Ethics
NEWS FEATURE: Lawlessness threatens Russian mission work
By Christa Brown — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service MOSCOW – When it comes to religious freedom in Russia, the world’s attention is usually focused on government restrictions on minority faiths. But in volatile and lawless southern Russia, threats to religious freedom take the much more brutal form of murder and kidnapping. In the Russian Caucasus, for example, Baptist […]
NEWS STORY: Israel detains 21 Christians saying they pose threat to public safety
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Israeli authorities have detained some 21 people belonging to two millennial Christian sects and issued them deportation orders, saying they pose a danger to public safety. But members of the two predominantly American groups, which have been based for years in the Jerusalem area of the Mount of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Churches providing support for caregivers
By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BOWIE, Md. _ On a recent Friday evening, E. Nancy O’Liddy, a member of St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Bowie, Md., rushed from her job near Capitol Hill back out to this suburb to give her 71-year-old mother a bath.”Mom’s had eight strokes. Caring for Mom has taken over the […]
COMMENTARY: The prodigal and the village: Are we not our children’s keepers?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ There was much rejoicing at our friends’ home Saturday (June 12). Eighteen-year-old Michael _ all 6 foot 5 inches […]
COMMENTARY: How peace happens
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) UNDATED _”Peacemaking”was a touchy concept when I was coming of age in the 1960s. If one talked of”peace,”people immediately took sides on Vietnam. Some considered peacemaking to be soft and unpatriotic. But the Sermon on the Mount […]
COMMENTARY: If the church ordained women would abortions drop?
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph,”published by St. Martin’s Press.) UNDATED _ Suppose the Roman Catholic Church changed its mind and announced it was going to approve the ordination […]
COMMENTARY: Catholic Church’s contraception ban is Achilles’ heel
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Frances Kissling is president of Catholics for a Free Choice.) UNDATED _ Just after the Supreme Court recognized a woman’s right to choose abortion 26 years ago, the Pregnancy Aid Center opened in College Park, Md., a Washington suburb, to help women who didn’t want abortions but for whom having […]
COMMENTARY: Momma made me do it
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ I was so young _ barely 4 _ when the abuse began. It came at the hands of my mother, the woman I expected to protect me. Instead, she looked at my long, flowing hair and something snapped. She announced her […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Evangelical Lutheran Church in America speaks out on suicide (RNS) The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has adopted a message encouraging its members to contribute to efforts to prevent suicide. The lengthy report, adopted Nov. 14, states that with more than 30,000 people committing suicide in […]
COMMENTARY: Victory in Kosovo
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The NATO victory in Kosovo is one of the decisive events of […]
NEWS FEATURE: U.S. ministry aids Russian orphans make transition to adulthood
By Janet Fillmore — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ANDREYEVSKOYE, Russia _ Dima Himenkov is smiling. A broad grin covers the 16-year-old’s freckled face as he slides his queen deep into his foster father’s territory on the chess board. Nikolai Mironovich groans and throws up his hands. “Dima always wins,” he said. Across the room, over the televised din […]
NEWS FEATURE Nursing school professor links spirituality and health
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ Ann Ameling, a professor at Yale Nursing School, can recite a litany of professional reasons for starting a spirituality and health program in conjunction with Yale Divinity School. But the true reason for her dedication to the project lies outside the professional realm and originates in […]
COMMENTARY: Human pain has no half life
By Frances Kennedy — August 20, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph, published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ In an old photograph, the first president of this century, Theodore Roosevelt, sits with his favorite […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Beliefs, caring attitude, good sermons draw church members (RNS) American churchgoers cite three significant factors in their choice of a church _ its beliefs and doctrine, how much people in the congregation care about each other, and the quality of sermons, according to a recent poll by the Barna Research […]
NEWS STORY: Ambivalent America marks 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Partisans on both sides of the explosive abortion issue took their case to an increasingly ambivalent American public Thursday (Jan. 22) as the nation marked the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing most abortions. In perhaps the nation’s most visible expression of the […]
