“Bible Illuminated: The Book” is a different kind of Bible. For starters, it’s being promoted as a coffee table book or a high-end, design-forward glossy magazine. It includes images of celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Bono and Princess Diana. In a news release, Publisher Illuminated World, a Swedish company, said it set out to make the biblical text more accessible [...]

The Secular Coalition for America and Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers unveiled a new proposal on religious accomodation at a pre-Veterans Day briefing today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The new policy recommendations regarding religious discrimination and accomodation in the U.S. Armed Forces were presented in a memo for President-elect Barack Obama as he [...]

Evangelist Billy Graham celebrates his 90th birthday today. He is to mark this milestone with a private family dinner near his mountainside home outside Asheville, N.C. His son, evangelist Franklin Graham, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show and said the dinner was to include barbeque, a treat his father was especially looking forward to. For the past month, [...]

I promised I’d post more statements and comments from faith leaders and faith-based groups regarding Barack Obama’s election to the U.S. presidency. Here are a few more that have come across the wire or sent via e-mail: The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church congratulated Sen. Barack Obama today on his election as the 44th [...]