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TOP STORY: MINISTRY OF MARY: Visions of Mary inspire faith and skepticism
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service EATON TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ The pilgrimage began two years ago, when a handful of Catholics stopped their car to pray. Maureen Sweeney, a member of the nondenominational Missionary Servants of Holy Love, said the Virgin Mary spoke to her, as she had hundreds of times before. The message that day […]
NEWS STORY: State Department names religious freedom advisory committee
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The U.S. State Department Tuesday (Nov. 12) formally announced the formation of a special advisory committee to study religious persecution around the world and recommend U.S. foreign policy responses. The panel is comprised of 20 members from across the religious spectrum and is chaired by Assistant Secretary of […]
NEWS STORY: JUDAISM: Survey points out contradictions in Conservative Judaism
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A new survey of Conservative Jews shows that more than two-thirds reject traditional Judaism’s insistence that only the children of Jewish mothers can be called Jewish at birth, regardless of the father’s religious identity. Yet the same survey also showed that 62 percent believe that Conservative Jews are”obligated to […]
TOP STORY: TRANSLATING GENESIS: Stephen Mitchell: Glimpsing Genesis through a Zen lens
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BERKELEY, Calif. _ Having made his reputation as a translator of sacred texts, Stephen Mitchell usually has no trouble expressing himself. But as he recounts the inception of an upcoming Bill Moyers series on the Book of Genesis _ in which Mitchell participates _ there’s a moment when he gets […]
COMMENTARY: Saving souls on the subway a moving experience
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) UNDATED _ The Metro train roared by the assembled morning commuters, screeching to a stop as we inched our way toward the edge of the platform. A door opened directly in front of me and […]
COMMENTARY: Surprises of Christmas herald a light that never fades
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 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 _Christmas is all about surprises. Our pagan ancestors were surprised each year when […]
Now Falwell says he’s not a Southern Baptist
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ After proclaiming a week ago his solidarity with the Southern Baptist Convention and making a $1,000 contribution to a new Southern Baptist group in Virginia, Jerry Falwell now says he does not consider himself a Southern Baptist. At a Wednesday (Oct. 30) night service, Falwell told members of […]
TOP STORY: FALWELL REALIGNS: Long an independent, Jerry Falwell joins Southern Baptist fold
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a longtime independent Baptist preacher, announced this week he has become a Southern Baptist. Falwell said the decision to align his 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., with the Southern Baptist Convention was influenced by the recent creation of a second, more […]
TOP STORY: AN HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH: An historic `Freedom Church’ marks two centuries of pain
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ There was a time in the Methodist Episcopal Church that black members had to wait until white congregants took Communion before they could approach the altar. Black preachers were given limited opportunities to speak _ occasionally to other blacks, never to whites. Even at baptisms, whites were […]
Explorer’s myth of `lost tribe of Israel’ helped feed Hutu-Tutsi woes
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BUJUMBURA, Burundi _ Inside the small cottage on the mission grounds that he shares with his wife Eleanor, Carl Johnson regales a visitor with tales of anything from African colonial history to his boyhood days growing up in Jacksonville, Fla. His conversation rambles from a detailed explanation of Livingstone’s search […]
Now Falwell says he’s not a Southern Baptist
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ After proclaiming a week ago his solidarity with the Southern Baptist Convention and making a $1,000 contribution to a new Southern Baptist group in Virginia, Jerry Falwell now says he does not consider himself a Southern Baptist. At a Wednesday (Oct. 30) night service, Falwell told members of […]
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