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COMMENTARY: Finding a place in the human community
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 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”(Multnomah) and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) UNDATED _ This season of togetherness pushes people together, and in the process they find sometimes that the fit isn’t so easy. Family […]
COMMENTARY: Deconstructing the Cheshire Cat
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 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”(Multnomah) and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (UNDATED) Well, here we are. Or are we? It’s an open question among some academic sophisticates. Does anything exist? If it did, how […]
COMMENTARY: Sorry, Bob, the presidency isn’t a reward for dutiful service
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — January 1, 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”(Multnomah) and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.) (UNDATED) Sunday night’s episode of”The Simpsons”showed a briefcase-toting Bob Dole being scooped off the steps of the Republican National Committee and beamed up […]
Presidential character, glimpsed through lenses of faith and charity
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are in a double bind. The public demands that they make some show of religious belief and give generously to charity _ but questions their motives when they do. When it comes to matters of faith and charity, however, voters have some solid […]
TOP STORY: CHRISTMAS WITHOUT THE TRIMMINGS: A simple Christmas, where the light comes from within
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. _ There are no Christmas lights, but a fire burns in the wood stove. There is no Christmas tree. Instead, there is an Advent wreath _ white pine branches and purple candles that have burned their way through December. Santa isn’t coming. Mary and Joseph wait alone […]
COMMENTARY: Chicago Catholics contemplate a new regime
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 _ One of the first things likely to change when Chicago gets a […]
COMMENTARY: Reclaiming the black church’s lost sheep
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister who has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (UNDATED) A recent incident in my prison congregation underscores the struggle for relevance currently faced by black churches. Made up largely […]
COMMENTARY: Too spoiled to be grateful, too comfortable to help
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) By the standards of most of the world, Americans are extraordinarily fortunate. No wars threaten our borders, no famines claim the lives of our citizens. The vast majority of our population is employed, well […]
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: Soccer moms to candidates: We will not be wooed
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and author of”Turn Toward the Wind”.) (UNDATED) Seems like just the other day, everyone was intrigued with the angry white male. He was the one toppling politicians and determining the future of America. Now the spotlight has turned to women like me, the […]
TOP STORY: NO ROOM AT THE INN: As millennium looms, no room at the inn or anywhere else
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BETHLEHEM _ For centuries this town has resided in the hearts and minds of millions of Christians as a distant dream and symbol of the mysteries of Jesus’ birth, as a quaint Middle Eastern village sleeping under a starlit night. But as the year 2000 approaches _ and millions of […]
TOP STORY: Rabbi’s push to liberalize Israeli gun laws has critics on edge
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ As the United States and Great Britain move to restrict or even ban handgun ownership, Israel is moving in the opposite direction and critics here fear the new trend could lead to more violence in a society already deeply divided by social, political and religious conflict. Oddly enough, […]
NEWS FEATURE: DAUNTED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: In a dark time, peacemakers in Israel try to stay focused
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ As gun battles raged between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers around a tiny Jewish enclave in the West Bank Arab city of Nablus Sept. 26, Sameh Kenaan, a Palestinian security official, evacuated a wounded Jewish soldier, and then helped stop the shooting by positioning police under his command between […]
BACKGROUNDER: HEBRON
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HEBRON, West Bank _ Thousands of years after the biblical patriarch Abraham purchased a family burial ground in this ancient Canaanite town, the”Cave of Machpelah”_ or”Cave of the Patriarchs”as it is often called _ is probably the world’s most bitterly disputed cemetery. It is also the religious soul of the […]
COMMENTARY: Conflicting visions of humankind keep Ireland divided
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.) OXFORD, England _ A fundamental religious, moral, and political question in the West has […]
