Monthly Archives: January 2000
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Episcopal Church pulls out of convention hotel over racial claims (RNS) The Episcopal Church will pay a $1.2 million penalty and break a contract with Denver’s Adam’s Mark Hotel because the hotel chain has been sued for racial discrimination. The denomination had planned to use more than 1,000 rooms and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 19, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Episcopal Church pulls out of convention hotel over racial claims (RNS) The Episcopal Church will pay a $1.2 million penalty and break a contract with Denver’s Adam’s Mark Hotel because the hotel chain has been sued for racial discrimination. The denomination had planned to use more than 1,000 rooms and […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author Wants to Rescue `America’s Most Dangerous Negro’
By Jonathan Tilove — January 15, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Michael Eric Dyson is on a rescue mission, a mission to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. from his holiday, his halo and the hollow hero worship of a nation that has forgotten how much better it likes him dead than alive. King, Dyson argues in his new book, […]
COMMENTARY: Off the Rocker
By Frances Kennedy — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph, published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ Nothing brings out the brave moralist in American observers as much as a safe and vulnerable […]
COMMENTARY: Off the Rocker
By Frances Kennedy — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph, published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ Nothing brings out the brave moralist in American observers as much as a safe and vulnerable […]
NEWS STORY: FCC Rule Alarms Religious Broadcasters
By Adelle M. Banks — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In a move causing alarm among religious broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has issued expanded guidelines on programming requirements of applicants for noncommercial educational television licenses. In a December order concerning the transfer of licenses among stations in the Pittsburgh area, the commission determined that”not all programming, including […]
NEWS STORY: FCC Rule Alarms Religious Broadcasters
By Adelle M. Banks — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In a move causing alarm among religious broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has issued expanded guidelines on programming requirements of applicants for noncommercial educational television licenses. In a December order concerning the transfer of licenses among stations in the Pittsburgh area, the commission determined that”not all programming, including […]
NEWS STORY: FCC Rule Alarms Religious Broadcasters
By Adelle M. Banks — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In a move causing alarm among religious broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has issued expanded guidelines on programming requirements of applicants for noncommercial educational television licenses. In a December order concerning the transfer of licenses among stations in the Pittsburgh area, the commission determined that”not all programming, including […]
NEWS STORY: FCC Rule Alarms Religious Broadcasters
By Adelle M. Banks — January 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In a move causing alarm among religious broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has issued expanded guidelines on programming requirements of applicants for noncommercial educational television licenses. In a December order concerning the transfer of licenses among stations in the Pittsburgh area, the commission determined that”not all programming, including […]
NEWS STORY: Clinton, Marking End of Post-Ramadan Feast, Urges Prayers for Peace
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Clinton, in a first-time event Monday (Jan. 10), marked the festival celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by greeting Muslim leaders and seeking their prayers for the Middle East peace process.”This will be a time of great tension where all people will have […]
NEWS STORY: Clinton, Marking End of Post-Ramadan Feast, Urges Prayers for Peace
By Adelle M. Banks — January 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Clinton, in a first-time event Monday (Jan. 10), marked the festival celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by greeting Muslim leaders and seeking their prayers for the Middle East peace process.”This will be a time of great tension where all people will have […]
NEWS FEATURE: Analysis: Assessing the Future Shape of Christianity
By By David Gibson — January 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Given that the world did not end in a spectacular Y2K or an apocalyptic Second Coming and that Jan. 18 marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it may be a good time to ask: In Christianity’s third millennium, what will Christianity in America […]
NEWS FEATURE: Analysis: Assessing the Future Shape of Christianity
By By David Gibson — January 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Given that the world did not end in a spectacular Y2K or an apocalyptic Second Coming and that Jan. 18 marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it may be a good time to ask: In Christianity’s third millennium, what will Christianity in America […]
NEWS FEATURE: Virgin Mary _ New Jersey real estate mogul?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. _ By all accounts, she died almost 2,000 years ago and never set foot in the Western Hemisphere. But somehow the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared in Middlesex County’s computerized land records as a real estate mogul. The files report the Virgin Mary sold 248 properties between 1946 […]
NEWS FEATURE: Virgin Mary _ New Jersey real estate mogul?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. _ By all accounts, she died almost 2,000 years ago and never set foot in the Western Hemisphere. But somehow the Virgin Mary suddenly appeared in Middlesex County’s computerized land records as a real estate mogul. The files report the Virgin Mary sold 248 properties between 1946 […]
