Monthly Archives: March 1998
COMMENTARY: Accepting the downfall of a hero
By RNS Blog Editor — March 26, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ In his book,”Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65″(Simon & Schuster), Taylor Branch, using recently declassified material, […]
COMMENTARY: Looking for a few good men of God
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 26, 1998
c. 1998 Religion New Service) (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service.) UNDATED _ Like most children of his time and place, Don McKinnon dutifully attended Sunday school. But despite the best intentions of his teachers, he couldn’t stand it. For a bright and active boy, sitting still while listening to Bible stories […]
COMMENTARY: The continuing failure of the public schools
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago’s 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.) UNDATED _ The purveyors of conventional wisdom have been rushing once again to rescue […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Robertson, IRS settle tax case over political activities (RNS) Ending a 12-year-old tax and politics case, Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network has reached a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service that calls for CBN to make a”significant payment”to the IRS but preserves the organization’s tax-exempt status. The settlement, announced Monday […]
COMMENTARY: Tell me an old, old story
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 19, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service) UNDATED _ We are assaulted by e-mail, bombarded by phone messages. News bites inform us and sitcoms entertain us. Beepers and car phones ensure we are always within reach. But despite the dizzying technological advances, part of us remains unreached. […]
NEWS STORY: Methodist pastor acquitted in church same-sex `union’ trial
By Jay Reeves — March 16, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service KEARNEY, Neb. _ A United Methodist pastor was acquitted Friday (March 13) of violating a denominational directive by presiding over a same-sex union ceremony involving two women at his Omaha church. The decision in the case of the Rev. Jimmy Creech is expected to have wide ramifications for the 8.5-million […]
NEWS FEATURE: American atheists a diverse, fractious lot
By Julia Lieblich — March 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service POCOPSON, Pa. _ Margaret Downey says her friends tell her she looks so wholesome she could crash a Christian Coalition meeting, and the mere mention of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the nation’s best-known atheist, who disappeared in 1995, makes her recoil. “Mad, mad Madalyn,” she said. O’Hair, Downey believes, bullied her […]
COMMENTARY: Kosovo: It’s neither a melon nor Monica’s cousin
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS) Balkanize. The word has found a place in American pop culture, stretching its meaning to fit anything that is divided and dysfunctional. But a better definition might be disinterested. Mention the Balkans themselves and the average American’s eyes glaze over.”What […]
NEWS STORY: Report: One in 10 Americans received food aid last year
By RNS Blog Editor — March 11, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The nation’s largest hunger-relief organization said Tuesday (March 10) that last year more than 21 million Americans _ roughly one in 10 _ routinely received aid from food assistance programs, including food stamps, food banks and soup kitchens. Additionally, women, children, the elderly and the working poor are […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 10, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Proposal to ease Presbyterian ordination standards unofficially fails (RNS) A proposal to ease the sexual standards required of pastors, elders and deacons in the Presbyterian Church (USA) has failed, according to unofficial tallies by interest groups on both sides of the issue. The proposal, known as Amendment A, was sent […]
NEWS FEATURE: Consecrated virgins _ innovative way to serve God in the secular world
By RNS Blog Editor — March 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ Donna Cole strode into St. Catherine of Siena Church in Cedar Grove last May dressed in white. Standing before a bishop and a crowd of well-wishers, the 35-year-old research scientist promised to live chastely and dedicated herself to God. But Cole, an avid skier and science fiction […]
NEWS STORY: Black churches to mark a week of prayer, healing on AIDS
By Bart Worden — March 2, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ There was a time when a cloak of silence about AIDS shrouded the black religious community, a shroud woven by stereotypes and misconceptions about what was considered a white, gay man’s disease. But Harlem Minister Canon Frederick Boyd Williams said he has seen a marked change in […]
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