Steve Rabey
Steve Rabey is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Reel Jews: 50 major films on Jewish life and culture
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 religion News Service UNDATED _ The Jewish people were”the inventors of Western civilization,”giving the world their scriptures and the concept of monotheism, writes Thomas Cahill in his latest historical bestseller,”The Gifts of the Jews.” But it is perhaps through their contributions to the world of film that Jews have exercised their greatest cultural […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: A plethora of Prince-ly products
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ It would take a king’s ransom to buy all the official”Prince of Egypt”products _ and a Pharaoh’s palace to store them all. Here’s what’s available. MUSIC Unlike many movie projects, most of the music on all three”Prince of Egypt”albums is new, original work. _”Soundtrack”features the Mariah Carey-Whitney Houston […]
NEWS FEATURE: Gospel music awards raise visibility with secular artists
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ It’s not just peacocks that preen. On Thursday (April 23), the Dove Awards _ Christian music’s answer to the Grammys _ will celebrate the gospel industry’s biggest year with a star-studded televised gala. In an effort to gain increased media exposure, the Gospel Music Association has asked”New Age”instrumentalist […]
NEWS FEATURE: Minister Max Lucado reaches millions with his heartfelt books
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Max Lucado was a missionary in Brazil when he began writing in 1985, and that’s where he might be today if he hadn’t become a bestselling author. Since his literary debut 20 books ago, however, the 43-year-old Lucado has become a publishing phenomenon, selling more than 11 million […]
NEWS FEATURE: Hailing a hero: Animated”Prince of Egypt”a faithful telling of Exodus story
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Moses is the Hebrew Bible’s supreme superhero. And the Book of Exodus, which tells how God called Moses to deliver his people from bondage in Egypt and lead them to the Promised Land, is one of the world’s most moving and central stories for the world’s three major […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Jewish music moving from synagogue to mainstream
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Musician Bruce Burger was raised in a Conservative Jewish home in upstate New York, but the indoctrination didn’t stick.”I got thrown out of Hebrew school more often than I was there,”he says.”I was fairly agnostic.” Then in 1992, Burger attended a Sabbath dinner in Los Angeles hosted by […]
NEWS STORY: Christian magazine industry maturing
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CHICAGO _”In the beginning was the Word,”wrote the Apostle John in his Gospel. The Christian magazine industry, which seeks to promote biblical values through a flurry of printed words and images, came much, much later but still tries to link John’s Word with the millions of words it sets in […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: The quotable Kathleen Norris
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In”Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith”(Riverhead), writer Kathleen Norris gives a fresh spin to some ancient Christian terms. Prayer Prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine. Doubt Perhaps my most important breakthrough with regard to […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: The quotable Kathleen Norris
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In”Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith”(Riverhead), writer Kathleen Norris gives a fresh spin to some ancient Christian terms. Prayer Prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine. Doubt Perhaps my most important breakthrough with regard to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Faith-based calendars help believers balance time and eternity
By Steve Rabey — December 31, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Time is a mirror of eternity for followers of most of the world’s major faiths. The moments of each day and the days of each year are believed to be intangibly _ but inseparably _ tied to deeper spiritual realities that transcend both space and time. As folks […]
NEWS FEATURE _ Q&A: Academic, activist Sider still challenging `rich Christians’
By Steve Rabey — September 24, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Christian academic and activist Ron Sider’s first book, published two decades years ago, has sold nearly 350,000 copies, a rare accomplishment for a title that’s not an inspirational novel or a”how-to”guide on losing pounds or finding wealth. In fact,”Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger”(Word, $15.99), which was […]
Jars of Clay: `Humanity is a frail thing’
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1997
(RNS)—A band formed by Christian college friends found themselves opening for Sting.
NEWS FEATURE: Old genre _ spiritual biographies _ finding new life
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Blame it on Augustine. Some 1,600 years ago the Christian saint was writing his”Confessions,”which detailed his loss of faith, his search for solace in sensuality and philosophy, and his return to God _ a book that invented the spiritual autobiography and set the contours of the genre. More […]
NEWS FEATURE: `Late Great Planet Earth’ author undaunted by year 2000
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Hal Lindsey, the prophetic author who wrote the 1970s best seller,”The Late Great Planet Earth,”that predicted the coming of the end of time as we know it, is undaunted by the year 2000.”I don’t think there’s anything special about the changing of the millennium,”he says. Lindsey’s message _ […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: “Seven Years in Tibet” feeds a growing interest in Buddhism
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ With the opening in theaters nationwide of”Seven Years in Tibet,”Buddhism has become big business at the box office. Millions of moviegoers have taken a break from murder, mayhem, sex and big explosions to see a moving film about one man’s redemption. In addition to oodles of pre-release publicity,”Seven […]
