Christ Herlinger
Christ Herlinger is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Jazz Ministry Celebrates 30th Anniversary With All-Night Jam Session
By Christ Herlinger — October 18, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ It is a “Homecoming on Earth” _ a way for jazz musicians and fans alike to congregate and enjoy what one singer calls the closest thing to prayer known in music. “This is our little spiritual home for the jazz community,” said singer Nancie Banks during the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Exhibit Explores `Rich and Vital’ Aspects of Faith
By Christ Herlinger — October 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Walking through the gallery of the American Bible Society (ABS), it is easy to feel as if you are in any other Manhattan contemporary art exhibit. Some of the forms are abstract, and some utilize mixed media. Many of the pieces are striking and fresh. But there […]
NEWS FEATURE: Exhibit Explores `Rich and Vital’ Aspects of Faith
By Christ Herlinger — October 13, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Walking through the gallery of the American Bible Society (ABS), it is easy to feel as if you are in any other Manhattan contemporary art exhibit. Some of the forms are abstract, and some utilize mixed media. Many of the pieces are striking and fresh. But there […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church Groups Hoping for Democratic `Revolution’ in Mexican Election
By Christ Herlinger — July 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CUERNAVACA, Mexico _ Despite polls showing otherwise, Salvador Guzman and others affiliated with the Base Christian Community (BCC) movement here remain hopeful that Cuauhtemoc Cardenas can pull off Sunday (July 2) what has eluded him twice before: a victory in the Mexican presidential elections. To Guzman and others, the sober […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church Groups Hoping for Democratic `Revolution’ in Mexican Election
By Christ Herlinger — July 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CUERNAVACA, Mexico _ Despite polls showing otherwise, Salvador Guzman and others affiliated with the Base Christian Community (BCC) movement here remain hopeful that Cuauhtemoc Cardenas can pull off Sunday (July 2) what has eluded him twice before: a victory in the Mexican presidential elections. To Guzman and others, the sober […]
NEWS FEATURE: North Americans to Join Romero Remembrance
By Christ Herlinger — March 18, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When religious leaders and church activists gather next week in El Salvador to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, they will be honoring a man many consider among the most prominent and courageous religious martyrs of the 20th century. “The Romero story is like […]
NEWS FEATURE: North Americans to Join Romero Remembrance
By Christ Herlinger — March 18, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When religious leaders and church activists gather next week in El Salvador to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, they will be honoring a man many consider among the most prominent and courageous religious martyrs of the 20th century. “The Romero story is like […]
NEWS STORY: Thousands March to Remember Slain Champion of Poor Romero
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador _ Capping a week of somber remembrances and hopeful recommitments for social change, thousands marched by candlelight through the streets of San Salvador on Friday (March 24) to honor Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero on the 20th anniversary of his assassination. Joined by hundreds of visitors from […]
NEWS STORY: Historic Summit Shows Religions at Their Best and Worst
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Rich in color and pageantry, long on good intentions but often falling short of a clear purpose and outcome, the Millennium World Peace Summit provided a revealing glimpse of religious groups _ and indeed, the conference itself _ sometimes at their best, and sometimes at their worst. […]
NEWS STORY: Religious Leaders From a `Global Village’ Gather at Historic U.N. Summit
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Some 1,000 religious and spiritual leaders from throughout the world have begun what organizers are calling a groundbreaking peace summit that will commit them and their followers to tackle the issues of peacemaking, a global environmental crisis and worsening poverty. The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious […]
NEWS STORY: HUD to Increase Funding for Faith-Based Housing Efforts
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The Department of Housing and Urban Development has given a vote of confidence to the faith-based organizations that administer federal assistance for housing and community development work. At a recent conference at New York’s Riverside Church, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo said the amount of HUD assistance administered […]
NEWS FEATURE: The `God-Box’ Turns 40
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ When the Rev. James Forbes was a student at Union Theological Seminary in the late 1950s, the din of construction work across the street would occasionally drown out the voice of an instructor. Far from minding the noise, however, Forbes and others of the seminary community in […]
NEWS STORY: New York’s Union Seminary Installs New President
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ In a colorful ceremony, including a drum-accompanied procession through the streets of Manhattan, the Rev. Joseph C. Hough Jr. has been formally installed as the 15th president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, perhaps the most venerable liberal Protestant seminary in the United States. In […]
NEWS STORY: Unity Gives Way to Dissension at U.N. Religious Summit
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ A kind of spiritual bonhomie has been on public display during much of the Millennium World Peace Summit, with religious leaders, attired in their vestments and finery, issuing carefully crafted declarations and prayers for peace. But some of the public politeness evaporated when, after two days, the […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.N. Meeting Laid Bare Problems of Globalization
By Christ Herlinger — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Globalization had an easier time of it during events tied to last week’s Millennium Summit at the United Nations. But even without the large-scale protests that surrounded recent international gatherings in Seattle and Washington, D.C., some of globalization’s contradictions were still apparent. Many of those contradictions were […]
