Charles Honey

Charles Honey is an author at Religion News Service.

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NEWS FEATURE: Think Tank Seeks to Blend Conservative Theology, Free Enterprise

By Charles Honey — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ An African bishop sees hope for his country’s future in the ideas bubbling out of a Grand Rapids think tank. Bishop Bernard Njoroge Kariuki, who oversees half a million Episcopal Church members in Kenya, recently spent a weekend in Florida with 26 seminarians and clergy from […]

NEWS FEATURE: Billionaire Shares Wisdom Gleaned From Faith and Business

By Charles Honey — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Rich DeVos knows the odds are stacked against his getting into heaven. He is well aware of Jesus’ teaching that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom. He learned this […]

NEWS FEATURE: Billionaire Shares Wisdom Gleaned From Faith and Business

By Charles Honey — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Rich DeVos knows the odds are stacked against his getting into heaven. He is well aware of Jesus’ teaching that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom. He learned this […]

NEWS FEATURE: Ministry of mentors aids welfare-to-work program

By Charles Honey — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service HOLLAND, Mich. _ Their friendship started with a ride to the doctor. Jamila Wilkins didn’t have a car, and she was pregnant. She needed to get to the obstetrician’s office. Deborah DuMez, a volunteer at Holland’s Good Samaritan Ministries, picked up Wilkins in her van. They hit it off, and […]

NEWS STORY: Christian Reformed Church opens a quiet, slimmed-down meeting

By Charles Honey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Here’s the first clue to the Christian Reformed Church Synod of 1998: the size of the book. At 250 pages, the agenda of Synod `98, which opened Saturday (June 13), is about the size of a paperback mystery novel _ half the size of last year’s. […]

NEWS STORY: Church trial expected for Rhem on sexual misconduct charges

By Charles Honey — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service SPRING LAKE, Mich. _ The Muskegon Classis of the Reformed Church in America has taken a new tack in the allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding the Rev. Richard Rhem, the controversial pastor whose views on salvation and homosexuality have won him censure: near total silence. After a June 24 meeting […]

NEWS FEATURE: Debate on the Bible and gays comes to middle America

By Charles Honey — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Serive GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ As the Rev. Robin Scroggs sees it, the increasing controversy in churches over homosexuality has produced at least one positive benefit: It’s got people reading the Bible.”This is really an amazing situation,”said Scroggs, a Biblical studies professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York.”In our culture […]
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