Cecile Holmes
Cecile Holmes is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Cecile Holmes
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Look at `Jesus Genre’ in the Movies
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ From Cecil B. DeMille’s “The King of Kings” in 1927 to Denys Arcand’s “Jesus of Montreal” in 1989, films about Jesus have sought a middle ground between the filmmaker’s message and the figure described in the Gospels. Scholars from the Society of Biblical Literature explored the implications […]
NEWS STORY: Scholars Question Media Treatment of `Other’ Religions
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ American media have misconstrued the impact of Eastern religions in global politics and conflicts since the days of Vietnam, scholars told the recent annual meeting here of the American Academy of Religion. As faiths, including Buddhism, have grown in America, the media also have misappropriated images from […]
NEWS STORY: Scholars Question Media Treatment of `Other’ Religions
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ American media have misconstrued the impact of Eastern religions in global politics and conflicts since the days of Vietnam, scholars told the recent annual meeting here of the American Academy of Religion. As faiths, including Buddhism, have grown in America, the media also have misappropriated images from […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Look at `Jesus Genre’ in the Movies
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ From Cecil B. DeMille’s “The King of Kings” in 1927 to Denys Arcand’s “Jesus of Montreal” in 1989, films about Jesus have sought a middle ground between the filmmaker’s message and the figure described in the Gospels. Scholars from the Society of Biblical Literature explored the implications […]
NEWS FEATURE: Holocaust-era Torah Scroll Preserved in Houston
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ If history had happened according to the Nazis’ plans, a historic Torah scroll now owned by a Houston synagogue would be on display in an atrocious museum. As part of their genocide of European Jewry, the Nazis had considered opening an “Exotic Museum of an Extinct Race” after […]
Rabbis in Texas and the World They Made and Served
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ In the public imagination, longhorns, oil wells and space shuttles loom large in Texas history, as do names such as Lyndon Baines Johnson and Barbara Jordan. So do cotton and cowboys. But not rabbis. Still, the men who led Texas’ Jews prior to World War II _ early […]
NEWS FEATURE: Do the Gospels Meet the Legal Test of Evidence
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Pamela Binnings Ewen was a true child of the `60s. She read Ayn Rand, the ultra-libertarian author of”The Fountainhead.”She hung out with people who argued philosophies with names like objectivism and existentialism. She remembers the famous Time magazine cover early in that decade which asked: “Is God dead?” […]
NEWS FEATURE: Teen Christian Singer Posed for Breakthrough
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Though she only turned 18 this spring, Christin Cook has already redefined her ministry after doing an inventory of her spiritual life. She’s burying self-importance. That may be hard to do for the singer, songwriter and musician who performs with a three-man backup band at churches, youth fellowships […]
NEWS FEATURE: Cat Stevens’ Conversion Reveals A Long Spiritual Journey
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Way back before Yusuf Islam, long before Cat Stevens, there was a little boy named Stephen Demetre Georgiou. When the other children at his Roman Catholic school went forward to make their confessions or receive Holy Communion, Stephen did not participate. As the son of a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur […]
NEWS FEATURE: Bringing a `Singing Christmas Tree’ to Life
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Christmas begins early at this capital city’s Shandon Baptist Church, arriving as most Americans are still pondering how to turn Thanksgiving turkey into delectable leftovers. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, a miniature army of volunteers descends on the suburban church. First, they unload the tractor-trailer stored most of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Holocaust-era Torah Scroll Preserved in Houston
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ If history had happened according to the Nazis’ plans, a historic Torah scroll now owned by a Houston synagogue would be on display in an atrocious museum. As part of their genocide of European Jewry, the Nazis had considered opening an “Exotic Museum of an Extinct Race” after […]
Rabbis in Texas and the World They Made and Served
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ In the public imagination, longhorns, oil wells and space shuttles loom large in Texas history, as do names such as Lyndon Baines Johnson and Barbara Jordan. So do cotton and cowboys. But not rabbis. Still, the men who led Texas’ Jews prior to World War II _ early […]
NEWS FEATURE: Do the Gospels Meet the Legal Test of Evidence
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Pamela Binnings Ewen was a true child of the `60s. She read Ayn Rand, the ultra-libertarian author of”The Fountainhead.”She hung out with people who argued philosophies with names like objectivism and existentialism. She remembers the famous Time magazine cover early in that decade which asked: “Is God dead?” […]
NEWS FEATURE: Teen Christian Singer Posed for Breakthrough
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Though she only turned 18 this spring, Christin Cook has already redefined her ministry after doing an inventory of her spiritual life. She’s burying self-importance. That may be hard to do for the singer, songwriter and musician who performs with a three-man backup band at churches, youth fellowships […]
NEWS FEATURE: The American Way of Death _ Time for An Overhaul
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Rev. Chuck Meyer longs to alert modern Americans that they have choices when it comes to death and dying. “We’ve medicalized death over the last 50 years,” said Meyer, vice president of operations for St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, and an expert on pastoral care for […]
