David Finnigan
David Finnigan is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Freud Exhibit Provokes Ethical, Moral Soul-Searching
By David Finnigan — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Tucked into a corner wall of the Skirball Cultural Center’s just-concluded exhibit on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was a writing stand with a patron comment book, an altogether fitting appendage for an exhibit on a thinker whose entire life provoked sharp reflection and strong response. And by the […]
NEWS STORY: Freud Exhibit Provokes Ethical, Moral Soul-Searching
By David Finnigan — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Tucked into a corner wall of the Skirball Cultural Center’s just-concluded exhibit on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was a writing stand with a patron comment book, an altogether fitting appendage for an exhibit on a thinker whose entire life provoked sharp reflection and strong response. And by the […]
NEWS STORY: Filmmaker Announces Second Mormon-Related Movie Project
By David Finnigan — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mormon filmmaker Richard Dutcher, whose missionary drama “God’s Army” has earned $2.5 million at the box office this year, has announced he will start shooting his second movie on themes related to the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Brigham City,” next week in rural […]
NEWS STORY: Filmmaker Announces Second Mormon-Related Movie Project
By David Finnigan — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mormon filmmaker Richard Dutcher, whose missionary drama “God’s Army” has earned $2.5 million at the box office this year, has announced he will start shooting his second movie on themes related to the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Brigham City,” next week in rural […]
NEWS FEATURE: PBS documentary looks at 50 years of Israel-Arab relations
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Public Broadcasting System’s new documentary,”The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs,”opens and closes with a camera shot of the same tree _ the tree framing five decades of history compacted into five hours of television. As the tree sways at the show’s debut, the narrator invokes,”Palestine, […]
NEWS FEATURE: At Christian colleges: Dancing? What about body piercing?
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LA MIRADA, Calif. _ The decades-old debate of whether to dance or not to dance is still roiling the waters at evangelical Christian colleges and universities. But added to the mix these days are some new cultural twists _ like body piercing. And the presence of gays. Such issues were […]
NEWS STORY: U.S. Catholics mark millennium jubilee with justice focus
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ About 3,000 Roman Catholic social activists and their supporters are gathering here for a four-day church-sponsored meeting to talk about ending the death penalty, reforming immigration laws, and aiding the poor as means to implement Pope John Paul II’s call to make the new millennium a justice-focused […]
NEWS FEATURE: Artist uses images of matzah to feed Jewish history
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Bonnie Voland’s daughter, Hayley, seems as curious as other seven-year-olds. And perceptive, too. While touring the Skirball Cultural Center, Hayley noticed the constant, subtle presence of red in the large, acrylic-on-canvas, three-panel exhibit,”History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews,”by New York artist Larry Rivers. Unlike many […]
NEWS STORY: Networks get religion during TV’s `sweeps’
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ May is a television ratings”sweeps”month and the networks yet again have found religion in an effort to boost their audiences. NBC started it off with its popular May 2-3 broadcast of the biblical disaster epic”Noah’s Ark,”while CBS airs its”Joan of Arc”miniseries May 16 and 18th. ABC will […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic activists pledge `jubilee justice’ for new millennium
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ More than 3,000 Roman Catholic peace and justice activists have ended their four-day National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice pledging to make the new millennium as justice-centered as humanly possible by combating a host of global woes.”We have a lot to celebrate; we have a lot to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Simple living has its roots in spiritual living
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ America’s simple living movement, embraced as an alternative to environmental catastrophe and rampant secular materialism, can find its ground in the religion of Jesus, Buddha and other world faiths. That, at least, was one of the low-key _ indeed, simple _ messages at the Sept. 19 Seeds […]
NEWS STORY: Muslims, Arab-Americans upset by new terrorism film
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ American Muslims and Arabs are angry about an upcoming film they say dangerously stereotypes their communities as terrorist threats at a time when real terrorism already has them on the defensive. In”The Siege,”a 20th Century Fox film starring Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington and set for release […]
NEWS FEATURE: Americans get chance to match their angel images with the masters
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Americans _ some 75 percent according to a recent poll _ believe in angels. And now, thanks to the Vatican and the Chrysler Corp., they’ll be able to match their mental images of heavenly beings with the representations of some of the world’s most famous artists. A […]
NEWS FEATURE: Ancient Galilee _ more than Jesus
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ As movie theaters nationwide await the Dec. 18th opening of the animated biblical epic,”The Prince of Egypt,”a host of archaeology lectures here on recent discoveries by archaeologists in the Middle East are reminding Americans that ancient Galilee is about more than”one first century Jew”_ Jesus. Over the […]
NEWS STORY: Promise Keepers opens year 2000 events to families
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ As the Promise Keepers begins its summer season of stadium events, the Christian men’s organization is asking for money and for men to bring their wives and childrens to state capitals for two-hour rallies planned for Jan. 1, 2000. Those plans mark the first time Promise Keepers […]
