Ashbel S. (Tony) Green
Ashbel S. (Tony) Green is an author at Religion News Service.
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Reading Group Studies Bin Laden for Understanding
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — June 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. ÆÂ? Some reading groups choose mysteries, others fiction. Here at Vanderbilt University, one group of professors chose Osama bin Laden as their focus. For nearly a year, these professors of religion, politics, history and law have gathered as a critical audience to bin Laden, a man who looms […]
Persistence Pays Off for Lawyer Suing Vatican
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — December 17, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Process servers have crashed celebrity parties, donned disguises and engaged in car chases _ whatever it takes to put legal papers into the hands of reluctant defendants. But rough-and-tumble tactics won’t work against the Vatican, an independent country located within the city of Rome. To sue a […]
Assisted Suicide Case Early Issue of Religion and Morality for Roberts Court
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — October 5, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The first big case Chief Justice John Roberts and a reshaped U.S. Supreme Court take on this week comes with profound moral and religious questions: doctor-assisted suicide. Political and legal attacks on assisted suicide have raged almost continuously since Oregon voters first approved the Death With Dignity Act in […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars, Interfaith Families Grapple Over What Passport Needed for Heaven
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — March 9, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Theologians and spiritual leaders have grappled with the question for centuries, and pastors often choose packed Easter Sunday services to raise it anew. Who goes to heaven? And perhaps more troubling, who doesn’t? When Abby Meyers first brought it up, she was asking about her own dad. She was […]
NEWS STORY: Church Bankruptcy Puts Courts in Uncharted Area
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — July 10, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ In becoming the first Roman Catholic diocese to file for bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of Portland is gambling that U.S. courts will be loath to interfere with the intimate workings of church operations. Judges hearing bankruptcy cases routinely take intrusive steps to protect creditors. Sometimes they appoint trustees […]
NEWS STORY: Portland Archdiocese Is First in Nation to Declare Bankruptcy
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — July 7, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland announced Tuesday (July 6) it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection rather than proceed with a priest-abuse trial scheduled to begin the same day. It is the first time an American Catholic archdiocese has ever sought bankruptcy protection. Archbishop John […]
COMMENTARY: Help for coping with the ineffective TV-rating system
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of”Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _ Deep in the secret handbook of marketing strategy there must be an axiom: If you give […]
COMMENTARY: Silence is golden, even at the gas pump
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of”Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _ In a north Florida city, just off the interstate, stands a gas station that at first […]
COMMENTARY: False rumors harm peaceful efforts to oppose abortion
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of”Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _ This year Jan. 22, the date of the March for Life, dawned chilly and gray in […]
COMMENTARY: The abortion debate: people can change
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of”Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _”It made me physically ill.” This line jumps out of the account of Ron Fitzsimmons’ admission he […]
COMMENTARY: Albania’s crisis is spiritual more than economic
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of”Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _”Madness,”writes the Rev. Luke Veronis, in one of his daily e-mail messages from his beseiged apartment in […]
COMMENTARY: Church burnings inflame all manner of passions
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — July 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (UNDATED) At the beginning of a summer expected to be long and hot, a shocking charge was made: Racists are burning black churches. In […]
COMMENTARY: In the Texas desert, an icon weeps sweet tears of myrrh
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — July 10, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS) The vast middle of this country is sometimes termed, by bicoastal bigwigs,”Flyover Land.”It’s the land you fly over on your way to somewhere […]
COMMENTARY: Earth to Eleanor: Help Hillary
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-Whenever I try to have a chat with Eleanor Roosevelt, I end up getting the Shopping Channel instead. Guess it’s my fault. I’m just […]
COMMENTARY: As others sleep, a monk-in-training keeps a prayerful vigil
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-“It’s dark outside my window, yet the birds are already busy singing and seem to know that the sun will soon rise.” Thus begins […]
