a weekly ehad on the Internet,” id. ‘I'mtalking[bye-mail] to peoplefromall over theworld, 10 to 25 a week, and50 to 70 percent of them are outside America Russia, Africa, the Netherlands the Middle East, South America. Morethan a few of those con- tion and online forms to order Christian-related tapes “This has been sort of a revolution. So manyof pastors today who were earlier ‘baby-boom’ tacts have led to commitments to generation are not even using computersyet,” the pastor said. “We jumpedright in on the computer bandwagon.” Christ “A lot of people ask faith-relat- Schaedler said when the Metro — After 10 a long-awaited contemporary ing forumsfor asking himspiritu- Spanish-language version of the Bible ‘The new translation, billed as the Nueva Version Internacional, or NVI, drew onthe expertise of 20Biblescholars from Colombia, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ecuadorandother nations across the Americas “This is theSpanish Bible of the Third Millennium,” said Luciano Jaramillo, executivesecretary of the translation committee. “Here, wehavethefirst Bible evertran lated by evangelical Latin Americans ‘Thetranslation, a million project undertakenbythe International Bible Society, comes at a time when Spanish-language Bible sales are booming intheU ed States, reflecting the incr size of the American Latino mai ket, Broadman and HolmanBible Publishing in Tennessee, for example, has seen its SpanishBible sales explode over the past five years to more than 4 million copiesper year, accordingto sales representative Margo Bradley The NVI edition seeks to de throne the venerable Reina Vale ra, a Spanishtranslation of the Bi ble that is comparable to “its influential English counterpart the King Jamesversion. Theolo gians have long complained that like King James, the language of ReinaValerais archaic. There are about 20 other Span. ish-language translations of the Bible. Many of those have been criticized for paraphrasing so heavily into today’s Spanish that the accuracy of the ancient text has beenlost. Jaramillo saig the NVI strikes a balance by captur- ing the poetry of books like Psalms and Proverbs while re- taining the readability of conversational Spanish. Ata breakfastheld to intreduce morethan 120 Los Angeles evangelical pastors and churchleaders from all denominationsto the new Bible, participants like Pastor Obed Simite praised the NVI as a more effective educational tool ‘s Latino congregation. is exactly what we needsaid Simite of Iglesia Bethel ntecostal churchin Pasadena. “It's the first Bible translated by Latin Americans who understand our language and our customs This is God speakingto us on a level we can comprehend.” mag 2000 2 ed questions, so we feel we're doing a real service in that area with our Website,” Schaedler said The Episcopal Church in Utah \ Hero Within’ Part on ‘anecet to Orphan We Spencer 10:200m ond 4:00pm Service ’> “The (Sp Nee nee FIRST Congreganional Church ¥ Free, Liberal & Democratic Worship, Sunday Schoo! & |The Episcopal Church Welcomes You Great Harvest Family Church “Promoting and developing a sirong focal church with an emph ren and youth” fo sims tas eaCd, Tee: 4 FIRST TARIAN (4 582.867 CHURCH 38sba Worship Services: 9:00 AM AND 11:00 am “Being Born Again” A Community Church “Science, Religion And Unitarianism” Rev. 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Easy Do Chicken Delight SOUTH VALLEY UNIT ARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY me Ue lL) ateaise at the Jesuit school the unfortunate result of ren: dering a coed version of the From its tentative beginnings, the church's Website ai questions, a prayer request sec- Secetcasta pret means dividing, classifying, boxing, analyzing,” Behrendsaid A prominent Boston College Century Dr., Murray). also sees the cyber-church phe- eer Cela t has optedfor a leave of absence with their earthly families. : 8 S. “Member Resources links provide both church members to sections on Utah pioneer and the public with accurate, us another way, nowand in the he insisted. “But it does provide Oo suburban Pittsburgh churches and affiliated organizations that they can live eternally Wesee the Internet as an of Metro Christian Fellowship ANGEL painstaking years of translating fromancient Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, Latin Americanscholars and Los Angeles pastors gathered Thursdayin nearby Baldwin