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NEWS FEATURE: Mapping the millennial fervor

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service BROOKLINE, Mass. _ If Richard Landes believed the world will end in the year 2000, he would be doing a lot of work for nothing. Landes, a medieval historian at Boston University is also the director of the Center for Millennial Studies (CMS), which is keeping a watc...
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COMMENTARY: Becoming the ethical conscience of the church as well as society

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Suzanne Holland is Assistant Professor of Religious and Social Ethics at The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.) UNDATED _ With the summer's end approaching, I have hurriedly been preparing for the courses I will teach in a few weeks. One of those c...
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COMMENTARY: Bioethics becoming a dominant human rights issue

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ A recent conference on medicine and religion at Saint Leo College in Florida offered convincing evidence that bioethics is one of the dominant civil and human rights is...
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COMMENTARY: Job: a biblical response to New Age pablum

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ New Age spirituality permeates American culture. Its gurus fill bookstores and TV screens with their theological pablum of personal fulfillment, pain-free liv...
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COMMENTARY: Should we clone humans? _ beyond the `yuck factor’

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (R. Albert Mohler Jr., a noted author and speaker, is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.) UNDATED _ The development of a human embryo from a cloned cell _ as claimed by a group of South Korean scientists _ has pushed the clock of g...
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COMMENTARY: The terrible burden of knowing

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (R. Albert Mohler Jr., a noted author and speaker, is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.) UNDATED _ Are there things we should not know? In the final analysis, that may turn out to be one of the most significant questions raised by...
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RNS Daily Digest

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service Pope, Yeltsin to meet in February (RNS) Russian President Boris Yeltsin will meet with Pope John Paul II in Italy next month, apparently to see if the two leaders can improve the strained relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. The an...
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RNS Daily Digest

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service Penthouse: article about Episcopal priest was unsubstantiated (RNS) Penthouse magazine has issued a statement admitting it published unsubstantiated claims in a 1996 story that led to the defrocking of one Brooklyn priest and the firing of another at the Episcopal...
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COMMENTARY: The delicate dance of mothering a man

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two boys.) UNDATED _ This Mother's Day will be different. This Mother's Day I will be the mother of a man. Sure, he's still a teen-ager; not yet old enough to drive. But at some point during the past...
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COMMENTARY: Welcome to the post-secular world

| Jan 1, 1998

c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and considers the C she received in calculus to be evidence of grace.) UNDATED _ To be a good scientist, do you need to check your faith at the lab door? To be a good believer, do you need to abandon reason in order to wor...
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