Monthly Archives: May 2004
COMMENTARY: Developments Old and New Inform Orthodox `Diakonia’
By Sophia Kishkovsky — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (A longtime ecumenical leader, the Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky is the Orthodox Church in America’s assistant to the chancellor for interchurch relations and ecumenical witness. He is vice chairman of the board of directors of International Orthodox Christian Charities.) (UNDATED) On May 1, when 10 new member countries joined the European […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Tells Conservative Religious Editors He’s Cultural `Change Agent’
By Adelle M. Banks — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Bush described himself as a cultural change agent in a group interview with editors and writers of conservative Christian publications. “… The job of a president is to help cultures change,” Bush told the nine writers and executives, according to an edited transcript posted Friday (May 28) […]
NEWS STORY: Poll: Most Catholics Oppose Bishops’ Political Pressure
By Kein Eckstrom — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The vast majority of U.S. Catholics want their bishops to stay out of politics, and an even larger number say political pressure from prelates will not affect their vote in November, a poll released Thursday (May 27) shows. The poll by Quinnipiac University of registered voters nationwide offers a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Actor Stephen Baldwin Now Leading Christian Man
By Greg Garrison — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Before leaving for his 11-year-old daughter Alaia’s ballet recital, actor Stephen Baldwin had to fend off 8-year-old daughter Hailey, who began calling for him as he talked on the telephone with a reporter. “Tell your mother we’re going to leave in nine minutes,” he told Hailey. Soon, Baldwin was […]
NEWS FEATURE: RNS Religion Calendar
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here is the RNS calendar of religious holidays, events and meetings for June and July. It is updated monthly. June 1-4 International Church of the Foursquare Gospel: annual convention, San Francisco. Contact: Ron Williams at 213-989-4221; e-mail: ron(at)foursquare.org; Web site: http://www.foursquare.org June 2-5 National Black Evangelical Association: 40th anniversary […]
NEWS FEATURE: Gifts To Nourish The Graduate’s Soul
By Kristen Campbell — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) ‘Tis the season for graduation, and while you can’t go wrong with practical gifts like laundry bags and quarters, sometimes you’re looking for something a little more ethereal. Still, shopping for the intangible can be tricky. Here are 10 graduation gift ideas that will nourish the soul. Milk and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 29, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Billy Graham’s Crusades Postponed as Evangelist Recuperates (RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham’s two 2004 crusades have been postponed until the fall to allow the 85-year-old preacher time to recuperate from a fractured pelvis. The event originally scheduled for June 17-20 in Kansas City, Mo., is now planned for Oct. 7-10, the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Exhibits Explore Faith of `Greatest Generation’
By RNS Blog Editor — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Two exhibits highlighting faith during World War II are already drawing visitors as veterans and others around the country travel to Washington, D.C., this weekend (May 29-30) for the dedication of the National World War II Memorial. The exhibits are part of “America Celebrates the Greatest Generation,” a […]
COMMENTARY: If Sorrow Is Invisible, Why Do We See So Much Of It?
By Frances Kennedy — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Eugene Cullen Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author of “Cardinal Bernardin’s Stations of the Cross,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) Norman Mailer once observed of a political convention whose atmosphere was heavy with “do-gooder” […]
COMMENTARY: Book Takes on Charge that Jews were `Christ-Killers’
By James Rudin — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University.) (UNDATED) France’s World War I premier, Georges Clemenceau warned, “War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.” Similarly, some religious issues are too serious to be entrusted solely […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Pope Names Cardinal Law to Post in Rome VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope John Paul II has named Cardinal Bernard Law, the controversial former archbishop of Boston, to the ceremonial post of archpriest of the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major, the Vatican said Thursday (May 27). Law, 72, has been […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops Moderate Stance on Communion, Politics
By Kein Eckstrom — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) One week after a Colorado bishop shocked Catholics by saying it was a sin to vote for abortion-rights politicians, other prominent bishops have urged caution in denying Communion through more moderate statements. While not wavering in their opposition to abortion, leading bishops have indicated that dissenting lay Catholics should […]
NEWS FEATURE: Transhumanism Takes Technology to the Level of Faith
By RNS Blog Editor — May 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Humanity is on its way out. Post-humanity _ technologically enhanced and perhaps even immortal _ is coming. The stuff of science fiction? No, it’s creed to transhumanists, a diverse group of technological optimists who advocate the transformation of homo sapiens into a new species, one “better than human.” Transhumanists […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jimmy Carter _ Still the World’s Most Famous Sunday School Teacher
By Christine Harvey — May 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PLAINS, Ga. _ A little more than 100 miles and several light-years southwest of Atlanta lies a bucolic hamlet surrounded by pine trees, pecan groves and peanut farms. A short row of turn-of-the-century buildings, including an antiques store, trading post and modern post office, form the downtown. Across the silent […]
NEWS DIGEST: Religion in Canada
By Ron Csillag — May 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Faith to Cause Most Tension, Poll Shows MONTREAL (RNS) For the first time in years, religion has surpassed language as the expected cause of social strife in the coming years, according to a poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies. The poll, conducted by Environics between March 29 and […]
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