Michelle Roberts
Michelle Roberts is an author at Religion News Service.
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Abuse survivors struggle with loss of faith, confidence
By Michelle Roberts — October 24, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service ST. HELENS, Ore. _ It’s been 23 years since Diane Bach left the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in Arkansas, but she still struggles to make decisions for herself. As a waitress hands Bach a menu during a recent lunch meeting, she swallows hard. Her hands begin to tremble; she […]
Raid at Ark. compound summons ghosts of previous abuse
By Michelle Roberts — September 23, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If only she prayed hard enough, she could make Susan Alamo rise from the dead. At age 12, having not set foot outside a religious compound in Arkansas since she was 4, Elishah Franckiewicz believed it was possible. Day after day, she lay down beside the corpse, dressed in […]
Spiritual Cures for the Modern World
By Michelle Roberts — July 18, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Laura O’Donnell meets you at the door of her brown split-level home in Southwest Portland, Ore. Trim in yoga pants and bare feet, she leads you up a short flight of stairs to her home office. The 34-year-old physical therapist invites you to sit down before settling herself in […]
NEWS STORY: Church council debates new shape of ecumenism for 21st century
By Michelle Roberts — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HARARE, Zimbabwe _ After opening ceremonies dramatically demonstrating the diversity of world Christianity, the World Council of Churches’ Eighth Assembly this week began the serious debate of what form the ecumenical movement will take in the next century _ and how the WCC will have to change to accommodate that […]
NEWS STORY: World Council effort to expand church unity seen as unfocused
By Michelle Roberts — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HARARE, Zimbabwe _ As the World Council of Churches enters its final weekend poised to take votes on proposals to create a new forum for church unity discussions, the plans are being questioned by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church _ the group the proposal most directly targets. Bishop Mario […]
NEWS STORY: World Council ends assembly in a `time between times’
By Michelle Roberts — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HARARE, Zimbabwe _ The World Council of Churches, finding itself in a biblical”time between times,”Monday (Dec. 14) ended its Eighth Assembly agreeing to create a”forum”aimed at widening participation in the drive for church unity and at the same time taking steps to heal the breach between its Protestant and Orthodox […]
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