Margaret Bernstein
Margaret Bernstein is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Margaret Bernstein
At one key Ohio church, it’s `Obama time’
By Margaret Bernstein — February 27, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The flavor and fervor of the civil rights movement hung heavy in the air on a chilly Sunday morning. Inside Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, a child played “We Shall Overcome” plaintively on her flute. From his pulpit, the Rev. Otis Moss Jr. liberally quoted from the well-known words […]
Barcelona nativity scenes feature an unusual visitor
By Margaret Bernstein — December 18, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BARCELONA, Spain _ The Virgin Mary. The three kings. A few wayward sheep. These are the figures one expects to find in a traditional Christmas nativity scene. But a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his rear-end exposed? Not so much. And yet statuettes of “El Caganer,” or […]
Barcelona nativity scenes feature an unusual visitor
By Margaret Bernstein — November 30, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service BARCELONA, Spain _ The Virgin Mary. The three kings. A few wayward sheep. These are the figures one expects to find in a traditional Christmas nativity scene. But a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his rear-end exposed? Not so much. And yet statuettes of “El Caganer,” or […]
Woman Drops `Booty Bounce’ for Christian Line Dancing
By Margaret Bernstein — March 23, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Belinda Haywood didn’t want to give up what she loved. She had made her name teaching line dances. Romantic ones like her “Enchanted Evening” routine. Urban young folks clamored for the “Booty Bounce” and the “Shake What Your Mama Gave You.” Her classes drew dozens of people to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Pentecostal Flock Treasures 106-Year-Old Bishop
By Margaret Bernstein — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ At age 106, Bertha Mable Massey has no living descendants. For many elderly people, that would be a problem. Massey, though, is being lovingly cared for in a Cleveland home where she is treated like royalty. The dressy suits she favors for everyday wear have been moved here, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Pentecostal Flock Treasures 106-Year-Old Bishop
By Margaret Bernstein — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ At age 106, Bertha Mable Massey has no living descendants. For many elderly people, that would be a problem. Massey, though, is being lovingly cared for in a Cleveland home where she is treated like royalty. The dressy suits she favors for everyday wear have been moved here, […]
Missionary recalls kidnapping ordeal in Russia
By Margaret Bernstein — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Handcuffed to a heater in a shack outside a Russian town, Andrew L. Propst and his missionary partner, Travis R. Tuttle, played word games, practiced Russian grammar and devised a dream team of professional baseball players to keep from going mad. The two Mormon missionaries, who had […]
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