Park forthe nationwidelaunchof “Together additional communications mediumwhich wewill use to Tee i Hata ir is Fe et ee Sed aay Rr esic @ Continued from C-1 instead of athletics, some 20 LOS languages, Bills said. — TheAssociated Press SUNDAY SPORTS BAN Contending that children should be learning about God LOS ANGELES TIMES Forever,” explaining, among is currently available in 19 personal computers on Sundays. “It will never replace the person-to-person interaction at all,” will soon desert the pewsfortheir ‘SPIRITED AGENCY’ BY MARGARET RAMIREZ Visitors also may order a free copy of the chureh-pro- Still, Moeller has no expecta- ly at 6515 S. Lion Lane (3110 E.) Oo of the Book of Mormon, and aninvitation — answeraable by checkinga “yes” or “no” box — formissionariesto visit duced videotape, The New Spanish Translation of Bible line orderformforafree copy information. history, conference proceedings, gospel principles and an George Bullardis religion writer at Detroit News.” Write him at 615 W. La fayette, Detroit, MI 48226, or e-mail at bullard@detnews.com. Latin American Scholars Create interactive family guidebook The site also offers an on- has become avalued part of thefaith’s global outreach and Indeed, a recent Barna Re- church’s incursion into cyber- picking asite to play the games of witfer Newsstoriesout ofSalt Lake City contrast scandal to the Mormon work ethic simply because the churchis a metaphor ily History” or genealogical Other sections players to juice Members enjoyed grubbing for money but other things, Mormons’ beliefs search Group studyindicates the a ketball and hockey Olympic committees are not government agencies. To call recent events bribes is to @ Continued from C-1 “Think of us as a singular community comprised of the myriad plural communities which are the Christian congregations . the lampstand on which the lights of to So thenext time you hear of a *Mormon scandal,” give the church a break tionsarefree to induce each other to play Utah Ministries Take the Lord’s Word to the Web se the wheels” attendanceand revenue TheInternational guys want it both ways. That's business to business, not a big public policy question. Private organiza- fers ownership of the property to him so the home buyer is paying rent, not interest. In developing the program, organizers looked to the Orthodox Jewish community which drawsa dis- federal officials to might be a few Olympic officials who took favors and didn't report it as income. But ding the taking or payingof interest on loans has been erpays the bankrent, but at the endof the term the banktrans- pioneer Brigham Young's plan to tribe ing to bea holybastion of amateur competition, even whilefeaturing millionairebas- ing a bunch of games. Manzil Ijara, or “house leasing,” home purchase plan, the bank buys a house and then leasesit to the purchaserfor an agreed term — say 25 years. During that period the purchas- Washington, To be fair, you have to con cede some Republicans were partisan, t¢ Onthe faceof it, you can't have partisan splits without two intractable sides. One wire story out of Salt Lake City brought up an 1861 story about Mc allow polygamy in Utah. That's different than “bribing” some over-the-hill jock cad vielatng Teeon IsnnEHST ES LOUdGAGE he Wade, It des. who ert. That’s no more fair than the blame Democrats for partisan bickering in use the wordin a general, not legal, sense Like bribing a kid to eat Brussels sprouts. Or my paying off a technician toinstall a satellitedish. I pay; I get something back Anymoral probiemsits with theInterna tional Olympic Committee, not Salt Lake andcertainly not Mormons. Foryears, the Switzerland-basedgrouphas beenpretend- But for thelife of me, | don’t know why Give me a break First, there's no serious public or church issue here. A private organization (the International Olympic Committee) was deal. for thecity, built by pioneers on COMMENTARY long beengouging businesses, TV networks BYGEORGE BULLARD THE DETROIT NEWS the then all-male college 1966 c3 Non-Sectarian Business Dealings, Not LDS ChurchInvolvement, Led to GamesScandal Half the Olympicstories outof Salt Lake days. i 1999 “A New Beginning” T UNITED METHODIST H! FIRST UNITED METHODIST 203 S. 200 E. 328-8726 “Impossible Dream” Rev. Terri Hubbard Guest Preacher Worship Service 11:00 am. Chiat Care Sunday School 930 am. 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