Monthly Archives: January 1996

COMMENTARY: Some lessons from the real world are better left unlearned

By James Rudin — January 5, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-A recent survey of Protestant ministers in the United States presents some depressing news: Nearly 25 percent have reported being dismissed or forced to resign from their congregations. While no precise data is available for the Jewish […]

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By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Study finds high number of clergy fired or forced to resign during career (RNS)-A national survey of Protestant clergy has found that an unusually high number-22.8 percent-say they have either been fired or forced […]

COMMENTARY: We have nothing to fear but God

By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 3, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and the publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS)-Americans are running scared. They’re scared of violence, even though crime, overall, is down. They’re afraid of losing their jobs, even though the economy is relatively stable. And they’re afraid of cancer, heart attacks […]

TOP STORY: AN ACT OF FAITH: Memphis mother crusades against city’s sex trade

By Angela Waters — January 3, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Carolyn McKenzie has learned to follow faith’s footprints. Faith led her as an Army nurse through the emotional land mines of Vietnam. Years later, faith guided her in a hospital as her baby son nearly died of bacterial meningitis. Now, at age 48, faith leads her out of […]

Eternal gridlock awaits millenial pilgrims in the eternal city

By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-As ancient Rome prepares for the third Christian millennium, one thing is already clear. The celebration will be no Roman holiday-not for the guests and not for the hosts. When Pope John Paul II, the putative master of ceremonies, recently observed that in Christianity “time has a fundamental […]

Portrayals of Virgin Mary reflect cultural cross-currents

By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996

c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-In the Gospel of St. Luke, it is written: “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. “The virgin’s name was Mary.” Mary-the humble […]

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Archaeologist claims to have found where Ark of Covenant once lay

By Adelle M. Banks — January 3, 1996

c. 1995 Religion News Service (RNS)-One of the great mysteries for biblical scholars and believers alike is exactly where the Ark of the Covenant stood in the temple King Solomon built in Jerusalem nearly 3,000 years ago. The Ark of the Covenant itself-the wooden chest used to store the stone tablets on which the Ten […]

“It was the right thing to do,“says Episcopal bishop accused of heresy

By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996

c. 1995 Religion News Service (RNS)-Walter C. Righter is a white-haired grandfather who lives with his wife in a small hillside house in rural New Hampshire. He’s 72, an age when many people are enjoying retirement. But Righter is facing charges of heresy-the second bishop ever to stand so accused in the 206-year history of […]

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