Monthly Archives: February 2005
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Former Faith-Based Official says Bush Fails on `Poor People Stuff’ WASHINGTON (RNS) A former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives says President Bush has failed to support the program as he had promised. David Kuo, who left the position in December 2003, said the […]
NEWS STORY: In the Supreme Court Itself, Moses and His Law on Display
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When the Supreme Court justices consider whether the Ten Commandments should be displayed on government property, they will do so under the watchful eyes of Moses. The Jewish lawgiver is depicted several times in the stone and marble edifice that is the Supreme Court building, and so are […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican Speaker Warns Against Emergence of a New `Religion of Health’
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ A participant in a Vatican conference on the ethical values of sickness and health warned Thursday (Feb. 17) against an emerging new “religion of health” that turns the sick into second-class citizens and supports euthanasia. “I believe that there really exists such a vision of man that […]
COMMENTARY: Doctors Can Now List Heartbreak Right Before Heartburn
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Science now confirms what you learned the hard way: that there is such a thing as heartbreak. Plain and homely heartbreak, however, is abstracted into “myocardial stunning” marked by elevated “stress hormone levels,” according to the doctors’ Web site http://www.Medscape.com. Also termed the “broken heart syndrome,” and accompanied by […]
NEWS STORY: In Ten Commandments Cases, Supreme Court Will Hear Passion From Both Sides
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The call “God save this honorable court” will echo throughout the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2, just as it does every time the court’s marshall convenes a session for the nine justices. But this time those words will uniquely resonate because the court is […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Mormons Reported to Be Fastest-Growing U.S. Church (RNS) Mormons are the fastest-growing church in the United States and rose to the No. 4 slot of the country’s top 10 churches, according to annual church membership figures compiled by the National Council of Churches. The 2005 Yearbook of American and Canadian […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Groups Say Environment Is a Values Issue
By RNS Blog Editor — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A broad spectrum of people of faith are declaring green a religious color and the environment a sacred treasure that must be protected. Calling global warming “one of the key religious issues of our day,” Episcopal Bishop John Chane of Washington joined Rabbi David Saperstein of the Washington-based […]
NEWS FEATURE: Preachers and Rabbis Struggle With `Thou Shalts’ and `Thou Shalt Nots’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As the Rev. Frederic Baue prepares for his Lenten services, he’s thinking about what he will preach each week on the Ten Commandments. He’s already covered “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” reminding his worshippers at Bethany Lutheran Church in O’Fallon, Ill., that focusing on success and […]
COMMENTARY: Arthur Miller Battled Anti-Semitism From the Start
By James Rudin — February 18, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Arthur Miller, who died recently at age 89, was one of America’s greatest playwrights along with Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. While most attention centers on Miller’s best known dramas: “Death of a Salesman,” “All My Sons,” “After the Fall,” and “The Crucible,” I am especially drawn to two […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Dean of National Cathedral Brings Savvy, Boldness
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service BOSTON _ One year ago, when Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” was stirring sharp debate about anti-Semitism, Rabbi Ronne Friedman marveled that an Episcopal priest would convene a public panel on such a touchy issue and include him among the speakers. But what impressed Friedman even more […]
NEWS FEATURE: Roadside Religious Displays Capture Spiritual Journeys of a Highway Nation
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) From golf courses to cross gardens, believers are sharing personal religious experiences in very public ways along America’s highways and back roads. “If you talk to these artists about their work, they will describe it as a sacred process, as a form of prayer,” says scholar Timothy Beal, who […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Doctors Say Pope Recovered From Medical Crisis Faster Than Expected ROME (RNS) Pope John Paul II made a faster-than-expected recovery from the breathing crisis that forced his hospitalization, but he will need more time to complete his convalescence, the head of his medical team said Wednesday (Feb. 16). Rodolfo Proietti […]
NEWS FEATURE: `Immigrant Hinduism’ Takes Distinctly American Shape
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service NORTHRIDGE, Calif. _ On a cold, rainy Sunday morning in the parking lot of a Hindu temple, a group of Indian-American medical students sign up devotees for free diabetes and cholesterol tests. Inside, M. Kalyan Sharma, a 69-year-old priest, hands out fruits and little plastic pouches filled with an assortment […]
COMMENTARY: Is It So Bad to Teach That the `Big Guy’ May Have Designed the Universe?
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) It’s almost a cliche, or a reality TV show: New York family moves to the Shenandoah Valley and learns that the elementary school breaks in the middle of the day for Bible lessons. You can hear the lawsuits barreling down I-81, can’t you? The family has asked the school […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 16, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service Former Faith-Based Official says Bush Fails on `Poor People Stuff’ WASHINGTON (RNS) A former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives says President Bush has failed to support the program as he had promised. David Kuo, who left the position in December 2003, said the […]
