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Archive: Elizabeth Tenety
Divine Impulses: Maria Shriver
California's first lady, Maria Shriver, considers herself "a Catholic in good standing," but in an interview with On Faith, said that she disagrees with the church's teachings on divorce, homosexuality and abortion rights. On abortion, she said "I often talk...
By Elizabeth Tenety | November 14, 2008; 09:05 AM ET | Comments (8)
Divine Impulses: Joel and Victoria Osteen
As co-pastors of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Joel and Victoria Osteen preside over the largest church in the United States. Their ministry reaches seven million viewers weekly and is broadcast in more than 100 countries. Victoria and Joel...
By Elizabeth Tenety | October 10, 2008; 03:29 PM ET | Comments (4)
Divine Impulses: T.D. Jakes
It was only when T.D. Jakes lost his father at the age of 16 that he came to know God. "In some ways I think that God became for me the father that I didn't have," Jakes said. After Jakes...
By Elizabeth Tenety | September 25, 2008; 03:39 PM ET | Comments (7)
Divine Impulses: Lorne Michaels
When it comes to tragedy, what's comedy got to do with it? "It [experiencing death] leads to a seriousness that is very helpful in comedy," Lorne Michaels said in an interview at his home with Sally Quinn. "I think of...
By Elizabeth Tenety | September 12, 2008; 04:47 PM ET | Comments (11)
Divine Impulses: Richard Land
Richard Land is a Southern Baptist who rejects gay marriage and defines abortion as the taking of a human life. But Land does support civil unions and says that abortion is permitted when a woman's life is endangered....
By Elizabeth Tenety | September 5, 2008; 06:41 PM ET | Comments (10)
Divine Impulses: Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn does not just want to protect the state from religion. He wants to protect religion from the state. "Religion flourishes best when governments just leave it alone," Lynn said to On Faith's Sally Quinn in the Divine Impulses...
By Elizabeth Tenety | August 29, 2008; 03:51 PM ET | Comments (5)
Divine Impulses: Laszlo Berkowits
Laszlo Berkowits says that when he was arrested in Hungary with his family in 1944 and taken into Auschwitz concentration camp, he was a "totally non-theological 16-year-old boy." Today he is a Rabbi Emeritus at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls...
By Elizabeth Tenety | August 20, 2008; 02:19 PM ET | Comments (30)
Divine Impulses: Anita Renfroe
Anita Renfroe wasn't supposed to be funny. In fact, Renfroe says that her Baptist religious tradition "didn't really celebrate laughter." But the comedian slowly discovered that just as she wanted her children to be happy, "the God of the Universe"...
By Elizabeth Tenety | August 8, 2008; 08:03 AM ET | Comments (0)
Divine Impulses: William and Janet Cohen
Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and his wife, television journalist Janet Langhart Cohen are of different races, political persuasions and religious backgrounds. Yet they say a 'soulful' connection brought them together....
By Elizabeth Tenety | August 1, 2008; 05:04 PM ET | Comments (0)
Divine Impulses: William Boykin
Retired Army Lt. General William Boykin was involved in many perilous operations during his 30-year military career –missions that included the Desert One attempted rescue of Iranian hostages in 1980, Grenada, and serving as commander of Delta Force during Black...
By Elizabeth Tenety | July 25, 2008; 09:01 AM ET | Comments (25)
Divine Impulses: Caroline Casey
Born the youngest of five children to an Irish Catholic congressman and his wife, Caroline Casey was an unlikely student of astrology. But for the past thirty years, in her work as a Washington area astrologer, Casey has formed...
By Elizabeth Tenety | July 18, 2008; 03:56 PM ET | Comments (9)
Divine Impulses: Harry Jackson
Watch Bishop Harry Jackson talk about being born again, the role of religion in politics, the black church and his perspective on biblical principles of morality in the Divine Impulses religion interview series with On Faith’s Sally Quinn.
By Elizabeth Tenety | July 9, 2008; 03:11 PM ET | Comments (6)
