Politics
NEWS FEATURE: Poetic pilgrim: the spiritual journey of Kathleen Norris
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Since the 1960s, pilgrims seeking an authentic spiritual path have often looked beyond the Christian faith of their fathers to the esoterica of the New Age, the mysticism of Eastern religions, or the allure of new-fangled cults. Kathleen Norris abandoned the Protestant pieties of her childhood for the […]
COMMENTARY: The heart of the Edith Stein matter
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 _ Can a person be Jewish and Christian at the same time; can […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religion inflames war in Sudan
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service AWEIL, Sudan _ Geng Kuack Athiang lost a childhood of playing in the trees with friends when soldiers on horseback stormed into his village and captured him. He says he was sent into slavery and given an Islamic name. Achol Deng Ngong lost her innocence after a similar attack on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Mixing dollars with the divine in gospel music industy
By Julia Lieblich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ Seventeen-year-old Candi Pearson stood in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel late last month and stared unabashedly at the performers. “He’s awesome,” she said as a hunky guy with spiked hair got off the elevator. She didn’t remember the name of a bleached-blond singer in 4-inch platforms, […]
NEWS STORY: Churches gear up for day of prayer for persecuted Christians
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Steven Haas says some 300 million Christians around the globe face the possibility of serious discrimination”simply for trying to be what they are”in nations where governments or religious majorities are hostile toward them. Haas admits his numbers are mere estimates drawn from State Department and other reports on […]
COMMENTARY: What is a lie?
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 _ Let us consider four cases: 1. You are a Dutch teenager during […]
NEWS FEATURE: Critics question why United States is getting involved
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BEIJING _ Ying Mulan, who also goes by the name Sister Angela Theresa, wears a cream blouse and habit. Sitting in a pew in South Cathedral, one of six government-sanctioned Catholic churches in Beijing, she speaks firmly when asked what she thinks about American worries of persecution in China. “America […]
NEWS FEATURE: Rastafarianism more than reggae, dreadlocks: It’s a religion
By Julia Lieblich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ “Beware of the imposta’ Rasta.” So warned Dave Simon, 25, who said it takes more than dreadlocks and ganja to make a Rastafarian. “You can grow your hair and not live the life of a Rastaman,” said Simon, sitting in the backyard of the Olive Branch, the […]
NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church’s Griswold: dump `idols of denominational singularity’
By David Briggs — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The head of the Episcopal Church _ often considered the”bridge”between the Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths _ is challenging churches to jettison outmoded attitudes and strip away non-essentials for the sake of church unity. Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, in his first major address on ecumenical issues, said […]
NEWS STORY: Pope says church in Cuba does not seek political power but needs freedom
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service SANTIAGO, Cuba _ Pope John Paul II traveled to the symbolic heart of Cuban nationhood Saturday and told tens of thousands of Cubans gathered for the pontiff’s third open-air Mass that the church isn’t interested in political power but needs freedom to carry out his mission.”The church, immersed in civil […]
NEWS FEATURE: Academics turning to the study of how forgiveness works
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Forgiveness. It is both a central concept in many religions, especially Christianity, and one of the most difficult human acts to carry out sincerely. But even as the word seems to attach itself to every major news story _ from the possible impeachment of President Clinton to building […]
HOLIDAY FEATURE: `A Christmas Carol’ _ literature as sacred tradition
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ One hundred and fifty-five years ago, Christmas was in crisis. A holiday celebrated in the castles and great halls of medieval England was slowly being eroded by urbanization. That is, until the year Charles Dickens came along with a lively tale of ghosts and greed that changed it […]
NEWS STORY: Pope calls for international action to bring peace to Kosovo
By Chris Smith — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service SPLIT, Croatia _ Pope John Paul II called on the international community Sunday (Oct. 4) to provide”timely help”to resolve the”continuing tragedy”in Kosovo. The pontiff, speaking in a city swollen with refugees from the ethnic and religious bloodletting that followed the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1991 also urged the […]
NEWS STORY: Evangelical editor, scholar Lindsell dead at 84
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Harold Lindsell, a former editor of the evangelical magazine Christianity Today and author of the 1976 book “The Battle for the Bible,” died Jan. 15 in Lake Forest, Calif., after a long illness. He was 84. His book, which argued the so-called”inerrantist”approach to biblical interpretation _ that the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Survey: Religious teens more likely to avoid smoking, drinking, drugs (RNS) A new survey of teens’ attitudes shows that those who participate in religious activities are less likely than other teens to smoke, drink or use drugs. The survey released Tuesday (Sept. 1) by the National Center on Addiction and […]
