Monthly Archives: July 2000
NEWS STORY: Pentecostal Leader Affirms Women As Pastors, Leaders
By Bruce Nolan — July 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Pentecostal Bishop Paul S. Morton has called on fellow Pentecostals to ensure their churches’ leadership roles remain open to women. He suggested that Southern Baptists might one day have to apologize for their defense of an all-male clergy, as they did five years ago for the historic […]
NEWS STORY: Pentecostal Leader Affirms Women As Pastors, Leaders
By Bruce Nolan — July 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Pentecostal Bishop Paul S. Morton has called on fellow Pentecostals to ensure their churches’ leadership roles remain open to women. He suggested that Southern Baptists might one day have to apologize for their defense of an all-male clergy, as they did five years ago for the historic […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service AME Church Officials Seek Air Force Racism Investigation (RNS) Officials of the African Methodist Episcopal Church have called for the U.S. Air Force to reinvestigate an alleged racist statement by a brigadier general concerning chaplains. A special resolution concerning the matter was issued July 8 at the denomination’s quadrennial General […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 14, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service AME Church Officials Seek Air Force Racism Investigation (RNS) Officials of the African Methodist Episcopal Church have called for the U.S. Air Force to reinvestigate an alleged racist statement by a brigadier general concerning chaplains. A special resolution concerning the matter was issued July 8 at the denomination’s quadrennial General […]
NEWS STORY: Harry Potter Casts No Spell on Christian Booksellers
By Bruce Nolan — July 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ With the biggest publishing event in decades unwinding around them, complete with adoring media and unprecedented customer demand for a hot new book, thousands of Christian booksellers are opting out of the Harry Potter whirlwind for reasons of conscience and faith, leaving secular bookstores to reap the […]
NEWS STORY: Harry Potter Casts No Spell on Christian Booksellers
By Bruce Nolan — July 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ With the biggest publishing event in decades unwinding around them, complete with adoring media and unprecedented customer demand for a hot new book, thousands of Christian booksellers are opting out of the Harry Potter whirlwind for reasons of conscience and faith, leaving secular bookstores to reap the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Episcopal House of Deputies Denounces Scouts’ Policy Against Gays (RNS) Even though the Boy Scouts of America can legally bar gay Scouts and leaders from membership, the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies said Monday (July 10) that Scout troops associated with local churches should not discriminate against gays who want […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Episcopal House of Deputies Denounces Scouts’ Policy Against Gays (RNS) Even though the Boy Scouts of America can legally bar gay Scouts and leaders from membership, the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies said Monday (July 10) that Scout troops associated with local churches should not discriminate against gays who want […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Bomb Attack on Church in Southern India (RNS) A bomb exploded outside a Christian church Sunday (July 9) in southern India, the second such attack in less than two days. No one was injured in the attack at St. Peter’s and Paul Church in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state, but […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Bomb Attack on Church in Southern India (RNS) A bomb exploded outside a Christian church Sunday (July 9) in southern India, the second such attack in less than two days. No one was injured in the attack at St. Peter’s and Paul Church in Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state, but […]
NEWS STORY: Episcopalians Reject Sin of “Heterosexism’’
By Kein Eckstrom — July 10, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service DENVER _ Most Episcopalians readily acknowledge that their church can do more to accommodate gays and lesbians, but calling their shortcomings a “sin” is further than the church is willing to go. Delegates to the church’s triennial General Convention, meeting here through July 13, rejected a resolution on Friday (July […]
NEWS STORY: Episcopalians Reject Sin of “Heterosexism’’
By Kein Eckstrom — July 10, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service DENVER _ Most Episcopalians readily acknowledge that their church can do more to accommodate gays and lesbians, but calling their shortcomings a “sin” is further than the church is willing to go. Delegates to the church’s triennial General Convention, meeting here through July 13, rejected a resolution on Friday (July […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Rabbis’ Ban on the Internet Heeded _ Sometimes
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When the rebbe of the Hassidic Belz ultra-Orthodox sect recently ordered his followers to stop using the Internet as a leisure-time recreational outlet, Eliezer Ram took his brand new home computer out of the house and gave it away. “It was kind of tough to swallow,” recalled the […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Rabbis’ Ban on the Internet Heeded _ Sometimes
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When the rebbe of the Hassidic Belz ultra-Orthodox sect recently ordered his followers to stop using the Internet as a leisure-time recreational outlet, Eliezer Ram took his brand new home computer out of the house and gave it away. “It was kind of tough to swallow,” recalled the […]
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 […]
