entertainment & pop culture
TOP STORY: THE HOLOCAUST: A message of tolerance from the woman who sheltered Anne Frank
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS)-To watch Miep Gies with children is to understand why Anne Frank loved her. Gies, who risked her life to hide the Frank family from the Nazis during World War II, told Cleveland-area junior high school students that for a long while she hated all Germans and Austrians because […]
NEWS FEATURE: New crop of priests-to-be breaks the stereotype
By Cathleen Falsani — March 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CHICAGO (RNS)-Like many college students, Juan De La Cruz and his buddies live in the balance between work and play. Last year, their teams won the university’s intramural soccer, football and softball championships. Some of them formed a band, recorded a CD and play gigs around town. But after graduation, […]
COMMENTARY: Jumping the gun, so to speak, on TV violence
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — March 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book”Real Choices,”is active in the National Women’s Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-Coming soon to your home theater: ratings for TV shows. Entertainment industry executives, wary […]
REVIEW: Documentary restores the human dimension to Anne Frank
By RNS Blog Editor — March 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Anne Frank’s diary has been read by millions of schoolchildren. It has been made into a film, a Broadway play and a television special. Now, with the documentary”Anne Frank Remembered,”written, produced and directed by Jon Blair, an important character has been added to her story: Anne Frank. Sentiment has nearly […]
TOP STORY: ARTS AND RELIGION: Houses of worship, temples of dreams
By RNS Blog Editor — February 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Particles of light trickle through a stained-glass window. The beam of a movie projector casts scenes of grace and grandeur onto the screen of a hushed and darkened theater. To novelist John Updike, both images resonate with ideas of the sacred: the church, a place to offer prayers; the cinema, […]
NEWS STORY: Pope urges media to foster improved image of women
By RNS Blog Editor — January 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has called on the mass media to cease their”exploitation of women”in print, broadcast and cinema portrayals, and promote the rights and”dignity”of women by accurately depicting their lives. The pope wrote in a message prepared for the Vatican’s 30th World Communications Day, on May 16, […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican goes interactive with museum treasures
By RNS Blog Editor — January 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Why spend richly to tour the Vatican museums, along hot, crowded and noisy corridors, when you can take in the artistic richness of the Catholic Church’s artifacts and paintings at home? The question may now be more than academic. The Vatican on Thursday (Jan. 18) unveiled the first […]
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: 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: The best rituals of Christmas are homegrown
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 _ Each Christmas season, the frosty, gilt-edged air brings to mind memories of childhood: my mother’s voice lulling […]
NEWS STORY: VIOLENT TOYS: Group releases list of unacceptable playthings
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A toy based on the movie”Independence Day”that includes models of real public buildings that collapse when”bombed”is among the toys that a Maryland organization is urging parents not to purchase this holiday season. Daphne White, executive director of The Lion & Lamb Project based in Bethesda, Md., said the”dirty […]
COMMENTARY: Origin of the species is more mysterious than the apes
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) The keepers of the Copenhagen Zoo recently […]
COMMENTARY: GI Joe courts disaster with GI Jennifer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ Readers of a certain age will […]
COMMENTARY: GI Joe courts disaster with GI Jennifer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ Readers of a certain age will […]
COMMENTARY: Future holds more reason for fear than for nostalgia
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 _ In the bargain box at Blockbuster Video, my 16-year-old son recently found”Rosemary’s Baby,”the 1968 thriller about the birth of Satan’s heir in a witches’ coven on […]
