Monthly Archives: July 1996
BYU prof called God `Mother’ and lost her job
By RNS Blog Editor — July 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SALT LAKE CITY _ Brigham Young University English professor and feminist Gail Turley Houston has been given her walking papers. Among the reasons listed for Turley’s dismissal from BYU, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, was that she chose to refer to God as”mother”well as”father.” […]
Iakovos: Milestones in the life of a religious leader
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here are highlights in the life of Archbishop Iakovos, who for 39 years led the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America and was a spokesman for all branches of Orthodox Christianity. Origins: Demetrios Coucouzis is born July 29, 1911, on the Greek-populated Island of Imvros, Turkey. Education: […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Guatemalan Presbyterians say paramilitary groups wage violence on church (RNS) The Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Guatemala says it has become the target of a systematic campaign of intimidation and violence waged by paramilitary groups and “conservative religious fanatics.” According to ALC, an ecumenical news agency based in Lima, Peru, the […]
COMMENTARY: Conversing across the ages with some very important people
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton imagined talking with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mohandas K. Gandhi set me thinking. Which people of the past would I choose as conversational partners? Assuming that such communication is possible (e-mail, pagers […]
COMMENTARY: A spiritual coming of age
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is author of “Turn Toward the Wind” and publisher of Religion News Service.) (UNDATED) My oldest son turns 13 next week. While many of his friends celebrate this passage with a bar mitzvah or confirmation, Chase will ease into the teenage years with mostly secular festivities. Presbyterians […]
TOP STORY: ANNULLING A CATHOLIC MARRIAGE: Catholic Church is changing its attitudes on annulment
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) After his divorce and before he remarried in the Roman Catholic Church, Joseph DeCastra of Hoover, Ala., applied for an annulment and got it in less than a year. His was one of more than 59,000 U.S. annulments and 76,829 worldwide in 1992 _ a stark contrast to the […]
TOP STORY: THE AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH—SIDEBAR: Iakovos: Milestones in the life of a religiou
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here are highlights in the life of Archbishop Iakovos, who for 39 years led the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America and was a spokesman for all branches of Orthodox Christianity. Origins: Demetrios Coucouzis is born July 29, 1911, on the Greek-populated Island of Imvros, Turkey. Education: […]
TOP STORY: THE AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: Orthodox Christians say goodbye to a man for all seasons
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The memorial service had just concluded for the Rev. James Reeb, a Boston minister beaten to death in 1965 by white toughs in Selma, Ala., who could not abide the idea of a white man defending a black man’s cause. Standing beside Martin Luther King, Jr. and […]
NEWS UPDATE: CHURCH FIRES: Clinton calls for emergency funds to fight church fires
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As the number of suspicious fires at mostly black, Southern churches climbed to more than 40 in the last 18 months, President Clinton called Tuesday (July 2) for an emergency transfer of money to help combat the attacks. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Clinton called for […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Russian politician apologizes for slur on foreign religions (RNS) Alexander Lebed, a retired general who heads Russia’s Security Council, apologized Tuesday (July 2) for calling Mormons and other non-Russian religions “filth and scum.” “I didn’t want to offend anyone,” Lebed told a news conference in Moscow. But he also reiterated […]
NEWS STORY: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Kuwaiti convert to Christianity appeals apostasy verdict
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ International concern is growing as a Kuwaiti Christian convert appeals the court verdict that found him guilty of apostasy. Under Islamic law, the court said, anyone convicted of apostasy “should be executed.” On May 29, Shiite religious court in Kuwait City found Hussein Qambar Ali, 45, who converted […]
COMMENTARY: Who’s really on the fringe here?
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (EDITORS: Check RNS Online for a photo of Pythia Peay.) (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.) (UNDATED) Did Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — July 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service EDITORS: Koeltl in 42nd graph is cq. Presbyterians elect peacemaker as moderator (RNS) The Rev. John Buchanan, pastor of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church _ a centrist who says he does not object to the ordination of homosexuals _ has been elected to a one-year term as moderator of the Presbyterian […]
DEATH AND DYING: Long before Kevorkian, Chicago doctor fueled death debate
By RNS Blog Editor — July 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ Long before Jack Kevorkian helped his first patient die and even before his birth, another American doctor galvanized debate about physician-assisted deaths. In 1915, Chicago surgeon Harry Haiselden held a news conference to announce his refusal to operate to save a 4-day-old baby’s life. Haiselden withheld […]
TOP STORY: GUNS AND JUSTICE: Bereaved women take on the gun industry
By RNS Blog Editor — July 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ In a cramped and cluttered Wall Street office, there is the female attorney with a hair-trigger temper and the passion for a longshot. Fifty-one stories below, in neighborhoods across the length and breadth of this city, are wives and mothers, each of whose lives was transformed in […]
