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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 […]
COMMENTARY: Tell me an old, old story
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 19, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service) UNDATED _ We are assaulted by e-mail, bombarded by phone messages. News bites inform us and sitcoms entertain us. Beepers and car phones ensure we are always within reach. But despite the dizzying technological advances, part of us remains unreached. […]
NEWS FEATURE: College grads put faith, idealism to work as inner-city volunteers
By Jacqui Lewis — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Fresh out of college, Stefanie Atwater counsels rape victims and gives community presentations on sexual violence. As a member of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, she’s getting hands-on experience she hadn’t expected to have so soon after graduation.”It’s the best thing I could have done right out of college, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Church group inspired by moral lessons from Mayberry
By Ed White — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ In a scene on”The Andy Griffith Show”that takes place in church, a visiting speaker extols the merits of taking life slow and easy. Afterward, as they exit the church, Andy and Barney shake hands with the speaker.”Yes sir,”Barney says to him about the sermon,”That’s one subject you […]
NEWS FEATURE: Theologian: `Cheek-by-jowl’ society requires interfaith acceptance
By Karen Long — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HIRAM, Ohio _ In Los Angeles, there are 241 Buddhist temples. In Boston, the most recent valedictorian and salutatorian at Harvard University were Hindu and Buddhist _ both born in the United States. In Hiram, Muslim students invited their entire college to mark Ramadan with them for the first time […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Methodist pastor takes moral lessons of Mayberry to college campuses
By Ed White — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. Neal Brower was six months younger than Ron”Opie Taylor”Howard when”The Andy Griffith Show”debuted Oct. 3, 1960. A North Carolina native, Brower was not only captivated by the show, which was based in the fictional hamlet of Mayberry, N.C., but he especially related to Howard, one of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Ursuline nuns sell library to preserve pages of past
By Charles Pope — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Seeking to save a matchless trove of Bibles, prayer books and historic documents from the corrosive elements of time, the Ursuline nuns here have sold their extensive library to the Historic New Orleans Collection, which will both protect the treasures and make them available to researchers. The […]
NEWS STORY: Castro praises pope, reflects on faith in meeting with U.S. editors
By Daniel Howell — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HAVANA _ A reflective Fidel Castro praised Pope John Paul II and spoke openly of his own feelings about religion and his religious upbringing during a recent wide-ranging interview with a delegation of U.S. newspaper editors. Castro has long had an ambiguous relationship to religion, despite his record of religious […]
NEWS FEATURE: Teaching ritual as a way to transcendence
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Tall, dark, beautiful and belligerent-looking, Nan Hall Linke’s doll is a maiden who became a warrior. But Linke, a therapist with a special focus on the spiritual and an interior world ripe with dreams, symbols and archetypes, has no trouble imagining such a transformation. Indeed, transformation is what […]
COMMENTARY: How far does non-privacy go?
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is the author of”On a Journey,”daily meditations available through Journey Publishing Co. If you have feedback or want to suggest a question for a future column, send e-mail to: journey(AT)interpath.com) UNDATED _ I log on to the Internet to check basketball scores and I’m immediately handed a”cookie.” This”cookie”isn’t […]
COMMENTARY: The lucky and the not-so-lucky
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is the author of”On a Journey,”daily meditations available through Journey Publishing Co. If you have feedback or want to suggest a question for a future column, send e-mail to: journey(AT)interpath.com) UNDATED _ My mind was drifting. Earnest words filled the high school auditorium. I hoped induction into the […]
COMMENTARY: Parenting is about doing the best you can
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is the author of”On a Journey,”daily meditations available through Journey Publishing Co. If you have feedback or want to suggest a question for a future column, send e-mail to: journey(AT)interpath.com) UNDATED _”I’m just about sick with hurt and disgust,”writes a reader. Her son is a freshman at college.”The […]
NEWS STORY: NCAA to reconsider its rule on Sunday championship games
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ After coming just one vote short of getting a controversial new rule suspended, officials at two faith-based universities say they are pleased the National Collegiate Athletic Association must still reconsider its decision to eliminate the regulation accommodating schools opposed to playing championship games on Sundays. The association’s Division […]
COMMENTARY: March Madness is just that
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1997
c. 1997 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 _ This March college basketball madness should stop. It is a caricature of […]
The lonely, lucrative journey of JZ Knight
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service YELM, Wash. _ Whether she’s channeling the spirit of the ancient warrior Ramtha or whether she’s not, JZ Knight is a nonstop talker, given to the occasional malapropism. She is a whip-smart woman who takes a particular pride that her lack of formal education has made her a suitable vehicle […]
