Monthly Archives: July 2000
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Survey: Muslim Voters Follow Issues, Not Party (RNS) A “major block” of American Muslim voters say they have no particular allegiance to either the Democratic or Republican presidential contenders, and are more concerned with a candidate’s track record on social policy issues than party affiliation, according to a new survey […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Military Service Separate Ultra-Orthodox, Secular Israelis
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When Prime Minister Ehud Barak campaigned for election last year, his slogan “One People, One Draft,” captured the imagination of secular Israelis embittered by the two-tiered military system in which nearly 70,000 ultra-Orthodox young men receive annual deferments for yeshiva study. This week, however, Barak was forced to […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Military Service Separate Ultra-Orthodox, Secular Israelis
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When Prime Minister Ehud Barak campaigned for election last year, his slogan “One People, One Draft,” captured the imagination of secular Israelis embittered by the two-tiered military system in which nearly 70,000 ultra-Orthodox young men receive annual deferments for yeshiva study. This week, however, Barak was forced to […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Technology Casting Its Spell On Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Sporting a long, reddish beard, black yarmulke and formal suit, Eliezer Ram would fit right into any one this city’s yeshivas, where hundreds of young and middle-aged ultra-Orthodox men like himself sit on hard, uncomfortable benches from morning until night _ studying and debating ancient Jewish legal texts. […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Technology Casting Its Spell On Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Sporting a long, reddish beard, black yarmulke and formal suit, Eliezer Ram would fit right into any one this city’s yeshivas, where hundreds of young and middle-aged ultra-Orthodox men like himself sit on hard, uncomfortable benches from morning until night _ studying and debating ancient Jewish legal texts. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Adventists Elect World, North American Leaders (RNS) Delegates to the Seventh-day Adventist World Session have re-elected Jan Paulsen as their world president and elected Michigan Pastor Don C. Schneider as their North American president. Paulsen, 65, was first elected in March 1999, replacing Robert S. Folkenberg, who resigned amid allegations […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Adventists Elect World, North American Leaders (RNS) Delegates to the Seventh-day Adventist World Session have re-elected Jan Paulsen as their world president and elected Michigan Pastor Don C. Schneider as their North American president. Paulsen, 65, was first elected in March 1999, replacing Robert S. Folkenberg, who resigned amid allegations […]
NEWS FEATURE: Theologian Looks At the Negative Impact of Technology
By Cecile Holmes — July 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Theologian Rick Gaillardetz worries that the genie of technology has escaped its bottle and threatens to enslave Christian as consumers. According to Gaillardetz, techno-wizardry _ from the Internet to the microwave _ can undermine family relationships and personal spirituality, and speed the vanishing sense of community once common […]
NEWS FEATURE: Theologian Looks At the Negative Impact of Technology
By Cecile Holmes — July 6, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Theologian Rick Gaillardetz worries that the genie of technology has escaped its bottle and threatens to enslave Christian as consumers. According to Gaillardetz, techno-wizardry _ from the Internet to the microwave _ can undermine family relationships and personal spirituality, and speed the vanishing sense of community once common […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Presbyterians Decline New Study on Abortion, Will Reconsider the Trinity (RNS) Delegates to the General Assembly meeting of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted not to revisit the controversial issue of abortion, instead choosing to rely on the church’s previous abortion statements from 1983 and 1992. The 2.5 million-member church […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Presbyterians Decline New Study on Abortion, Will Reconsider the Trinity (RNS) Delegates to the General Assembly meeting of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have voted not to revisit the controversial issue of abortion, instead choosing to rely on the church’s previous abortion statements from 1983 and 1992. The 2.5 million-member church […]
NEWS STORY: AME Considers Possibility of First Woman Bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It’s time. That’s what both of the female candidates for bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church say about the possibility of becoming the first woman episcopal leader of the prominent African-American denomination. When delegates gather for the quadrennial meeting July 5-12 in Cincinnati, the election of bishops will […]
NEWS STORY: AME Considers Possibility of First Woman Bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It’s time. That’s what both of the female candidates for bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church say about the possibility of becoming the first woman episcopal leader of the prominent African-American denomination. When delegates gather for the quadrennial meeting July 5-12 in Cincinnati, the election of bishops will […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Presbyterians Approve Sweeping Social Policy Statements (RNS) Delegates to the General Assembly policy-making session of the Presbyterian Church (USA) passed a series of resolutions on a number of hot-button social issues before ending their convention in Long Beach, Calif., on Saturday (July 1). While most of the resolutions easily passed […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Presbyterians Approve Sweeping Social Policy Statements (RNS) Delegates to the General Assembly policy-making session of the Presbyterian Church (USA) passed a series of resolutions on a number of hot-button social issues before ending their convention in Long Beach, Calif., on Saturday (July 1). While most of the resolutions easily passed […]
