Monthly Archives: October 1996
COMMENTARY: In the former East Germany, no place for God
By RNS Blog Editor — October 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) DRESDEN, Germany _ God may be alive and well on the banks of the Rhine, […]
NEWS STORY: DISCIPLINE VERSUS CONSCIENCE: South Africa abortion law on fast track to passage
By RNS Blog Editor — October 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Passage of a liberal abortion bill gained strength this week as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) instructed its members Thursday (Oct. 17) to vote in favor of the bill rather than allow an open vote, the ANC announced in Cape Town. The ANC instruction to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Refugee group urges continued sanctions on Burundi (RNS) The U.S. Committee for Refugees says the international community should continue to press Burundi’s Tutsi-dominated government to begin negotiations with ethnic Hutu rebels.”African nations should continue to impose economic sanctions, with support from Western governments, until negotiations occur,”the non-profit agency said in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Children’s Sabbath to be marked across the nation (RNS) In Alaska, members of Fairbanks Lutheran Church will pray for each child in their community by name. In Florida, sixth-graders at the Hebrew School of Temple Judea in West Palm Beach will raise money for a shelter for abused children. In […]
Translating Genesis with an open mind _ and an ear for a good story
By RNS Blog Editor — October 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Stephen Mitchell’s”Genesis: A New Translation of the Classical Biblical Stories”(HarperCollins) is anything but a chapter-and-verse retread of the canonical Genesis. He presents the tales of the Bible’s first book with an open heart, an open mind, and an ear for a good story. This attitude has consequences that are […]
TOP STORY: SEARCHING FOR UNITY: Lutheran and Episcopal bishops thrash out unity proposal
By Carl Anderson — October 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ At a critical moment near the end of the historic six-day joint meeting of the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Lutherans sent what amounted to a small valentine to the Episcopal prelates meeting separately, some 100 feet […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Jesus seminar to discuss its future at upcoming meeting (RNS) For more than a decade, the Jesus Seminar _ a group of religion and biblical scholars that has popularized the scholarly search for the historical Jesus _ has deconstructed the text of the New Testament Gospels in an attempt to […]
NEWS FEATURE: FAITH AND MEDICINE: True healing, doctors say, involves more than mere medical skill
By Adelle M. Banks — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya stood in the George Washington Medical Center auditorium and told a group of medical students the story of a 9-year-old patient with a brain tumor that usually kills within a year. The case was not only a medical anecdote; it proved to be a test […]
TOP STORY: SEEKING UNITY: Lutherans, Episcopalians on the brink of an historic accord
By Carl Anderson — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ Signaling a major turn in the ecumenical movement in the United States, the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) began gathering here Thursday (Oct. 3) to consider a plan to bring the denominations into full communion with one another. […]
COMMENTARY: O, Jerusalem: A tangle of religion and politics
By James Rudin — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) The recent violence in Jerusalem is a devastating reminder of how a volatile mix of religion and politics dominates the city. Diplomats must factor this inextricable relationship into any successful peace process. Even atheists and agnostics […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Spyridon condemns attack on Orthodox headquarters in Turkey (RNS) Archbishop Spyridon of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has condemned a grenade attack on the Istanbul, Turkey, compound of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, calling on President Clinton and political and religious leaders in the United States to join in the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Lutherans delay joint theological declaration with Vatican (RNS) Lutherans have delayed for a year a long-awaited joint declaration with the Roman Catholic Church on a crucial doctrinal issue that would have marked a major breakthrough in ecumenical relations. Both Lutheran and Roman Catholic church officials had hoped the declaration, which […]
TOP STORY: GAY FAMILY VALUES: Gay families push for a place in the mainstream
By RNS Blog Editor — October 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ Given the stinging rhetoric that accompanied Congress’ recent approval of the Defense of Marriage Act, it’s hard to imagine homosexual-rights activists having much reason for optimism. Signed Sept. 21 by President Clinton, the new federal law defines marriage as a contract”between one man and one woman,”and allows […]
COMMENTARY: Everyone seems to have lost touch with the soul
By RNS Blog Editor — October 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Eli Hecht is vice president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and has been involved in counseling and outreach programs for more than 25 years.) (UNDATED) Once a nice little girl had a slumber party. She was […]
COMMENTARY: Singing words we would never speak
By Dale Hanson Bourke — October 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of”Turn Toward the Wind”.) (UNDATED) A few years back, when Tipper Gore and Susan Baker launched a bipartisan mother’s campaign to label record albums, I watched from the sidelines. My children were listening to nothing racier than Raffi, […]
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