Ethics
NEWS FEATURE: French Religious Leaders Dismayed Over Family Planning Proposals
By Elizabeth Bryant — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PARIS _ Forty years ago, Elisabeth Gazengel had an abortion. Shunned and illegal in 1960s France, the procedure was also performed without anesthesia. Nonetheless, the then-20-year-old university student quietly put together donations from friends, found a willing hospital, and gritted her teeth. “I had the moral judgment of all the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Vampires: No Neck Biting But Feeding on Others’ Energy
By Angela Aleiss — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Nicolas Strathloch begins his day early, around 6 or 7 a.m. He rises and showers, dresses in jeans, T-shirt and hiking boots, and drives to a print shop in northern Los Angeles, where he works as a foreman. At lunch time, he often ventures to a nearby […]
NEWS FEATURE: Vampires: No Neck Biting But Feeding on Others’ Energy
By Angela Aleiss — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Nicolas Strathloch begins his day early, around 6 or 7 a.m. He rises and showers, dresses in jeans, T-shirt and hiking boots, and drives to a print shop in northern Los Angeles, where he works as a foreman. At lunch time, he often ventures to a nearby […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish New Year Ushers in `Jubilee’ Dilemma for Israeli Farmers
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service MOSHAV BEIT ZAYIT, Israel _ Young lettuce shoots are pushing up from pots in Eldad Avidar’s greenhouse, corn silks are turning dark on the stalk, and the fruit trees are heavy with big red pomegranates whose ripening signals the Jewish holiday season marked by Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succot. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Address Patterns, Problems in Evangelical Fund Raising
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Scholars researching evangelical spending habits have found most North American evangelicals do not tithe _ a core stewardship principle for the movement _ and conservative Christian ministries need to be wary of the ethical pitfalls in fund raising practices. Overall, U.S. evangelical Christians on average miss the […]
NEWS FEATURE: New `Kingsley’s Meadow’ Video: Fun and Thoughtful
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Perhaps he isn’t quite as magical as Aslan, the famous Christ figure of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” series, but the lion named Kingsley who is the principal character in a popular children’s video series teaches Christian faith in a fun and thoughtful way. Kingsley, […]
NEWS FEATURE: New `Kingsley’s Meadow’ Video: Fun and Thoughtful
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Perhaps he isn’t quite as magical as Aslan, the famous Christ figure of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” series, but the lion named Kingsley who is the principal character in a popular children’s video series teaches Christian faith in a fun and thoughtful way. Kingsley, […]
COMMENTARY: A Boat Full of Fish and Nothing to Show for It
By Byron Kaye — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Les Kaye spent over 30 years in the high-tech, corporate world. He is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of “Zen at Work” (Random House, 1997). His e-mail address is medatwork(at)aol.com.) (UNDATED) He emerged from sleep unrested, heavy with the usual aggressiveness. […]
COMMENTARY: Rising Tides, Leaky Boats
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Suzanne Holland teaches religious and social ethics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.) (UNDATED) If it’s true, as Chicago-school economics teaches, that a rising tide floats all boats, can someone please tell me why homelessness is on the increase in the most prosperous nation on Earth? How […]
COMMENTARY: The Moments for Which We Give Thanks
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago. His new book, “The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality,” will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the spring.) (UNDATED) The recent disruption in national life, with its […]
COMMENTARY: Surviving By Faith
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of five books and the mother of two children.) (UNDATED) The sounds of the choir joined forces with the sight of the morning sun just as the voices rose in unison, “I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free.” And then, more […]
NEWS FEATURE: Scholars Address Patterns, Problems in Evangelical Fund Raising
By Ted Parks — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Scholars researching evangelical spending habits have found most North American evangelicals do not tithe _ a core stewardship principle for the movement _ and conservative Christian ministries need to be wary of the ethical pitfalls in fund raising practices. Overall, U.S. evangelical Christians on average miss the […]
NEWS FEATURE: New `Kingsley’s Meadow’ Video: Fun and Thoughtful
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Perhaps he isn’t quite as magical as Aslan, the famous Christ figure of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” series, but the lion named Kingsley who is the principal character in a popular children’s video series teaches Christian faith in a fun and thoughtful way. Kingsley, […]
NEWS FEATURE: New `Kingsley’s Meadow’ Video: Fun and Thoughtful
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Perhaps he isn’t quite as magical as Aslan, the famous Christ figure of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” series, but the lion named Kingsley who is the principal character in a popular children’s video series teaches Christian faith in a fun and thoughtful way. Kingsley, […]
NEWS STORY: Thousands Rally Against Legal Abortion
By Shelvia Dancy — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Marking the 27th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized most abortions, thousands of anti-abortion protesters poured into the nation’s capital Monday (Jan. 24) to mark the landmark decision with a call for its reversal.”Roe v. Wade was an unforgivable decision made a long time ago,”said John […]