Julie Wolfe

Julie Wolfe is an author at Religion News Service.

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NEWS STORY: Religious experts, groups express dismay at cloning

By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Unlike many religious leaders, the Rev. Ted Peters doesn’t believe cloning is”a threat to human identity”or that it”violates God’s sacred plan for baby-making.” Yet Peters, a Lutheran minister and a research associate with the Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, joins church groups and other […]

NEWS PROFILE: Liturgical revolutionary still bringing art to church

By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ On Christmas Day, while most ministers were telling their flocks once again the Nativity story, United Church of Christ minister Al Carmines was at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel officiating at the wedding of actress Rue McClanahan and actor Morrow Wilson. While some pastors might be a tad intimidated […]

NEWS FEATURE: Ethicist: Jews should be `tad nervous’ over genetic testing

By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA _ Specters of genetic and biological blame _ from the 14th-century bubonic plague to the 20th-century Holocaust _ should make Jews”a tad nervous”about the increasing popularity of genetic testing, says Laurie Zolath-Dorfman, an associated professor of social ethics and Jewish studies at San Francisco State University.”In the 14th century, […]
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