Ethics
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 […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religions Changing Attitudes on suicide
By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Recently, The Rev. Charles Rubey, a priest with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, talked with a mother whose son had committed suicide. The woman poured out her grief to him. But what made her anguish even more excruciating, Rubey said, was the insensitive way in which people […]
NEWS FEATURE: Public TV Takes on `Taboo’ Issue of Death and Dying
By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Social issues, from childbirth to sexuality, are “out of the closet.” Yet, talking about death is still taboo, say experts on death and dying. But two upcoming public television shows, “On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying” and “Final Blessing,” aim to break through the taboo by starting a […]
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: With a New Granddaughter, Who Could Ask for More?
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the Senior Interreligious Adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) What do you call a newborn child whose parents, Eve and Robbie, are both rabbis? The answer is simple: Emma Mollie Weiner, our first grandchild. Because our daughter’s pregnancy went full term and a few days more, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Georgia Baptists Affirm New Southern Baptist Faith Statement (RNS) Disagreeing with a famous fellow Baptist, delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention affirmed the new faith statement of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting Tuesday (Nov. 14). Former President Jimmy Carter, who attends a church in Plains, Ga., announced […]
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: 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 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Georgia Baptists Affirm New Southern Baptist Faith Statement (RNS) Disagreeing with a famous fellow Baptist, delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention affirmed the new faith statement of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting Tuesday (Nov. 14). Former President Jimmy Carter, who attends a church in Plains, Ga., announced […]
NEWS FEATURE: RU-486’s Debut Is Likely to Alter Abortion Debate
By James Palmer — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As supporters and opponents of legal abortion prepare to square off one more time to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, the Food and Drug Administration is quietly preparing to radically alter the political and medical landscape on the volatile […]
NEWS STORY: Lieberman a Leader in Fight Against Assisted Suicide Law
By Ron Barnett — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore’s choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as his running mate raises the odds that Oregon’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide will be a target of the new administration, no matter which party wins the White House. Like Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican nominee […]
NEWS FEATURE: RU-486’s Debut Is Likely to Alter Abortion Debate
By James Palmer — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ As supporters and opponents of legal abortion prepare to square off one more time to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, the Food and Drug Administration is quietly preparing to radically alter the political and medical landscape on the volatile […]
NEWS STORY: Lieberman a Leader in Fight Against Assisted Suicide Law
By Ron Barnett — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore’s choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as his running mate raises the odds that Oregon’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide will be a target of the new administration, no matter which party wins the White House. Like Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican nominee […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic report gives managed care mixed ethical grade
By William Bole — August 10, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The weeks are running out for 8-year-old Jason Martin. He has a deadly brain tumor, and one last hope _ a new cancer-fighting drug being tested several hundred miles away. The Martins, a family of modest means, have health insurance through a managed care organization. But the regional […]
