Greg Garrison
Greg Garrison is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Photographer Shares Images of Dying Tradition
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ With clouds of spray paint hanging thick in the air, photographer Caroline Davis was scrambled on a late October day to renovate a suite on the third floor of the Dr. Pepper Building here. On the walls are the distinctive icons that comprise her life calling _ […]
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelist T.D. Jakes Pens His First Novel
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Although he’s an old-fashioned, pulpit-pounding preacher who frequently has to wipe the sweat from his brow, evangelist T.D. Jakes brings the biblical message into a modern context. In his books and sermons, Jakes tackles issues such as child abuse, domestic violence, unhealthy sexual relationships and changing gender […]
NEWS FEATURE: Accused HealthSouth Executive Logged Pew Time, Donations
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy, accused by federal investigators of overseeing massive accounting fraud, sat through many Sunday sermons on corporate ethics and the hazards of wealth, his pastor says. “Richard has been a part of our church and has heard and responded to strong messages about […]
NEWS FEATURE: `World’s Biggest Church Door’ Opens to Homeless
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth and the poor would get the kingdom of heaven. On a recent Sunday morning at the Church of the Reconciler, the homeless of Birmingham were willing to settle for salad and spaghetti. “They have good food here,” said Howard […]
NEWS FEATURE: Pediatrician in the Pulpit: For Pastor, Medicine, Religion Go Hand in Hand
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ On Sunday morning, the pediatrician in the pulpit of Northside Church of God could hardly avoid working medical references into his sermon. Holding up a baby doll, he compared the growing child to the maturing of a church. “We, the body of Christ, are no longer infants,” […]
NEWS FEATURE: `Celestine Prophecy’ author writes new book on Tibet
By Greg Garrison — November 13, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _With 10 million copies of”The Celestine Prophecy”in print and 6 million of its sequel,”The Tenth Insight,”spiritual novelist James Redfield has become a publishing phenomenon. The soft-spoken Birmingham native, who maintains an Alabama home on a lake surrounded by pine trees, sees himself as an interpreter of universal religious […]
NEWS FEATURE: Women find ways to serve church without ordination
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Wearing a white dress, a white lace veil atop her head and white gloves on her hands, Ida Belle Canty takes a tiny glass of wine from a communion tray held out to her by First Baptist Church of Woodlawn Pastor Odie Hoover. On the first Sunday […]
NEWS FEATURE: Recent papal comments spark debate about the nature of hell
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Pope John Paul II’s recent discussions of heaven, hell and purgatory have stirred up an ancient theological debate: Is hell a real place of burning fire, or a state of mind reflecting a dark, cold emptiness distant from God? In his weekly Vatican speech in late July, John […]
NEWS FEATURE: In some churches, the language of Jesus is still alive
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ To many, it may seem as dead as Latin, but Aramaic _ the language Jesus spoke _ is alive every weekend at St. Elias Maronite Church here and in communities across the nation from San Diego, Calif., to Yonkers, N.Y. “It’s as close as we can get […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars: What do churches need today? John Wesley
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ When theologian Leonard Sweet talks about how to spark a renewal in U.S. churches, he sums it up in one word: Wesley. And when syndicated columnist and church historian Diana Butler Bass talks about how to reverse the shrinking memberships of today’s mainline Protestant churches, she points to […]
For many Americans, church is alien territory
By Greg Garrison — August 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Church attendance has suffered a five-year decline and sunk to its lowest level in two decades, according to research by the Barna Research Group of Glendale, Calif. “From the early ’80s to the early ’90s, there has been a definite change,” said the Rev. Bruce Hose, who was […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: The sky is falling. . . or is it?
By Greg Garrison — June 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A record number of hurricanes blew across the globe in 1995. An earthquake in Kobe, Japan, killed 6,000 and an unusually high number of severe tremors shook the world. Massive blizzards buffeted the United States last winter, followed by rampant flooding. A heat wave in July killed 800 in […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: `Celestine’ sequel means more meditating
By Greg Garrison — February 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)-Being married to the author of one of the most successful spiritual novels ever has given Salle Merrill-Redfield a high profile for promoting feminine spirituality and women’s issues. “My mission is to help women feel good about themselves,”she said.”There’s so much depression, so much anger and sadness.” By […]
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