Law & Court
NEWS FEATURE: Poll Sees Parents, Not Guns, as Cause of Youth Violence
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 2003
(UNDATED) A poll timed to the first anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre finds Americans believe the primary cause for school shootings and youth violence is the drop in parental quality time with children, not the availability of guns. The poll was conducted for YROCK.com, a new political Web site whose acronymn stands for […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 20, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Prince Charles Warns of Lost `Sacred Trust’ (RNS) Britain’s Prince Charles on Wednesday (May 17) warned that a growing reliance on reason and science threatens to rupture “the sacred trust between mankind and our Creator.” The heir to the British throne has long been a supporter of the environment and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 20, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Prince Charles Warns of Lost `Sacred Trust’ (RNS) Britain’s Prince Charles on Wednesday (May 17) warned that a growing reliance on reason and science threatens to rupture “the sacred trust between mankind and our Creator.” The heir to the British throne has long been a supporter of the environment and […]
NEWS FEATURE: Do the Gospels Meet the Legal Test of Evidence
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Pamela Binnings Ewen was a true child of the `60s. She read Ayn Rand, the ultra-libertarian author of”The Fountainhead.”She hung out with people who argued philosophies with names like objectivism and existentialism. She remembers the famous Time magazine cover early in that decade which asked: “Is God dead?” […]
NEWS FEATURE: Do the Gospels Meet the Legal Test of Evidence
By Cecile Holmes — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Pamela Binnings Ewen was a true child of the `60s. She read Ayn Rand, the ultra-libertarian author of”The Fountainhead.”She hung out with people who argued philosophies with names like objectivism and existentialism. She remembers the famous Time magazine cover early in that decade which asked: “Is God dead?” […]
COMMENTARY: The Injustice of the Justice System
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) A comprehensive report compiled by a professor […]
COMMENTARY: Tied Hands: The Tragic Death of Gary Graham
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) Like much of the nation, I sat […]
NEWS STORY: Pope Beatifies Popes John XXIII and “Slandered’’ Pius IX
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ In a solemn ceremony clouded by controversy, Pope John Paul II on Sunday (Sept. 3) beatified Pope John XXIII and his “much loved but also hated and slandered” 19th century predecessor, Pius IX. Some 100,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on a warm, sunny morning for […]
NEWS STORY: Canada’s Catholic Schools Fight Bankruptcy in Sex Scandal Case
By Douglas Todd — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The future of two prestigious Greater Vancouver Roman Catholic schools has turned grimmer this month as the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear their appeal of a decision clearing the way to liquidate their assets. But Vancouver College and St. Thomas More Collegiate, both run […]
NEWS STORY: Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation Sued
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ST. LOUIS _ The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation faces a class action lawsuit as a result of a $40 million investment loss suffered by the foundation in 1998. Filed at the end of September in St. Louis County Circuit Court by 15 individuals, the suit charges the foundation knowingly made […]
COMMENTARY: The Injustice of the Justice System
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) A comprehensive report compiled by a professor […]
COMMENTARY: Tied Hands: The Tragic Death of Gary Graham
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) Like much of the nation, I sat […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam off blacktop after a summer […]
FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a Jewish law casebook being used as a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam off blacktop after a summer […]
