Ethics
COMMENTARY: Proper goodbyes
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) UNDATED _ In our ongoing sampling of Saturday morning breakfast places, my seven-year-old son and I visit Mr. Waffle and quickly add another entry to the”Great”category. Were it not for a smoky haze over every booth, this […]
COMMENTARY: What we see isn’t always reality
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) UNDATED _ My 7-year-old angel gets himself dressed for a choir performance at church. As he walks forward to sing, I notice he’s wearing an old YMCA soccer shirt and jeans. His eyes roam over the sanctuary, […]
COMMENTARY: Everyday revelations, everyday blessings
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 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 _ November begins in the Roman Catholic Church calendar with memories of saints and prayers for all souls. […]
COMMENTARY: Catholic bishops `playing doctor’ with health care
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Frances Kissling is president of Catholics for a Free Choice, based in Washington, D.C., an independent organization that advocates for women’s reproductive health rights.) UNDATED _ Many people worry about doctors playing God. And so a lot of effort has gone into ensuring physicians do not compromise patients’ integrity, that […]
COMMENTARY: Dr. Death on prime time: The slippery slope toward murder
By R Albert Mohler — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (R. Albert Mohler Jr., a noted author and speaker, is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.) UNDATED _ The slippery slope is getting much harder to deny. Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s prime-time publicity stunt demonstrates the speed with which the culture of death is overtaking our times. Already […]
COMMENTARY: Humanity, not gender, is key in capital punishment case
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 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 _ If women have equal rights in our society, do they not have […]
COMMENTARY: Church off on wrong foot for millennium celebration
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 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 _ Reinhold Stecher, the retiring Roman Catholic bishop of Innsbruck, Austria, recently commented […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops: make abortion priority in voting
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Leaders of the nation’s largest church are urging their 60-million-member flock to make”defending life”their No. 1 concern at the ballot box. And Roman Catholic politicians are being warned they endanger their eternal salvation by supporting laws permitting abortion. In a proposed policy statement, a powerful committee of the […]
NEWS PROFILE: Finley Schaef: memories of the abortion underground before Roe vs. Wade
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. Finley Schaef still remembers the woman and her teen-age daughter who visited his Methodist church office in Queens, N.Y., more than 30 years ago faced with a desperate dilemma. The daughter, the victim of a rape at the hands of her father, had become pregnant. They […]
COMMENTARY: Thomas Jefferson was a sinner and so am I
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _”Beware, your sins will find you out,”was a warning repeated by my youth minister to his flock of rowdy teenagers in the hope of scaring us into good behavior. As a firm believer in an omnipotent God, he only hinted at how God might catch us in our iniquities. […]
COMMENTARY: Should we be thankful for how little we suffer?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ If there is one principle that Americans agree about, one theme that pervades our advertising and public policy and even our education system, it is this: No one should have to suffer. Americans hate the notion of suffering so much that […]
COMMENTARY: The promise next time
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service.) UNDATED _ In the end, it was a greasy doughnut that brought me down. After weeks of resisting gourmet offerings and home-cooked temptations, it was a Dunkin’ Donuts presentation in a cardboard box that undid me. There it sat, in […]
COMMENTARY: The promise next time
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service.) UNDATED _ In the end, it was a greasy doughnut that brought me down. After weeks of resisting gourmet offerings and home-cooked temptations, it was a Dunkin’ Donuts presentation in a cardboard box that undid me. There it sat, in […]
Missionary recalls kidnapping ordeal in Russia
By Margaret Bernstein — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ Handcuffed to a heater in a shack outside a Russian town, Andrew L. Propst and his missionary partner, Travis R. Tuttle, played word games, practiced Russian grammar and devised a dream team of professional baseball players to keep from going mad. The two Mormon missionaries, who had […]
NEWS FEATURE: Abortion foes expect support from new House speaker
By Bruce Alpert — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Both sides on the contentious abortion issue describe Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., as staunchly anti-abortion, but disagree on how much he can advance that agenda as the new speaker of the House of Representatives. Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, said Livingston, […]
