Monthly Archives: August 1996
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Atlanta pastor chosen Church of God general overseer (RNS) Church of God leaders, moving on from a dispute with their ousted top official, Thursday (Aug. 8) selected the pastor of a prominent Atlanta church as their new general overseer. The Rev. Paul L. Walker, 64, senior pastor of Mount Paran […]
TOP STORY: REPUBLICANS AND RELIGION: San Diego GOP convention is religious right’s moment in t
By Ira Rifkin — August 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When the Rev. Jerry Falwell showed up in Detroit for the 1980 Republican National Convention, he came alone, an anomaly among both Republicans and conservative Christians.”In those days, the philosophical barrier we had to overcome was the belief that religion and politics do not mix,”recalled Falwell, founder of the […]
COMMENTARY: Five years of seeking grist for the columnist’s mill
By James Rudin — August 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) I’ve been writing a weekly Religion News Service column for five years, and this anniversary provides a convenient excuse for some personal reflections. It is also a chance to publicly answer readers’ letters. My favorite column? […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Regent law school gains ABA approval (RNS) After a 10-year wait, Regent University School of Law has received full accreditation from the American Bar Association. The House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, at its annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., voted Tuesday (Aug. 6) to give the Virginia Beach, […]
After dispute over book profits, Church of God looks for a leader
By RNS Blog Editor — August 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service INDIANAPOLIS _ In the wake of a dispute that resulted in the ousting of its top official, an estimated 20,000 members of the Church of God, the nation’s oldest and the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, began meeting here Wednesday (Aug. 7) to choose new leadership for the 4 million-member church. […]
COMMENTARY: Unraveling the mystery of a `prophet of rage’
By RNS Blog Editor — August 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (UNDATED) One Wednesday evening, near the end of the weekly Bible study I run in my prison-church, one of the inmates […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service French bishop slain in Algeria (RNS) Bishop Pierre Claverie, the French-born head of the diocese of Oran, Algeria, was assassinated Thursday (Aug. 1) by a bomb just hours after returning from a ceremony honoring seven French monks slain by Algerian terrorists. Officials from both France and Algeria condemned the attack. […]
COMMENTARY: A chance for common sense to cool America’s gambling fever
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Robert F. Drinan is a Jesuit priest, former member of Congress and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center). (WASHINGTON) For more than a century, gambling was banned throughout the United States. But today, there are only two states _ Utah and Hawaii _ where it is forbidden. Sadly […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Federal Appeals court in Wisconsin upholds religious freedom law (RNS) A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and struck down Wisconsin state regulations barring inmates from wearing religious jewelry because the jewelry might be used as a weapon. A three-judge panel of […]
FEATURE STORY: HE-MAN DEVOTIONS: Is Jesus taking over the men’s movement?
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.) A shadow has fallen over the secular men’s movement, and it looks a lot like a cross. At the end of July, Robert Bly, grandfather of the drum-beating, get-in-touch with your “wild man” branch of the men’s movement, spoke here at a national conference on Men and Masculinity. […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: POLITICS, MORALITY, HYPOCRISY: When did stump speeches start sounding like sermons?
By RNS Blog Editor — August 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Robert Schmuhl is chairman of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and author of”Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality”and”Demanding Democracy,”both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.) (UNDATED) When Americans enter the voting booth, we carry our contradictions with […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Welfare bill divides religious community but most see potential peril (RNS) President Clinton’s pledge to sign Republican-sponsored legislation to overhaul the nation’s welfare system, ending a 60-year federal commitment to the poor, has drawn reactions in the religious community ranging from anger to dismay and disappointment. But some providers of […]
COMMENTARY: The real gap involves morality, not gender,
By RNS Blog Editor — August 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) In our era of special interest politics, […]
TOP STORY: SCIENCE AND RELIGION: Anatomy of a blessing: Thanking those who gave bodies to science
By Bruce Nolan — August 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ As memorial services go it was straightforward, brief _ soft music, dimmed lights and heartfelt verse that moistened the eyes of a few of the students in jeans and sweatshirts who had gathered among the anatomy lab’s coffin-like stainless steel tanks. This was the end. The students […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: What will it take to fix the papacy?
By RNS Blog Editor — August 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ There is something wrong with the papacy. It’s been whispered for years inside the Roman Catholic Church and hinted at in ecumenical dialogues that this monarchial office is an anachronism in modern times, out of touch with people it serves and faltering in its mission to unify […]
