education
COMMENTARY: Binge Drinking is Endangering All College Students
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Last month a young man with a world of promise was killed in my town. He was not in a high-crime area; in fact, he was on the campus of one of the country’s most selective private universities. He was not murdered with a knife or a gun. Although […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jesus Scholar Crossan Answers His Critics
By Nancy Haught — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) By his own estimation, John Dominic Crossan has in the past 10 years written about a million words on Jesus. But Crossan’s critics always had the last word. You write about Jesus as a peasant, they said, because you are from a peasant country (Ireland). You write about Jesus […]
COMMENTARY: Real Questions, Real Answers
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) Riding home from the airport Sunday, my 9-year-old son fired questions at me. Could we go to a college soccer game tomorrow? Could we watch a movie? Could we […]
COMMENTARY: When Mission Is a Matter of Perspective
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) When my wife asks me to swing by the public library to return some books, I have to ask for directions. That seems strange to me. No, not because […]
COMMENTARY: When Mission Is a Matter of Perspective
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) When my wife asks me to swing by the public library to return some books, I have to ask for directions. That seems strange to me. No, not because […]
NEWS FEATURE: New York Singles Flock to Rabbi’s Wife for Advice, Match-Making
By Ansley Roan — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Hundreds of single, hip professionals on Manhattan’s Upper East Side set aside their skim lattes and turn off their cell phones on Tuesday nights because they are looking for more than sex in the city. It’s not power yoga or a trendy guru who brings them together. […]
NEWS STORY: Faith-based colleges failing to influence religious behavior of adult students
By Shelvia Dancy — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Though increasingly successful in attracting adult students, faith-based colleges are less successful at influencing their religious behavior, according to a new national survey of graduates.”The good news is that the nontraditional students we talked to were very happy with their programs _ some said it helped them with their […]
NEWS FEATURE: Advice From the Bard _ What Would Shakespeare Say?
By Shelvia Dancy — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) With intriguing tales of love thwarted and ancient wrongs avenged, William Shakespeare has long reigned as English literature’s Renaissance scribe sans pareil. But some 400 years after the Bard’s death, a California Shakespeare buff has unearthed a new niche for the 16th century playwright: Renaissance Oprah. “We’ve taken so […]
COMMENTARY: The Forgotten Victims of Crime
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.) (UNDATED) At first glance, Annie Smith’s visage reflects […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian History Comes Alive in New TV Series
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The complex history of Christianity, which was born as a small and obscure movement but has become the world’s dominant faith, is explored in an upcoming TV series. “Christianity: The Second Millennium” does an admirable job of compressing the last 1,000 years of Christian history into four concise and […]
COMMENTARY: Mourning the Loss of Israel’s Intellectual Crown Jewels
By James Rudin — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Two giants of the human spirit died within a week of each other last month in Jerusalem. David Flusser, a scholar of the first century, and Yehuda Amichai, a poet of the 20th, were among the intellectual […]
COMMENTARY: Let the Christmas Card Rush Begin
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two sons and the author of five books.) (UNDATED) In about a week, the first pangs of guilt will strike. They will be brought on by a Christmas card with an embossed return address, a perfect studio photo and a lovely letter detailing […]
COMMENTARY: Why my SAT score was wrong and other injustices of life
By Dale Hanson Bourke — June 3, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and gets hives when she gets within 100 miles of Princeton, N.J.) UNDATED _ If someone had just asked me, I could have settled the whole thing years ago. But it finally took the U.S. Department of Education to explain what has […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — February 12, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Israeli president warns of violence at Orthodox protest (RNS) With Orthodox leaders threatening to mobilize a half-million supporters for a weekend protest, Israel’s president met Thursday (Feb. 11) with a leading rabbi in an effort he said was designed to prevent bloodshed should secular counter-demonstrators also turn out. President Ezer […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author urges sexual counter-revolution
By Karen Long — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ At age 23, Wendy Shalit has burst onto the American public scene as the newest Rorschach test. Reactions to her book promoting sexual modesty range from raves to withering dismissals. George Will, in Newsweek, turned in a rave: “Think Katie Couric with Edith Wharton’s mind.” Fellow Gen-Xer Katie […]
