Monthly Archives: November 2004
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 23, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Editors: Check the RNS photo Web site at https://religionnews.com for photos to accompany this first item. Database of Holocaust Victims Unveiled, Accessible Online JERUSALEM (RNS) Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, launched its much-awaited central database of Holocaust victims Monday (Nov. 22). Its goal is to register […]
NEWS FEATURE: Grande Dame of the Authentic Jewish Kitchen Serves Up New Recipes for Holidays
By RNS Blog Editor — November 23, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service MANCHESTER, N.H. _ When growing up, cookbook author Joan Nathan would go each year to her Aunt Lisl’s house during Hanukkah to make butter cookies decorated with blue-colored sugar. Today, Nathan, 61, has made Aunt Lisl’s prized recipe _ and hundreds of others _ available to a new generation of […]
NEWS STORY: Clerics Aim to Expand Values Issues Beyond Conservative Definitions
By RNS Blog Editor — November 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Twenty-four religious leaders have announced a nationwide effort to expand the political debate on values beyond abortion and gay marriage to incorporate subjects such as housing, education and crime control. The clergy, most of them politically liberal to moderate, have joined together under a “New Voices Campaign,” unveiled […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Editors: Check the RNS photo Web site at https://religionnews.com for photos of the Graham crusade to accompany the following story. Graham Utilizes Technology to Preach in Multiple Languages PASADENA, Calif. (RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham has always gone to extraordinary efforts to communicate his message. But his four-day California crusade is […]
NEWS FEATURE: Martyred Father to Become Orthodox Saint; Son Rejoices
By RNS Blog Editor — November 20, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PARMA, Ohio _ It had all the makings of a classic Balkans tragedy. A father survives the Nazis, but is executed for his faith by the Communists. The son, surviving on a young boy’s memories of a loving parent, must deny the father publicly lest the same authorities put him […]
COMMENTARY: In Election of New Leaders, The Bishops Tell the Truth About Themselves
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It may help, but you need not be an artist or a psychologist to grasp the fundamentals of human communication. Beneath denials and evasions, people still try to tell us the truth about themselves. America’s Catholic bishops told the truth about themselves as they elected new officers this week […]
BOOK REVIEWS: Spirituality on Campus, in Jewish Ritual and in the Nation’s Founding
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Several new books mine the rich ores of American religion, examining topics from spirituality at colleges to traditions of the Jewish year. Each volume is distinguished by the attention to detail provided by its author or translator. In “The Book of Customs (HarperSanFrancisco),” Scott-Martin Kosofsky offers a modernized guidebook […]
BOOK REVIEWS: Crusades Examined in New Light, But Not Enough Light
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) “The First Crusade: A New History,” by Thomas Asbridge (Oxford University Press, 408 pages, $35) The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks brought into high profile the sometimes tension-fraught relationship between Islam and Christianity. In the United States, where religious diversity and pluralism were not real factors until the last decades […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Presbyterians Fire Two Officials After Hezbollah Meeting (RNS) Two officials of the Presbyterian Church (USA) who were part of a controversial delegation that met with Hezbollah officials in Lebanon have been fired. Church officials, however, would not say if the firings of Kathy Lueckert and the Rev. Peter Sulyok were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Presbyterians Fire Two Officials After Hezbollah Meeting (RNS) Two officials of the Presbyterian Church (USA) who were part of a controversial delegation that met with Hezbollah officials in Lebanon have been fired. Church officials, however, would not say if the firings of Kathy Lueckert and the Rev. Peter Sulyok were […]
NEWS STORY: Racially Diverse Faith Coalitions Oppose Gay Marriage, Tackle Other Issues
By Adelle M. Banks — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) With the results of the election fresh on his mind, Pastor Ken Friendly called a meeting of black and white ministers in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss forming a chapter of the Traditional Values Coalition. The African-American pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship said the group will ensure that his state’s […]
COMMENTARY: Back When Slides Were the Photographic Rage
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Marcia and I recently girded ourselves with steely determination and spent hours viewing our huge collection of old 35 millimeter color slides. We were like archaeologists digging up the past because many of the slides were decades old. Surprisingly, looking at them after years of neglect was an emotional […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic Bishops Vote to Join New Ecumenical Movement
By Kein Eckstrom — November 19, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday (Nov. 17) gave their blessing to a new broad-based effort to bring Catholics, evangelical and mainline Protestants, and Orthodox Christians around a common table for the first time. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 151-73 in a meeting here to […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 18, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Cardinal Says Abortion and Social Justice Are Not `Competing Causes’ WASHINGTON (RNS) Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, who has overseen the Catholic Church’s relationship with dissenting politicians, says opposition to abortion and support of social justice cannot be “competing causes” in the church’s political life. McCarrick, chairman of a task […]
NEWS STORY: With Death of Arafat, Muslims and Jews Look Forward
By RNS Blog Editor — November 18, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) American Jews and Muslims reflect differently on the life and leadership of Yasser Arafat, but they agree that following his death, a new era of leadership, one that will unify Palestinians and reinvigorate the peace process, is needed. Arafat, 75, died Thursday. For many American Muslims, the leader of […]
