Monthly Archives: May 2000
NEWS STORY: Columnist: Hypocrisy An Unappreciated Virtue
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As Washington Post op-ed columnist William Raspberry sees it, the demise of hypocrisy has led to the demise of society. “Speakers and moralists have conspired to give hypocrisy a bad name,” Raspberry said. Raspberry spoke to about 60 people Friday (May 26) at Grace Episcopal Church in the […]
NEWS STORY: Columnist: Hypocrisy An Unappreciated Virtue
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As Washington Post op-ed columnist William Raspberry sees it, the demise of hypocrisy has led to the demise of society. “Speakers and moralists have conspired to give hypocrisy a bad name,” Raspberry said. Raspberry spoke to about 60 people Friday (May 26) at Grace Episcopal Church in the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Maryland Nun Plans to Defy Latest Vatican Ban Regarding Gay Ministry (RNS) A Maryland nun says she will not comply with a new ban from the Vatican ordering her to refrain from speaking or writing about a previous Vatican decision to end a ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. In […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Maryland Nun Plans to Defy Latest Vatican Ban Regarding Gay Ministry (RNS) A Maryland nun says she will not comply with a new ban from the Vatican ordering her to refrain from speaking or writing about a previous Vatican decision to end a ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics. In […]
COMMENTARY: An International 911
By Whitney Jones — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Larry Jones is president of the Feed the Children, the international humanitarian aid group.) (UNDATED) Who defines compassion or what moves us to act? Who would stop our hand when we reach to dial 911? I have just returned from Ethiopia, ground zero for countries in the Horn of Africa […]
COMMENTARY: An International 911
By Whitney Jones — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Larry Jones is president of the Feed the Children, the international humanitarian aid group.) (UNDATED) Who defines compassion or what moves us to act? Who would stop our hand when we reach to dial 911? I have just returned from Ethiopia, ground zero for countries in the Horn of Africa […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: As Ecumenical Relations Mature, So Does the NCC
By Kein Eckstrom — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At its 50th birthday party six months ago, the National Council of Churches announced with great fanfare that after teetering on the brink of extinction, the proud ecumenical body didn’t need life support after all. Faced with mounting debts, a multitiered bureaucracy and a staggering sense of aimlessness, the […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: As Ecumenical Relations Mature, So Does the NCC
By Kein Eckstrom — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At its 50th birthday party six months ago, the National Council of Churches announced with great fanfare that after teetering on the brink of extinction, the proud ecumenical body didn’t need life support after all. Faced with mounting debts, a multitiered bureaucracy and a staggering sense of aimlessness, the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Muslims Kill Dozens of Christians in Religious Clash in Indonesia (RNS) More than 30 people were killed Thursday (May 25) and Friday (May 26) during an attack by Muslims on a Christian village on the island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia, officials said. Seven Muslims and 26 Christians died in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Muslims Kill Dozens of Christians in Religious Clash in Indonesia (RNS) More than 30 people were killed Thursday (May 25) and Friday (May 26) during an attack by Muslims on a Christian village on the island of Halmahera in eastern Indonesia, officials said. Seven Muslims and 26 Christians died in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Church World Service To Be Financially Independent of NCC (RNS) The humanitarian outreach arm of the National Council of Churches will now balance its own books as the financially troubled ecumenical body begins to reassess its mission and possible death and rebirth as a different organization. Church World Service and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 26, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Church World Service To Be Financially Independent of NCC (RNS) The humanitarian outreach arm of the National Council of Churches will now balance its own books as the financially troubled ecumenical body begins to reassess its mission and possible death and rebirth as a different organization. Church World Service and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Former Southern Baptist President Announces His Divorce Eds: Gearl is cq in the 8th graf) (RNS) Former Southern Baptist Convention president Charles Stanley has announced he and his wife have divorced. Stanley, the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, and his wife, Anna, had been separated for almost […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 25, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Former Southern Baptist President Announces His Divorce Eds: Gearl is cq in the 8th graf) (RNS) Former Southern Baptist Convention president Charles Stanley has announced he and his wife have divorced. Stanley, the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, and his wife, Anna, had been separated for almost […]
COMMENTARY: The Short, Happy Life of Rudolph Giuliani
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 24, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two sons and author of “Everyday Miracles.”) (UNDATED) He could have been a contender. Instead, he turned contemplative. And in doing so, Rudolph Giuliani, the brash mayor of New York, stunned more people than had any of his harsh rhetoric in the past. […]
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