Monthly Archives: May 1998
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 16, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Update: Christian protest over Pakistan’s blasphemy law turns violent (RNS) Some 600 people were arrested as thousands of Christians protested Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law Friday (May 15). Protesters torched businesses and cars after police tried to disperse the mob with tear gas and steel-tipped batons, according to witnesses. Scores were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 14, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Dutch Christians ask for Bosnian `disappeared’ accounting (RNS) Some 60,000 Dutch Christians have signed a petition calling on the Muslim, Croatian and Serbian leaders of Bosnia for a”clarification”on the status of the nearly 20,000 people still unaccounted for following the end of the war in Bosnia.”In spite of the international […]
NEWS STORY: Jewish, evangelical leaders voice support for Netanyahu
By Ira Rifkin — May 14, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ American Jewish and evangelical Christian leaders have rallied to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the White House should desist from pressuring Netanyahu into ceding another 13 percent of the Israeli-controlled West Bank to Palestinian control. The support for Netanyahu came as the Israeli leader […]
COMMENTARY: Where have all the unisexuals gone?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 14, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons who prefer to be called”manly men.”) UNDATED _ I’m so old, I remember when unisex was a new, risque term. Back in those days, we ducked into shops promising unisex fashions and stuffed our newly rounded […]
NEWS FEATURE: Episcopal Bishop Spong wants to ignite a new reformation
By David Briggs — May 14, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ For Jack Spong _ or, more formally, Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong of the Diocese of Newark, N.J. _ virtually everything in the Christian lexicon is up for grabs. Spong, who has made a career of challenging conventional Christian teachings on such topics as the virgin birth and […]
NEWS FEATURE: Habitat’s Fuller plans big Houston push
By Cecile Holmes — May 13, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, has never been intimidated by big names or big money. After all, he’s working to build _ literally _ the kingdom of God. And in a recent visit here, Fuller said he wants to do something his famed housing program […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 13, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Bishop, religious, peace activists call for end to Iraq sanctions (RNS) Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit, joined by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and some 80 other religious and peace activists, have delivered some $4 million in humanitarian aid to Iraq.”We have come in defiance of our own […]
NEWS FEATURE: Preaching as a `precise tornado’
By Adelle M. Banks — May 13, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, for the last 28 years the minister at Harvard University’s Memorial Church, has become an American expert on preaching. Gomes, 55 (he turns 56 on May 22), was ordained in the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. and became assistant minister at Harvard […]
COMMENTARY: `If your enemies are hungry, feed them’
By RNS Blog Editor — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Timothy Dearborn is chief of staff for World Vision, United States). UNDATED _”If your enemy is hungry, feed them.” These words from Scripture still ring with challenge. A deadly famine has been stalking for more than two years a part of the world unseen and ignored by most. Innocent men, […]
COMMENTARY: Preaching lifestyle rather than proclaiming God
By Tom Ehrich — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is the author of”On a Journey,”daily meditations available through Journey Publishing Co. If you have feedback or want to suggest a question for a future column, e-mail him at journey(AT)interpath.com) UNDATED _ It was a preacher’s dream: Mother’s Day and a Scripture reading admonishing to”love one another.” To […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Baptists to consider family-related amendment to faith statement (RNS) A committee of the Southern Baptist Convention plans to recommend an addition to the denomination’s statement of faith that affirms heterosexual marriage and declares the husband is responsible for the family and the wife should”submit graciously to the servant leadership of […]
NEWS STORY: Early reaction positive to new Lutheran-Episcopal accord
By David Briggs — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ A proposed new accord between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church is getting its first look by the ELCA’s grassroots as the denomination’s synods _ or regional jurisdictions _ hold their annual meetings. So far, church officials say, the response is positive _ in […]
COMMENTARY: Women and Islamic Law: It’s a matter of interpretation
By Salam Al-Marayati — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dr. Laila Al-Marayati is a Los Angeles physician and past president of the Muslim Women’s League.) UNDATED _ For supporters of women’s human rights, it may sometimes seem as though Islam offers nothing but obstacles. While so-called Islamic countries are quick to modernize other areas of civil law _ policies […]
NEWS FEATURE: Holocaust hero reunited with those he saved, subject of documentary
By Chris Smith — May 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PRAGUE, Czech Republic _ Nearly 60 years ago, a young British stockbroker, Nicholas Winton, arrived in Prague to help evacuate Jewish children in the months before World War II. This spring, the 90-year-old Winton returned to greet 10 of the 664 people whose young lives he saved from the Holocaust […]
NEWS FEATURE: When should the hating stop?
By David Briggs — May 9, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service”For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”_ Ecclesiastes 3. UNDATED _ The cries for Jewish males to come out to the street were heard and followed by Romek Zaks at the beginning of World War II in Poland. The only boy among seven siblings […]
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