Monthly Archives: August 1996
COMMENTARY: A spiritual power on the ticket
By RNS Blog Editor — August 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) Republicans are desperate to attract women voters, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service China seeks to”re-educate”Tibet’s Buddhist monks (RNS) The Chinese government, in an apparent effort to eradicate the influence of the Dalai Lama, has launched a political”re-education”campaign in Tibetan monasteries.”This is an education campaign for the whole Tibet region,”Reuters quoted a Chinese foreign ministry official in Tibet as saying Friday (Aug. 16).”It […]
TOP STORY: THE POWER OF PRAYER:Prayer is best when it comes from the heart
By Karen Long — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) This morning upon waking, David Yount said his prayers. “Common people do not pray, they only beg,” George Bernard Shaw once sneered, but Yount is quick to differ. He believes prayer is natural for all of us, on the lips of athletes seeking Olympic greatness and children tucked into […]
A novice’s guide to effective prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It’s not all that difficult to pray, according to David Yount, a syndicated columnist and author of”Breaking Through God’s Silence: A Guide to Effective Prayer (Simon & Schuster). Here are what Yount sees as 10 keys to effective prayer: 1. Be intentional. Resist bothering God when you are bored. […]
COMMENTARY: The search for intelligent life continues _ on Mars and on Earth
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) The reports last week that there were signs of […]
NEWS FEATURE: BILLY AND FRANKLIN GRAHAM: A younger Graham closes convention with prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN DIEGO _ Following in the footsteps of his father, who has often prayed from the podiums of political conventions, evangelist Franklin Graham for the first time concluded the Republican National Convention Thursday (Aug. 15) with a prayer. Graham, 44, head of the international relief agency Samaritan’s Purse and an […]
NEWS FEATURE: BILLY AND FRANKLIN GRAHAM: A younger Graham to close convention with prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN DIEGO _ Following in the footsteps of his father, who has often prayed from the podiums of political conventions, evangelist Franklin Graham is scheduled to give the final benediction at the Republican National Convention Thursday (Aug. 15). Graham, 44, head of the international relief agency Samaritan’s Purse and an […]
COMMENTARY: This sports madness, too, shall pass
By James Rudin — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) It comes as no surprise that Americans are increasingly obsessed with sports. Athletic competition has so permeated our psyches, our culture and our political thinking that it has become a new kind of religion, with its […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Poll: Dole fails to impress religious voters (RNS) Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole is failing to connect with key conservative religious groups, according to a new poll by the Barna Research Group. The poll, taken a month before the Republican’s Aug 12-15 national convention, showed President Clinton holding an overall […]
TOP STORY: GOD AND THE GOP: Powerful and pragmatic, religious right now a player in GOP
By Ira Rifkin — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN DIEGO _ The religious right has emerged from the Republican National Convention with more influence within the party than it has ever had, despite its disappearance this week from the prime-time spotlight so the Dole campaign could pursue needed support among GOP moderates and swing voters. “This movement is […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Church agencies ask Cypriot leaders to exercise restraint (RNS) The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC) have urged Turkish and Greek leaders on the divided island nation of Cyprus to restrain their followers in the wake of deadly intra-communal clashes.”It is imperative that the […]
NEWS STORY: YOUTH AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Parents no longer encourage church vocations
By Carl Anderson — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (WASHINGTON) There was a time not too long ago when it was a point of pride for a Roman Catholic parent to have a son or daughter enter full-time church work or prepare to become a priest or nun. No more. A new survey of active Catholic youth shows that […]
NEWS STORY: YOUTH AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Parents no longer encourage church vocations
By Carl Anderson — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (WASHINGTON) There was a time not too long ago when it was a point of pride for a Roman Catholic parent to have a son or daughter enter full-time church work or prepare to become a priest or nun. No more. A new survey of active Catholic youth shows that […]
COMMENTARY: Lessons from `Daddy Do-right’
By Dale Hanson Bourke — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) (UNDATED) I embarrassed my children again the other day. Waiting for them to emerge from the swimming pool locker room, I sat down on the edge of a planter and began to absent-mindedly pull out […]
TOP STORY: MISSION TO MARS: How will earthlings talk to aliens about God?
By Chris Smith — August 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When people talk about a mission to Mars, they probably don’t have Father Peregrine in mind. In Ray Bradbury’s”Martian Chronicles,”a popular science fiction series from the 1940s and `50s, Peregrine leads a group of earnest Episcopalian missionaries to Mars, joining thousands of other human colonists. Notions of advanced life […]
