Monthly Archives: September 2004
NEWS STORY: Faith-Based Election Drives Inspire Voters on the Right and Left
By RNS Blog Editor — September 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As states’ voter registration deadlines for the November election approach, conservative and liberal religious groups are pounding on doors and ringing every phone in their directory to reach potential supporters. While there is nothing new about old-fashioned “doorbelling” itself, faith-based groups are out with more intensity and better organization […]
NEWS STORY: Bush, Kerry Take Vastly Different Approaches to Religion in Public Life
By RNS Blog Editor — September 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) One candidate is from the Bible Belt and likes to tell the story of how God redeemed him from a life of destructive drinking, which made him a better husband and public servant for such a time as this. The other hails from the Northeast, where religion is a […]
NEWS STORY: Journalists Honored for Coverage of Religion
By RNS Blog Editor — September 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A religion writer at The San Diego Union-Tribune was named religion reporter of the year and the editor of Religion News Service was given a lifetime achievement award at the annual awards ceremony of the Religion Newswriters Association. Sandi Dolbee, the immediate past president of the association, earned […]
NEWS STORY: Muslim Leaders Push for Shariah Law in British Columbia
By RNS Blog Editor — September 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ Some prominent Muslim leaders would like the Canadian province of British Columbia to formally allow Islamic shariah law to be used to arbitrate decisions regarding marriage, divorce, inheritance and other family disputes. These influential Muslims want to follow the lead of some eastern Canadian Muslims who […]
RNS Weekly Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Third Federal Judge Strikes Down `Partial-Birth’ Abortion Ban (RNS) A third federal judge ruled Wednesday (Sept. 8) that a law against “partial-birth” abortions is unconstitutional because it ignores parameters set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Lincoln, Neb., agreed with two other federal […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Editors: Carman in 8th graf is CQ Paul Crouch Did Not Have Homosexual Encounter, Religious Network Says (RNS) Trinity Broadcasting Network has denied allegations that its president, Paul Crouch, was involved in a homosexual encounter and says he will remain at the helm of his California ministry. The Los Angeles […]
COMMENTARY: What We Had, What We Lost, What We Have
By Tom Ehrich — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C. Visit his Web site at http://www.onajourney.org.) (UNDATED) I skip an end-of-summer swim party but overhear the disc jockey’s concluding salute to America, a song radiating patriotic rage and promising to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Book Tries to Heal Hurt of Those Abused by Priests
By Bruce Nolan — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ As with many other victims of sexual abuse, Mona Villarrubia’s psychic damage lay buried and ticking away for years, long after the acts stopped during her childhood in England. It emerged with a fury in the late 1980s when Villarrubia, a young mother and a Catholic high […]
Religious Left Says It’s Ready for Major Political Push
By RNS Blog Editor — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Ed. note: Photo to accompany this article is available from https://religionnews.com. To download photos from the RNS photo Web site, call 800-767-6781.) NEW YORK _ With a full-page ad in the New York Times, a flashlight-illuminated protest on Broadway and a plea from rock star Bono for spiritually motivated, poverty-fighting […]
NEWS FEATURE: Beliefs of Evangelical Voters Don’t Fit Into Neat Box
By Gilbert H. Caldwell — September 15, 2004
c. 2004 Beliefnet (UNDATED) The mammoth Lancaster County Bible Church in Manheim, Pa., sits like a shopping mall alongside a four-lane highway that cuts across Pennsylvania’s green countryside. A megachurch with more than 4,000 members, it boasts its own Starbucks-style cafe, a bookstore and a gigantic parking lot overseen by volunteer traffic control monitors. The […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 11, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Black Church Leaders Seek Caucus Support for Marriage Amendment (RNS) A group of African-American church leaders opposed to gay marriage have asked members of the Congressional Black Caucus to support a constitutional amendment to “protect marriage.” “As bishops, pastors, ministers, evangelists and leaders, we want to join forces with you […]
NEWS STORY: Spiritual Adviser, White House Official Speak on Bush’s Faith
By Adelle M. Banks — September 11, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ President Bush doesn’t believe he received divine direction to run for the nation’s highest office or to wage war, a man who has acted as his spiritual adviser told religion reporters Friday (Sept. 10). The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, pastor of a Houston church, was a surprise guest accompanying […]
NEWS FEATURE: Small Chapel Becomes Keeper of Sept. 11’s Spiritual Flame
By Judy Peet — September 11, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The bells toll at 12:30 p.m. at the Episcopal chapel across the street from the World Trade Center site, but Gary Just of Glen Rock, N.J., is already praying in one of the scarred pews. So are the honeymooners from Italy and the 12-year-old British Columbian. None […]
COMMENTARY: Sept. 11 and the Mystery of Pain Nobody Can Solve
By Frances Kennedy — September 10, 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) We come to the third anniversary of Sept. 11 with many explanations of how […]
NEWS FEATURE: Alternative Jewish Minyans Promote Equality but Keep Tradition
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — September 10, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When Jill Levy, 28, stepped off the plane three years ago after studying in Israel, the first place she went was Central Park for a Friday evening service at Kehilat Hadar, a vibrant alternative prayer community in New York City. Hadar, as it is known, is one of a […]
