Whitney Jones

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Protestants Congregations Struggle to Cope With Their Own Traumatic Scandals

By Whitney Jones — May 13, 2006
c. 2006 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly NEW YORK _ While the sex abuse scandal involving Roman Catholic priests has rocked the church and created years of headlines, Protestant congregations have been devastated by their own scandals _ ministers having affairs with women in their own congregations. No one knows for sure how many such cases […]

COMMENTARY: An International 911

By Whitney Jones — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Larry Jones is president of the Feed the Children, the international humanitarian aid group.) (UNDATED) Who defines compassion or what moves us to act? Who would stop our hand when we reach to dial 911? I have just returned from Ethiopia, ground zero for countries in the Horn of Africa […]

COMMENTARY: An International 911

By Whitney Jones — May 27, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Larry Jones is president of the Feed the Children, the international humanitarian aid group.) (UNDATED) Who defines compassion or what moves us to act? Who would stop our hand when we reach to dial 911? I have just returned from Ethiopia, ground zero for countries in the Horn of Africa […]

NEWS STORY: Nation’s largest Baptist university lifts ban on campus dances

By Whitney Jones — January 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS)-Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the nation’s largest Baptist-related school, will begin allowing on-campus dances this spring, a move that has upset some religious conservatives. Robert B. Sloan Jr., the school’s 46-year-old president, approved the dances Friday (Jan. 26), lifting a ban going back more than a […]
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