Monthly Archives: June 1996
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Warner beats Christian conservative-backed foe in Virginia GOP primary (RNS)-Virginia Sen. John W. Warner won an overwhelming Republican primary victory Tuesday (June 11) in a vote that some have interpreted as a defeat for Christian conservatives. Warner, a three-term incumbent, garnered about 66 percent of the vote to defeat challenger […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Warner beats Christian conservative-backed foe in Virginia GOP primary (RNS)-Virginia Sen. John W. Warner won an overwhelming Republican primary victory Tuesday (June 11) in a vote that some have interpreted as a defeat for Christian conservatives. Warner, a three-term incumbent, garnered about 66 percent of the vote to defeat challenger […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
By Carl Anderson — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church’s intensifying campaign against euthanasia. The action is likely to take the form of a message on behalf of the country’s 300 […]
NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
By Carl Anderson — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church’s intensifying campaign against euthanasia. The action is likely to take the form of a message on behalf of the country’s 300 […]
NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout the South. In a speech Wednesday at the rededication of Mount […]
NEWS STORY: Clinton calls on clergy to speak out against racism
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Heeding a call Wednesday (June 12) from President Clinton, religious leaders from across the country said they plan to speak out from the pulpit against racism and offer aid to African-American churches destroyed by a string of arsons throughout the South. In a speech Wednesday at the rededication of Mount […]
NEWS STORY: Southern Baptists vote to boycott Disney over gay issue
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in New Orleans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday (June 12) to urge its members to boycott Walt Disney Co. theme parks, films and other products because of the company’s”promotion of homosexuality”and adult-themed movies.”In recent years, The Disney Company has given the appearance that the promotion of homosexuality is more […]
COMMENTARY: Now that the rally is over, how do we stand for children?
By James Alan Fox — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Paul Fox is a physician in Farmington, Pa., and a member of the Bruderhof, a communal Christian movement based in Rifton, N.Y. He is editor-at-large of The Plough, a Bruderhof quarterly magazine.) (RNS)-The”Stand for Children”rally has come and gone. The 250,000 participants in the June 1 demonstration in the nation’s […]
COMMENTARY: God knows who the arsonists are
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Phillip Morris is an associate editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s editorial page.) (RNS)-Southern black churches are on fire again-30 in the past 18 months-and the combustion has little to do with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, revival or the approaching millennium. The churches are going up because they […]
TOP STORY: THE CHARISMATIC EXPERIENCE: Spirited Toronto flock shakes, rattles, rolls—and howls
By Chris Smith — June 13, 1996
A Pentecostal church in Toronto made headlines for its controversial charismatic practices.
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Southern Baptists to collect money for burned black churches (RNS)-Southern Baptists plan to pass the collection plate Wednesday night (June 12) during their annual meeting in New Orleans to support the black churches that have been victimized in a recent spate of church fires.”This is the first time we’ve taken […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Southern Baptists to collect money for burned black churches (RNS)-Southern Baptists plan to pass the collection plate Wednesday night (June 12) during their annual meeting in New Orleans to support the black churches that have been victimized in a recent spate of church fires.”This is the first time we’ve taken […]
NEWS FEATURE: REVIEW: Recordings offer many sides of spiritual music
By Buffy Spencer — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-If you’re looking for music with a distinctly spiritual flavor, here’s a sampling of CDs from Catholic, Orthodox and American-communal Christian traditions as well as others that stir the brain cells and alternately soothe and jangle the sensibilities. “Early Shaker Spirituals” (Rounder). American musicians from Aaron Copland to Richie Havens […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
