Janet Fillmore
Janet Fillmore is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Janet Fillmore
Mother finds life on the other side of loss
By Janet Fillmore — October 4, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Christine Yowell put her foot on the balcony ledge. Below, the Mediterranean shimmered in the light of a full moon. “I could jump off,” she thought. “Five minutes, 10 minutes tops, and I would be in heaven with her.’ “ Only minutes had passed since the phone call telling […]
Holiness camps still draw a crowd
By Janet Fillmore — August 29, 2008
WADSWORTH, Ohio _ The rains came. Not for 40 days and 40 nights, but for 40 steady minutes, which turned the winding, dirt road leading to the Sharon Center Holiness Camp into mud and then caused it to flood. Not good for the opening weekend of camp meeting. For more than 100 years, the faithful […]
Single-faith chapels a dying breed at U.S. airports
By Janet Fillmore — June 4, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Most of the 30 or so chapels at U.S. airports are tucked in a corner or on a second floor that isn’t well-traveled. And most are small and plain. But the Regina Caeli Chapel at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is different, and what makes it unique might also […]
Small Muslim sect preaches a unique message
By Janet Fillmore — February 28, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Toby Jones is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a rock musician who plays guitar in bars at night and the author of the recently published “The Gospel According to Rock.” Jones, 46, is associate pastor of the 450-member First Presbyterian Church of Harbor Springs, Mich., where […]
Have a Buddhist question? `Ask a Monk’ has the answer
By Janet Fillmore — December 12, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ When the Ven. Shih Ying-Fa parks his 5-foot-10 frame before the computer in his home office, he never knows who will be seeking his help. It could be a high school student in Baton Rouge, La., who asks the difference between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism for a class. […]
Gen-Xer Picks a Secluded Path and Finds Contentment
By Janet Fillmore — January 3, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Sister Christina usually has her eyes on heaven. This day, however, she gazes downward, at the sidewalk. Arms pumping, veil flying, the 33-year-old cloistered nun skates into a turn on a path behind monastery walls, hoping that her wheels don’t drop into the inch-wide valley between the concrete […]
NEWS FEATURE: U.S. ministry aids Russian orphans make transition to adulthood
By Janet Fillmore — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ANDREYEVSKOYE, Russia _ Dima Himenkov is smiling. A broad grin covers the 16-year-old’s freckled face as he slides his queen deep into his foster father’s territory on the chess board. Nikolai Mironovich groans and throws up his hands. “Dima always wins,” he said. Across the room, over the televised din […]
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