Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood is an author at Religion News Service.
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Kate Kelly joins hundreds outside Mormon headquarters for mass-resignation event
By Benjamin Wood — July 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) With a signed letter in hand, Stephanie Engle joined roughly 100 current and former Mormons -- including Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly -- at a mass-resignation event a block from the church’s downtown headquarters.
NEWS FEATURE: Modern Army Continues to Struggle With Combat Ethics
By Benjamin Wood — June 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The story, a cruel morality play, will haunt him forever. On a combat sweep through rural hamlets of South Vietnam, U.S. Marines accidentally wounded a 4-year-old child, torn by shrapnel from a hand grenade. James Webb, then a 23-year-old company commander: “My medic came up to me carrying […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Kosovo stirs European Christian fears of Islam
By Benjamin Wood — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The air campaign against Yugoslavia may look like just another modern push-button techno-war, but it has plunged the United States and NATO into a maelstrom of centuries-old ethnic and religious passions and terrors. Prime among the often-overlooked facts of the Balkans’ latest war: The ethnic Albanian rebels in […]
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