education
NEWS FEATURE: Evangelists bring promise of salvation with Moscow truck-stop ministry
By Christa Brown — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service MOSCOW _ If there were a special place in hell for wicked truckers, it might well look like the wretched Rostov truck stop located on the 8-lane highway that encircles this city. Calling it a truck stop is being generous. There is no restaurant, no snack bar, no store, no […]
NEWS FEATURE: Philanthropist’s gift aims at college spirituality
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service BOSTON _ Boston College was in a bind. With inadequate slots for volunteer work and student spiritual retreats, the Jesuit college was forced last year to wait-list 150 students for a program that combines academics and community service and 400 students for a weekend retreat program. Enter John McNeice. The […]
COMMENTARY: An ancient truth
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (The Rev. Carter Heyward is an Episcopal priest and professor of theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.) UNDATED _ One of the most widely read and radical feminist theologians in the world today, Mary Daly, is just too much for the good Christian gentlemen at Boston College. […]
COMMENTARY: From puzzlement to frustration to blame
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) UNDATED _ When e-mail problems began last week, I looked first for answers. What was causing some people not to receive the daily meditations that I send to interested readers? I looked for small answers _ incorrect […]
COMMENTARY: Real knowing
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) INDIANAPOLIS – When I walk in my hometown, I like to include a stretch through my old neighborhood. For a time after leaving for college, I could still see the games we played […]
COMMENTARY: Leaving the Vu
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) UNDATED _ A week ago, while in the role of son, I went for a run along the canal cutting diagonally across the north side of my hometown. At 52nd Street I turned […]
COMMENTARY: Math and a large God
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) UNDATED _ Labor Day weekend brought two boys home from college and unusual topics to our dinner table conversation. We talked about mathematics. Our middle son is gazing into the infinite realm of […]
COMMENTARY: Kansas, evolution and anthropology
By Chris Smith — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Huston Smith, author of”The World’s Religions,”taught philosophy and religion at the University of California-Berkeley, Syracuse University, M.I.T. and Washington University.) UNDATED _ The decision of the Kansas Board of Education to limit the teaching of evolution shows once again that this issue isn’t going to go away until we handle […]
COMMENTARY: Home schooling becomes a choice, not a cause
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ In the beginning, home-schoolers got no respect. They were labeled reactionaries, extremists, fundamentalists _ and that was mostly by their churchgoing brethren. The rest of the world simply called them nuts and charged that their children would receive poor education and […]
COMMENTARY: Catholic colleges in trouble
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 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 _ The Roman Catholic colleges and universities are the great jewel of the […]
COMMENTARY: Where has all the passion gone?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.) UNDATED _ As the summer of ’99 winds down, it seems that we have spent most of it reminiscing about the summer of ’69. We have relived Woodstock, revisited the first moon walk and remembered the Vietnam War. They were the best of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Kentucky drops `evolution’ from science teaching guidelines (RNS) Kentucky education officials have replaced the world”evolution”with the phrase”biological change over time”in their state’s guidelines for teaching science. Officials stressed that they have not diminished the teaching of evolution. Deputy Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit said”evolution”was replaced because it was”a lightning rod that […]
NEWS FEATURE: For organizers, `Christian Woodstock’ is leap of faith
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service PORT AUSTIN, Mich. _ Word has gone out to all the world that Port Austin College of Advanced Bible Study in this sleepy village of about 800 will be the site next weekend of what’s being heralded as the”Christian Woodstock.” Well, not all the world. Village officials learned most of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Genealogists expect treasure trove when Mormon records go online
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Much to the delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the first time next month, if not sooner. The new Web site (http://www.familysearch.org) won’t officially launch until mid-April, but it is […]
COMMENTARY: Where have all the unisexuals gone?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 14, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons who prefer to be called”manly men.”) UNDATED _ I’m so old, I remember when unisex was a new, risque term. Back in those days, we ducked into shops promising unisex fashions and stuffed our newly rounded […]
