Monthly Archives: January 2003
NEWS STORY: NAE Says Faith-Based Funding Should Not Include Anti-Bias Provisions
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. _ The right of faith-based organizations to hire and fire staff must be retained as the federal government seeks to make more funds for social services available to them, the National Association of Evangelicals said Thursday (March 6). Members of the evangelical umbrella organization adopted a resolution […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service Bush Petitions Supreme Court to Hear Pledge Case WASHINGTON (RNS) The Bush administration has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a lower court decision and allow the Pledge of Allegiance to include the words “one nation under God.” U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson said last summer’s ruling by […]
NEWS FEATURE: Agnostic Questions if AA Is the Way
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service TOLEDO, Ohio _ Lou Peters accepts that he was wrong for driving drunk three years ago. But he cannot accept that God is the answer. Peters, 59, is an agnostic. So when a judge ordered him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, the former hobby shop owner chose 30 days in jail […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Ten Commandments Symbolize the Sacred for Evangelicals
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ To Alabama’s dominant evangelical Christian population, the Ten Commandments stand as a powerful symbol of the sacred, not a quaint myth about the origins of law. “Evangelical Christians, particularly here in Alabama, have a strong conviction that it’s part of biblically inspired Scripture,” said Don Hawkins, president […]
NEWS FEATURE: A Book of Nun Fun: Sisters Share Tales of What School Kids Say
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The sermon went on and on, and a little boy in the front row started talking during Mass. Sister Adelle told the child sitting next to her to go up and tell him to keep quiet. The boy dutifully walked up to the front, then past the boy […]
NEWS STORY: Dwindling Numbers Force Nuns to Sell Monastery
By Jeff Diamant — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ For 121 years, nuns have prayed for the troubled world outside the stone walls of the Monastery of St. Dominic here, living almost unknown to their neighbors. Although more than 100 nuns have spent their years in cloistered contemplation at the monastery since 1882, it has been […]
COMMENTARY: Commandments Not Written in Stone
By Tom Feran — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There’s one little problem with the Ten Commandments that Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has been fighting to keep in the lobby of the state judicial building in Montgomery. The commandments aren’t numbered on the 21/2-ton, jukebox-size granite monument that Moore moved secretly into the […]
COMMENTARY: Rape No Therapy for Trauma of Rape
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Serice (The Rev. Marie M. Fortune is editor of the Journal of Religion and Abuse and founder of the Seattle-based Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence. She is the author of “Is Nothing Sacred? The Story of a Pastor, the Women He Sexually Abused, and the Congregation He […]
COMMENTARY: Near-Future of Catholicism in America Is a Close Call
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David Gibson, former religion writer for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., is author of “The Coming Catholic Church” (HarperSanFrancisco), to be published June 30.) (UNDATED) More than a year after the Catholic hierarchy gathered in Dallas to try to head off the galloping clergy sexual abuse scandal, and in the […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Comfort in a Time of War _ Online and Off
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Servic (UNDATED) At an online “prayer chapel” of the United Church of Christ, military relatives are sharing prayer requests for the safe return of their loved ones. The Jewish Federation of Rockland County, N.Y., has started “Operation Matzo Meals” to send care packages to Jewish troops who may celebrate Passover in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Serevice Presbyterians Tweak Late-Term Abortion Policy DENVER (RNS) The Presbyterian Church (USA) revised its position on late-term abortions Thursday (May 29) to say a fetus should not be aborted to save the life of the mother if it could survive outside the womb. Delegates to the church’s annual General Assembly meeting […]
NEWS FEATURE: Public Radio Program Lets Believers Speak Their Faith At Length
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News (UNDATED) Krista Tippett has spent time in journalistic, diplomatic and theological circles. But it was her time on a lakefront, wooded property taking oral histories of people involved in the 20th century movement for church unity that led her to start a radio program called “Speaking of Faith.” The hourlong show, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service Bishops’ Labor Day Statement Appeals for Migrant Workers WASHINGTON (RNS) The annual Labor Day statement by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops appeals for fair treatment for migrant farm workers who “still have a claim on our conscience.” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, chairman of the bishops’ domestic policy committee, said […]
NEWS STORY: Seventh-day Adventists Report Increase of Close to 1 Million Members
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service SILVER SPRING, Md. _ The Seventh-day Adventist Church has grown to a total of 13.3 million baptized members worldwide, an increase of almost a million in the last year. The statistics, as of Oct. 10, were reported at the church’s Annual Council of the General Conference Committee, which concluded here […]
NEWS FEATURE: Prayer Book Explores Jewish Roots of Christian Prayer Cycle
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2003
c. Religion News Service “Sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs among yourselves, singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, always and everywhere giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 5:19- 20 (UNDATED) The first major literary and liturgical reworking of the Benedictine […]
