Monthly Archives: June 1996
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ANGAHUAN, Mexico _ Speaking in a soft singsong, the town elder recalled villagers’ fear when a strange hillock spewing fire and smoke broke through the furrows of Dionisio Pulido’s cornfield.”People began to cry, but it was the adults crying, and then the little ones as well,”said Jorge Gomez Amado of […]
NEWS STORY: TV offers too much pseudoscience, not enough fact, scientists complain
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service AMHERST, N.Y. _ A leading scientific group, frustrated by a rash of documentary-style TV shows that presented alien autopsies and humans coexisting with dinosaurs as credible, is forming a “media integrity” council to monitor shows and pressure TV networks and other media into presenting less mysticism and more real science. […]
COMMENTARY: Earth to Eleanor: Help Hillary
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-Whenever I try to have a chat with Eleanor Roosevelt, I end up getting the Shopping Channel instead. Guess it’s my fault. I’m just […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Report says Bonhoeffer soon to be pardoned (RNS) The German government may be about to pardon Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian executed by the Nazis and who is still listed under German law as guilty of high treason. Reuters news agency Monday (June 24) quoted unnamed German legal sources as […]
NEWS STORY: Pew study cites power of religion in politics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The conservatism of white evangelical Protestants is the most powerful religious force in politics today, but religion overall has a strong impact on the political views of Christian Americans, according to a new survey released Monday (June 24). It also found a”significant”amount of politicking from the pulpit.”Religion is […]
NEWS STORY: Pew study cites power of religion in politics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The conservatism of white evangelical Protestants is the most powerful religious force in politics today, but religion overall has a strong impact on the political views of Christian Americans, according to a new survey released Monday (June 24). It also found a”significant”amount of politicking from the pulpit.”Religion is […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation’s 60 million Catholics. Confronting a full agenda of internal church concerns _ from voting on new English translations of […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation’s 60 million Catholics. Confronting a full agenda of internal church concerns _ from voting on new English translations of […]
COMMENTARY: When does traditional morality become hatred?
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(AT)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-With a dramatic flourish, San Francisco Mayor Willie […]
COMMENTARY: When does traditional morality become hatred?
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(AT)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-With a dramatic flourish, San Francisco Mayor Willie […]
NEWS STORY: Pope meets a defiant flock on visit to Berlin
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BERLIN _ It was meant to mark the peaceful reunification of Germany, but Pope John Paul II’s weekend trip to Berlin _ his first _ was anything but placid or unifying. As his vehicle was pelted by eggs and paint bombs and his entourage was greeted by demonstrators dressed as […]
TOP STORY: BLOODSHED IN AFRICA: Prayers, then screams, as death engulfs Tutsis’ monastery refu
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service GOMA, Zaire _ After a few minutes of coaxing, the battered old Land Rover’s engine came to life, coughing and shaking like a terminally ill patient until it warmed and settled into a healthy rhythm. The Rev. Victor Bourdeau drifted over to the rattling green hulk, ran his palm across […]
TOP STORY: WORK AND FAITH: Religion in the workplace raises complex issues for courts
By RNS Blog Editor — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-When Isaiah”Ike”Brown took over a Des Moines county data processing unit in 1986, he made no bones about bringing his born-again Baptist beliefs into the office. He tacked prayer plaques and inspirational posters on the walls. He led prayers in his office before work with other Christians. During meetings he […]
Wagon trains on Mormon trail roll back the clock
By RNS Blog Editor — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Clustered in a grassy field on the banks of the Mississippi River, a group of modern-day pioneers, traveling on foot, in covered wagons and on horseback, have embarked on a journey they hope will lead them to Salt Lake City. “It’ll be a trip we won’t forget,” said […]
COMMENTARY: Instead of bashing gays, how about some sympathy?
By RNS Blog Editor — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (RNS)-One of the many dishonesties of the Republicans currently dominating […]
