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COMMENTARY: Diary of a Congressional witness
By James Rudin — August 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (UNDATED) I recently presented testimony in Washington, D.C., before the House Judiciary Subcommittee that is considering a constitutional amendment on religion. Two entries in my diary speak volumes about the current religious and political climate in America. […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Mormon families follow in the footsteps of their forebears
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Tom and Linda Whitaker of Midway, Utah, and five of their six children have set forth on the same journey their beleaguered Mormon ancestors took 150 years ago, as they fled religious persecution and went searching for a promised land. At the break of dawn Monday (June 17), […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
NEWS STORY: Group faces uphill fight over Clinton abortion veto
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.-National Right to Life Committee officials say they face an uphill educational battle in seeking to reverse President Clinton’s recent veto of a bill banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. According to a poll announced at the group’s annual meeting Thursday (June 20), more than 70 percent of U.S. […]
COMMENTARY: Children: A divine inheritance
By RNS Blog Editor — June 18, 1996
c. 1996 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.) (RNS)-“Children are a heritage from the Lord,”the Bible tells us,”a reward from Him.”This instruction, expressed in Psalm 127, reminds us that […]
COMMENTARY: Children: A divine inheritance
By RNS Blog Editor — June 18, 1996
c. 1996 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.) (RNS)-“Children are a heritage from the Lord,”the Bible tells us,”a reward from Him.”This instruction, expressed in Psalm 127, reminds us that […]
COMMENTARY: Summer camp can have a spiritual dimension
By Dale Hanson Bourke — June 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS)-For the past week I have spent much of my time marking, etching, and sewing my son’s name on everything from underwear to a sleeping bag to a tube of toothpaste. The instructions from his […]
COMMENTARY: Summer camp can have a spiritual dimension
By Dale Hanson Bourke — June 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS)-For the past week I have spent much of my time marking, etching, and sewing my son’s name on everything from underwear to a sleeping bag to a tube of toothpaste. The instructions from his […]
NEWS STORY: Survey says most U.S. Catholics want liberal reforms
By Adelle M. Banks — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The next pope should allow women priests, married priests and more lay pontifical advisers, according to a poll of U.S. Catholics released today (May 30). The survey, conducted by the Gallup Organization, was commissioned by sociologist and author Andrew M. Greeley of the University of Chicago and Michael Hout, a […]
COMMENTARY: An anatomical argument for the existence of God
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — May 29, 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”and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (RNS)-I found out the other day I have a pancreas. Not that I would have ever denied it; I know that the existence of […]
COMMENTARY: Whistling while we worship
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of”Turn Toward the Wind.”) (RNS)-When my husband went to pick up our youngest son after church last week, he found him interrogating his Sunday school teacher. The second graders are learning the church creeds, and Tyler is a […]
TOP STORY: BILLY GRAHAM: Clinton, others praise Graham at Washington dinner
By Adelle M. Banks — May 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Celebrities ranging from radio commentator Paul Harvey to President Bill Clinton spoke at a dinner Thursday (May 2) of how Billy Graham had touched their lives, capping a momentous day honoring the evangelist and his wife. The evening event followed a ceremony in which Billy and Ruth Graham were […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Billy, Ruth Graham receive Congressional Gold Medal
By Adelle M. Banks — May 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Surrounded by statues of historic American leaders, the Rev. Billy Graham, 77, and his wife, Ruth, 75, were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal today (May 2) in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The Grahams were the guests of honor at a ceremony attended by more than 600 people-a veritable […]
COMMENTARY: Wisdom means learning to number our days
By RNS Blog Editor — April 18, 1996
c. 1996 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.) (RNS)-They buried my friend Andrea the other day, and part of my youth went with her. Hers is the first death […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic prelates rip `shameful’ Clinton abortion-bill veto
By Adelle M. Banks — April 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-In a strongly worded letter, American cardinals and the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops have condemned President Clinton’s recent veto of a proposed law banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. “Your veto of this bill is beyond comprehension for those who hold human life sacred,” they said. […]
