Doctrine & Practice
BACKGROUNDER: HEBRON
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HEBRON, West Bank _ Thousands of years after the biblical patriarch Abraham purchased a family burial ground in this ancient Canaanite town, the”Cave of Machpelah”_ or”Cave of the Patriarchs”as it is often called _ is probably the world’s most bitterly disputed cemetery. It is also the religious soul of the […]
COMMENTARY: Walking the labyrinth, a pathway to God
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. _ The gym at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church here had signs calling for quiet. Inside the front door, two women talked in hushed tones. I came […]
COMMENTARY: Seeking inspiration in silence and solitude
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C, an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ Finally the rain stops. It was Southern California’s first serious rain in eight months, so one can hardly begrudge it. But I am glad for a […]
COMMENTARY: Of pots and pans, shoe polish, and death.
By James Rudin — January 1, 1995
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED _ Imagine that your country is suffering under harsh military occupation. The authorities have just ordered you and your family, including children, to report to the local train station tomorrow morning. If you resist in any […]
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