Monthly Archives: August 1996
NEWS STORY: Moon no longer a pariah to mainstream religionists
By Ira Rifkin — August 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ There was a time when associating with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was a distinct no-no for more mainstream religionists who generally regarded Moon’s Unification Church as a cult. But the speakers list for this week’s Moon-sponsored conference in Washington is evidence that despite his theology and controversial […]
COMMENTARY: Let’s return to a purer idea of sport
By RNS Blog Editor — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) I hate the Olympics. I hate the ballyhoo and […]
VALUES STORY: The disabling effects of violence
By Dennis R. Hoover — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Six years after enactment of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a small but disturbing new group is swelling the ranks of the disabled: young victims of violence _ from gang members surviving gunshot wounds to children harmed by abuse. It’s an alarming development being noticed in all corners of […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican, Pentecostals seek to ease tensions over conversion efforts
By Adelle M. Banks — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) What does it mean to spread the faith? What are appropriate ways for missionaries to seek converts? How do people of faith respond to the pressures of a secular society? What is more important: proclaiming the Gospel or pursuing social justice? Pentecostal and Roman Catholic leaders grappled with these […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Ohio court says Cleveland voucher plan for religious schools is okay (RNS) An Ohio state court ruled Wednesday (July 31) that a school voucher program in Cleveland that allows students to use public money to pay tuition at private and religious schools is constitutional. The ruling, certain to be contested, […]
COMMENTARY: Diary of a Congressional witness
By James Rudin — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) I recently presented testimony in Washington, D.C., before the House Judiciary Subcommittee that is considering a constitutional amendment on religion. Two entries in my diary speak volumes about the current religious and political climate in America. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Buchanan urges GOP plank opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide (RNS) Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, who challenged Bob Dole for the Republican presidential nomination this year, has urged inclusion in the GOP’s national platform of a plank condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide. Linking euthanasia and assisted suicide with abortion, Buchanan said […]
TOP STORY: OLD TIME RELIGION: Seaside town a spiritual haven bedeviled with everday woes
By Alan Chambers — August 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service OCEAN GROVE, N.J. _ The musical strains from a soaring pipe organ spread heavily throughout Ocean Grove’s Great Auditorium as 1,700 worshipers take their seats on a sweltering Sunday morning. It’s a good, not great, crowd by the seaside religious resort’s summer standards, but when the choir is joined by […]
COMMENTARY: Delusions of control
By Dale Hanson Bourke — August 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) (UNDATED) The word”control”may not appear in the Bill of Rights, but to most Americans, the concept has become an inalienable right. Advertisers have long understood its power to put Americans in a delusional state. Buy […]
NEWS STORY: Reclusive leader of `Juliusite’ sect dies at 71
By RNS Blog Editor — August 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PLAINVILLE, Conn. _ Julius Schacknow, a leader of a Connecticut religious sect who parlayed his claims to divinity into a multimillion-dollar real estate empire that crumbled in the late 1980s, is dead at the age of 71. Schacknow, who was known as Brother Julius, attained national attention in the 1970s […]
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