interfaith
COMMENTARY: Conversing across the ages with some very important people
By RNS Blog Editor — July 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) Reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton imagined talking with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mohandas K. Gandhi set me thinking. Which people of the past would I choose as conversational partners? Assuming that such communication is possible (e-mail, pagers […]
TOP STORY: THE AMERICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: Orthodox Christians say goodbye to a man for all seasons
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ The memorial service had just concluded for the Rev. James Reeb, a Boston minister beaten to death in 1965 by white toughs in Selma, Ala., who could not abide the idea of a white man defending a black man’s cause. Standing beside Martin Luther King, Jr. and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — July 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Russian politician apologizes for slur on foreign religions (RNS) Alexander Lebed, a retired general who heads Russia’s Security Council, apologized Tuesday (July 2) for calling Mormons and other non-Russian religions “filth and scum.” “I didn’t want to offend anyone,” Lebed told a news conference in Moscow. But he also reiterated […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service National Catholic Reporter faces $30 million libel suit for labor story (RNS) Briggs & Stratton, the Milwaukee, Wis.-based manufacturer of lawn mower and other small engines, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the independent National Catholic Reporter (NCR), alleging the newspaper defamed the company and some of its top […]
NEWS STORY: `United Religions’ summit shows signs of division
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ As delegates assembled here this week (June 24-28) for meetings to create a global, interfaith”United Religions”organization, three conference participants showed just how difficult a task they are confronting. California Episcopal Bishop William Swing, who is hosting the United Religions summit, said the initiative aims to establish a […]
NEWS STORY: `United Religions’ summit shows signs of division
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ As delegates assembled here this week (June 24-28) for meetings to create a global, interfaith”United Religions”organization, three conference participants showed just how difficult a task they are confronting. California Episcopal Bishop William Swing, who is hosting the United Religions summit, said the initiative aims to establish a […]
COMMENTARY: Southern Baptists will fail in their attempt to convert Jews
By James Rudin — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) It’s too bad Andrew Marvell, the 17th-century English poet, wasn’t in New Orleans recently when the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution calling for an active conversion campaign aimed at the Jewish people. Had the poet […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Report says Bonhoeffer soon to be pardoned (RNS) The German government may be about to pardon Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian executed by the Nazis and who is still listed under German law as guilty of high treason. Reuters news agency Monday (June 24) quoted unnamed German legal sources as […]
COMMENTARY: From the ashes of hatred, we must rebuild the house of God
By James Rudin — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-“They have set your sanctuary on fire, and profanely demolished the dwelling place of God’s Name to the ground. … Determined to destroy us once and for all, they have burned down every meeting place of God […]
COMMENTARY: In America’s spiritual marketplace, Baptists and Jews collide
By Ira Rifkin — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-We Jews have a hard time with Jesus, and for good reason. For 2,000 years, Christians have been trying to convert us, at times with much bloodshed, usually ours. Still, I see no reason to get worked up over the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent decision to appoint a missionary whose […]
TOP STORY: ISRAELI ELECTIONS: Netanyahu aide says peace process will continue
By Ira Rifkin — June 15, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS)-Israel’s new Likud government has signaled American Jewish leaders that it does not intend to scuttle the Middle East peace process or roll back recent gains achieved in the Jewish state by Judaism’s non-Orthodox movements. Speaking Thursday (June 13) to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major […]
NEWS STORY: Disney boycott capstone of Baptist meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Wiley Drake quickly shed his Mickey Mouse tie Wednesday (June 12) after persuading his fellow Southern Baptists to call for a nationwide boycott of the Walt Disney Co., accusing the entertainment giant of promoting”anti-Christian and anti-family”values. But Drake said his own boycott resolution, adopted overwhelmingly by delegates to the Baptists’ […]
NEWS STORY: Disney boycott capstone of Baptist meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Wiley Drake quickly shed his Mickey Mouse tie Wednesday (June 12) after persuading his fellow Southern Baptists to call for a nationwide boycott of the Walt Disney Co., accusing the entertainment giant of promoting”anti-Christian and anti-family”values. But Drake said his own boycott resolution, adopted overwhelmingly by delegates to the Baptists’ […]
COMMENTARY: A new reality sets in for Israel
By James Rudin — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee. (RNS)-An Israeli friend once compared the Middle East peace process to an accelerating train speeding past one station after another without stopping to pick up passengers. Warming to the metaphor, he described the train’s crew members as […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Warner beats Christian conservative-backed foe in Virginia GOP primary (RNS)-Virginia Sen. John W. Warner won an overwhelming Republican primary victory Tuesday (June 11) in a vote that some have interpreted as a defeat for Christian conservatives. Warner, a three-term incumbent, garnered about 66 percent of the vote to defeat challenger […]