Arts & Media
NEWS STORY: LOOTED TREASURES: Auction of looted art leads Austria to face a sordid past
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There are no seminal works by Picasso or Titian or Manet in the 874 lots to be auctioned next week in a Vienna museum. The paintings of bucolic landscapes and society portraits for sale depict the normal, bourgeois world in which many of the former owners once dwelled. And […]
TOP STORY: AFTER THE FALL: On the road from sin to redemption, Bakker discovers a new reality
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A decade ago, when the PTL television ministry was at its peak, Jim Bakker was so busy raising money he hardly had time to read the Bible. Now, after five years in prison and two years of introspection on a rented North Carolina farm, he considers the holy book, […]
TOP STORY: An `angel’ who speaks from her own pulpit
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ On television each Sunday night, she’s Tess, the senior seraph on the CBS series”Touched By an Angel”who advises apprentice-angel Monica on how to best deliver God’s guidance to needy and unsuspecting people. But on Sunday mornings, the singer-actress known in real life as the Rev. Della Reese […]
Christian music stars face a dilemma – faith versus fame
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
During Christian music's heyday, the trappings of fame often distracted from the ministry.
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