Lucky Severson
Lucky Severson is an author at Religion News Service.
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Buddhism gets political, sometimes violent, over Tibet
By Lucky Severson — August 16, 2008
c. 2008 Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) All eyes are on China as it plays host to the 2008 Olympic games, and for the moment, earlier unrest over China’s treatment of Tibet has largely moved off center stage _ much to Beijing’s relief. Yet the decades-long tussle over Tibet continues to color the games, and […]
From one pastor to another, a helping hand
By Lucky Severson — July 15, 2008
c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly TYLER, Texas _ Last summer, the Rev. John Robbins was working on his Sunday sermon and turned on the television for a quick break. He was flipping channels until he was stopped dead in his tracks by the story of Pastor David Brown. Brown is a modern-day circuit preacher […]
Surrendering to God _ and the cops _ at church
By Lucky Severson — October 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly MEMPHIS, Tenn. _ Nineteen-year-old Edacious recently came to New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, but not to worship. Instead, she came to surrender. There was a warrant for her arrest on marijuana charges and she had come to church to turn herself in. Hundreds of others with outstanding warrants also […]
Post-Virginia Tech, mental health commitments remain a difficult issue
By Lucky Severson — July 20, 2007
c. 2007 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) The April shooting at Virginia Tech University was the deadliest in modern American history _ 33 people, including the shooter, were killed. And there are still more questions than answers about what went so wrong. How was it, for example, that Seung-Hui Cho slipped through the mental health […]
`Health Sharing’ Groups Offer Insurance Alternative
By Lucky Severson — May 27, 2006
c. 2006 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly REMINGTON, Va. _ With health care costs spiraling and some 46 million Americans without medical insurance, a number of evangelical Christian organizations have been created to promote the voluntary sharing of medical costs. “According to the Bible,” said Dennis Reitz of Remington, “we’re to be bearing one another’s burdens. […]
Firms Hope to Profit by Cleaning Up Films
By Lucky Severson — August 30, 2005
c. 2005 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly BOULDER, Colo. _ Responding to the public outcry over sex and violence in contemporary movies, a number of companies have found a new niche _ cleaning up the content of offensive films. Some firms are marketing filtering devices and others, more controversially, are editing scenes and then reselling the […]
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