Buddhism
NEWS FEATURE: BROTHERS IN MUSIC: Singers discover interfaith album strikes sour note
By Chris Smith — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ When two top artists in contemporary Christian music decided to do an album and concert tour together, they thought they were simply celebrating their shared faith and an admiration for each others’ music. But Michael Card is an evangelical Protestant and John Michael Talbot is a Roman Catholic. […]
COMMENTARY: Honor your father and mother: Protect them from cults
By James Rudin — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Eighteen years ago this month the catastrophe known as”Jonestown”took place in a Guyana jungle. On orders from the Rev. Jim Jones, the People’s Temple leader, 912 members of his cult perished, along with U.S. Rep. Leo […]
COMMENTARY: A new big brother wields censor’s scissors
By Mark J. Seitz — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Eds: Matt Zoller Seitz writes for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.) (UNDATED) A while back, a friend told me he’d become a fan of the edgy, offbeat character actor Harvey Keitel. I urged him to rent “Bad Lieutenant,” a 1992 urban drama starring Keitel as a cop who’s fallen so […]
BODY & SOUL: Power can be a vice or a virtue
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.) (UNDATED) As Americans prepare to vote in the upcoming presidential election, they will be exercising their power as citizens […]
BODY & SOUL: Meet the new year by coming together in prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books.) UNDATED _ The year will soon be over and a new one is waiting to be born. Such times […]
NEWS STORY: Rights group raises case of detained U.S. Christian in Vietnam
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Freedom House, a New York-based human rights group, has asked President Clinton to personally intervene in the case of an American woman who has been detained in Vietnam and accused of”illegal religious propaganda”for distributing pens with Christian crosses on them. Man Thi Jones, a 54-year-old nurse from Sacramento, […]
TOP STORY: THE ETHICS OF VOTING: Hold your nose, pull the lever: For some, it takes two hands to vot
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In rural Northern Virginia, Judie Brown has made the fight against abortion her personal crusade. An hour’s drive away in inner-city Washington, D.C., Carol Fennelly is a veteran advocate for the homeless. The two women are activists on radically different ends of the political spectrum, but on Election […]
TOP STORY: MEDITATION: Embracing his own death, Bernardin puts Kevorkian to shame
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy is a writer living in Chicago.) CHICAGO _ Cardinal Joseph Bernardin dresses conventionally, speaks in a zephyr-gentle voice and has spent most of his life as a priest and a bishop behind a desk. He has never led a demonstration, picketed an abortion clinic, spilled animal blood at […]
MEDITATION: Embracing his own death, Bernardin put Kevorkian to shame
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy is a writer living in Chicago.) CHICAGO _ Cardinal Joseph Bernardin dressed conventionally, spoke in a zephyr-gentle voice and spent most of his life as a priest and a bishop behind a desk. In his 68 years on earth, he never led a demonstration, picketed an abortion clinic, […]
TOP STORY: BISHOPS END MEETING: Spirit of Bernardin permeates bishops meeting
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ From an opening prayer as he lay dying, to the meeting’s final debate on a restructuring plan he had overseen, the spirit of the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin hovered over this week’s sessions of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). More than any other of the […]
NEWS STORY: Church, nation bid farewell to Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The church he loved and the nation whose public policy he sought to influence for a quarter of a century said farewell Wednesday (Nov. 20) to Chicago’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin. With his friend and colleague Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles presiding and Vice President […]
NEWS STORY: LUTHERANS AND EPISCOPALIANS: Lutheran and Episcopal bishops thrash out unity proposal
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ At a critical moment near the end of the historic six-day joint meeting of the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Lutherans sent what amounted to a small valentine to the Episcopal prelates meeting separately, some 100 feet […]
TOP STORY: HEROINES OF HANUKKAH: Jewish feminists revive tales of the heroines of Hanukkah
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As a young girl, Lucy Steinitz felt her Jewish sensibilities stirred each Hanukkah as she listened to the often repeated story of how some 2,100 years ago Mattathias and his five sons _ including the legendary Judah the Maccabee _ routed their Syrian oppressors, recaptured the Jerusalem temple […]
FEATURE STORY: HEROINES OF HANUKKAH: Jewish feminists revive tales of the heroines of Hanukkah
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As a young girl, Lucy Steinitz felt her Jewish sensibilities stirred each Hanukkah as she listened to the often repeated story of how some 2,100 years ago Mattathias and his five sons _ including the legendary Judah the Maccabee _ routed their Syrian oppressors, recaptured the Jerusalem temple […]
NEWS STORY: Interfaith meeting reignites rancor between Southern Baptists and Jews
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service STAMFORD, Conn. _ Kitty Cohen is a Holocaust survivor from Israel; Philip P. Roberts is a Southern Baptist official who directs his denomination’s interfaith witness activities. Put them in the same room to discuss a controversial Southern Baptist missionary program to Jews and they personify the inherent difficulties of interfaith […]
