Monthly Archives: September 2006
Famous Shrine Lowers the Bar for Healings
By Elizabeth Bryant — September 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service LOURDES, France _ For nearly 150 years, millions of pilgrims have flocked to this tiny town nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, where a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous is said to have witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1858. They come in wheelchairs, on stretchers […]
Campus Religious Groups Try to Hook Students Early
By RNS Blog Editor — September 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The Rev. Mark Schaefer knows how to throw a good party, and offering free food to hungry college freshmen is a sure-fire way to satisfy guests. Making the rounds, Schaefer talks to the students and thanks them for attending the recent Friday-night event at American University, aptly named […]
COMMENTARY: A Different Kind of New Year
By RNS Blog Editor — September 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Come Dec. 31, people all over the world will party hearty on New Year’s Eve, drinking, dining and dancing. Only when the party’s over do they really face the music: forcing themselves to the gym, signing on to the South Beach diet and resolving to better themselves in the […]
COMMENTARY: An Intense, Sobering and Exhilarating Visit
By James Rudin — September 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) I recently visited Israel as part of a four-day, 120-person Solidarity Mission sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. We visited three weeks after the United Nations cease fire went into effect with Lebanon. AJC representatives joined with U.S. Christian leaders, Per Ahlmark, a former deputy prime minister of Sweden, […]
Lawsuits Away
By RNS Blog Editor — September 14, 2006
Suit Filed to Stop Bush Marriage Initiative RNS’s Daniel Burke reports on a lawsuit filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State to halt government grants to a program which offers Bible-based marriage workshops, in this week’s full-text article, linked above. Quote: “We haven’t done anything wrong and we have not used any […]
Orthodox Jews Fight Over Who Owns the Middle Ground
By Ira Rifkin — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Yet another permutation of the culture war convulsing religions worldwide has surfaced, this time within American Orthodox Judaism. It’s a struggle for dominance between those who see traditional faith as fully compatible with contemporary culture and those who reject the culture and prefer to live apart. So […]
Orthodox Jews Fight Over Who Owns the Middle Ground
By Ira Rifkin — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Yet another permutation of the culture war convulsing religions worldwide has surfaced, this time within American Orthodox Judaism. It’s a struggle for dominance between those who see traditional faith as fully compatible with contemporary culture and those who reject the culture and prefer to live apart. So […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Episcopal Summit in New York Yields No Way Forward (RNS) A three-day summit of Episcopal bishops was not able to resolve the denomination’s intense disputes over its new top prelate and the role of gays and lesbians in the church. “We recognized the need to provide sufficient space, but were […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Episcopal Summit in New York Yields No Way Forward (RNS) A three-day summit of Episcopal bishops was not able to resolve the denomination’s intense disputes over its new top prelate and the role of gays and lesbians in the church. “We recognized the need to provide sufficient space, but were […]
Jews to Toss Bread as They Cast Off Sins
By Ansley Roan — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Jews around the country will visit rivers, beaches and streams on the second full day of Rosh Hashana (Sept. 24), the Jewish New Year. Many of them will have bread in their pockets. Police will stop traffic at several intersections to allow members of Temple Israel of Greater Miami […]
Jews to Toss Bread as They Cast Off Sins
By Ansley Roan — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Jews around the country will visit rivers, beaches and streams on the second full day of Rosh Hashana (Sept. 24), the Jewish New Year. Many of them will have bread in their pockets. Police will stop traffic at several intersections to allow members of Temple Israel of Greater Miami […]
Court Says Tithing Not an Option for the Bankrupt
By RNS Blog Editor — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When the collection plate goes around at weekly services, America’s charitable but bankrupt worshippers must now abstain. A federal judge has reluctantly ordered debtors to repay their credit-card bills first. Judge Robert E. Littlefield Jr. of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York has […]
Court Says Tithing Not an Option for the Bankrupt
By RNS Blog Editor — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ When the collection plate goes around at weekly services, America’s charitable but bankrupt worshippers must now abstain. A federal judge has reluctantly ordered debtors to repay their credit-card bills first. Judge Robert E. Littlefield Jr. of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York has […]
Orthodox Jews Fight Over Who Owns the Middle Ground
By Ira Rifkin — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Yet another permutation of the culture war convulsing religions worldwide has surfaced, this time within American Orthodox Judaism. It’s a struggle for dominance between those who see traditional faith as fully compatible with contemporary culture and those who reject the culture and prefer to live apart. So […]
Orthodox Jews Fight Over Who Owns the Middle Ground
By Ira Rifkin — September 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Yet another permutation of the culture war convulsing religions worldwide has surfaced, this time within American Orthodox Judaism. It’s a struggle for dominance between those who see traditional faith as fully compatible with contemporary culture and those who reject the culture and prefer to live apart. So […]
