David Briggs
David Briggs is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Methodists to Confront Two Centuries of Racial Separation
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Richard Allen loved Methodism. He just did not think Christians should be pushed around during prayer or relegated to the balcony of the church because of the color of their skin. When he and other black members left St. George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in protest at […]
NEWS FEATURE: Mega-Revivals Touching Lives of Churchgoers
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WILLOWICK, Ohio _ The bodies are falling so fast church workers can barely keep up with them. The Rev. Jim White is feeling it now. As the choir cries out, “Lord have mercy,” White nimbly moves across the sanctuary, touching the foreheads of worshippers crowding around him. Volunteers, stepping over […]
NEWS FEATURE: Book Celebrates Jewish Practices in Modern World
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There was the orthodontist who wore ritual Jewish undergarments at the office. And the magazine writer who created his own Shabbat on Sunday night because his job required him to work Friday nights. And then there was the man who said a prayer each evening before going to bed. […]
NEWS FEATURE: For Cuban Children, Life Can Be Good, Even Without Happy Meals
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ Home plate is a pothole in the middle of the street. First base is a chip on the curb. Second base is an asphalt mark in the street, and third base is a concrete patch visible amid dirt covering a driveway. Give 6-year-old Jose Carlos Prieto Sosa a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Museum of World Religions to Open in Taipei in Spring
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Newhouse News Service (UNDATED) The Venerable Dharma Master Hsin-Tao got the idea for the Museum of World Religions in a graveyard. Spend enough time among symbols of death and you come to realize the basic unity of the world. “It shows you very clearly where all human life will end, whether you are […]
NEWS FEATURE: Methodists to Confront Two Centuries of Racial Separation
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Richard Allen loved Methodism. He just did not think Christians should be pushed around during prayer or relegated to the balcony of the church because of the color of their skin. When he and other black members left St. George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in protest at […]
NEWS FEATURE: Mega-Revivals Touching Lives of Churchgoers
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WILLOWICK, Ohio _ The bodies are falling so fast church workers can barely keep up with them. The Rev. Jim White is feeling it now. As the choir cries out, “Lord have mercy,” White nimbly moves across the sanctuary, touching the foreheads of worshippers crowding around him. Volunteers, stepping over […]
NEWS FEATURE: Museum of World Religions to Open in Taipei in Spring
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Newhouse News Service (UNDATED) The Venerable Dharma Master Hsin-Tao got the idea for the Museum of World Religions in a graveyard. Spend enough time among symbols of death and you come to realize the basic unity of the world. “It shows you very clearly where all human life will end, whether you are […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author takes compassionate look at Bible’s `bad girls’
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Bad girls, talking about the sad girls, sad girls, talking about bad girls, yeah … of the Bible. With no apologies to Donna Summer (and a bow to her own history with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll), Christian comedian Liz Curtis Higgs examines the women biblical tradition has […]
NEWS STORY: Iron John, meet the Nice Girls
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ A Christian women’s movement _ born out of the success of the Promise Keepers men’s movement but remade in the image of evangelical women _ continues to grow in its fourth season. In an “Outrageous Joy” conference at Gund Arena in Cleveland this past weekend (June 18-19), one […]
NEWS STORY: Young Catholics respect pope, but say their consciences rule
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Teen-agers call him “the big guy,” the one who represents “like, the power of God,” the modern person who allows them to “live in the footsteps of Christ.” When Pope John Paul II visits St. Louis next week, American youths will greet him with respect and admiration far […]
NEWS FEATURE: Goodbye Marlboro Man, Hello God
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As the images of cartoon camels and rugged cowboys take their forced ride into the cigarette advertising sunset, some of them are being replaced on billboards by a little divine conversation. Some 30 outdoor advertising displays have been put up in the last two weeks around Greater Cleveland […]
NEWS FEATURE: Faith sustains poor black women in study
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ A lifetime of poverty has stirred _ not shaken _ the faith of poor black women who maintain high self-esteem and a striking optimism about the future, a new study finds. The four-year study of the effects of income on aging began with researchers hypothesizing that poverty would […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian “Veggie Tales’’ videos growing in popularity
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Disney started with a mouse. So why not build the next family entertainment empire around a cucumber and a tomato? Tens of thousands of families across the country are expected to visit religious bookstores to buy”Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed,”the much-anticipated latest title in the Veggie Tales video […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jehovah’s Witnesses cautious in predicting world’s end as millennium nears
By David Briggs — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Forty-five-year-old Delecia Wilcox believes Christ will rule over a paradise on Earth free of wickedness, crime and death in her lifetime. So does 75-year-old Louise Bell. Angelo Natali, 72, had thought God would have already acted, striking down the wicked and establishing his kingdom on Earth. He also […]
