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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: Seeking inspiration in silence and solitude
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C, an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ Finally the rain stops. It was Southern California’s first serious rain in eight months, so one can hardly begrudge it. But I am glad for a […]
COMMENTARY: Preying on human failures to make a political point
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C, an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ My first reaction after hearing of Penthouse magazine’s expose of sex at the altar was”Damn, here we go again.” First, we will demolish the alleged perpetrators. […]
COMMENTARY: Kiss controversy: A glimpse of public morality at work
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest, author and former Wall Street Journal reporter living in Winston-Salem, N.C. Contact Ehrich via e-mail at journey(at)interpath.com.) (UNDATED) Lexington, N.C., is known mainly for its barbecue, as well as a flamboyant sheriff who recently painted jail cells pink. Now Lexington is gaining its 15 […]
COMMENTARY: Advice from the `real world’ for a bishop-to-be
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest, author and former Wall Street Journal reporter living in Winston-Salem, N.C. Contact Ehrich via e-mail at journey(at)interpath.com.) (UNDATED) A friend is a candidate for bishop in the Episcopal Church. He asked for my thoughts. Because I care for him, I told him the truth, […]
COMMENTARY: Loathing the poor’s less about morals than money
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest, author and former Wall Street Journal reporter living in Winston-Salem, N.C. Contact Ehrich via e-mail at journey(at)interpath.com.) (UNDATED)”The welfare system,”I heard a politician say,”is a disgrace to our Judeo-Christian principles.” Interesting thought. Not exactly true, but interesting. I think he means this: A welfare […]
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 […]
NEWS STORY: As cardinal nears death, evangelicals and NCC seek common ground
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In the historic moment when evangelical leader Don Argue addressed the National Council of Churches General Assembly in Chicago Wednesday (Nov. 13), the first words out of his mouth were a prayer for a dying Catholic archbishop. The appearance of Argue, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, marked […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AS A WEAPON OF WAR: In Uganda, rebels fight in name of Jesus, Allah and bad juju
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service GULU, Uganda _ Smoldering under the midday sun are the ashes of the thatch-and-mud huts that once was the village of Apec, home to over 20 families. The whole village, soldiers said, had been set afire just a few hours before.”We heard the rebels coming down the road early this […]
TOP STORY: An `angel’ who speaks from her own pulpit
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ On television each Sunday night, she’s Tess, the senior seraph on the CBS series”Touched By an Angel”who advises apprentice-angel Monica on how to best deliver God’s guidance to needy and unsuspecting people. But on Sunday mornings, the singer-actress known in real life as the Rev. Della Reese […]
TOP STORY: BURUNDI – A SPECIAL REPORT: Divided and off-balance, church in Burundi an impotent peacem
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BUJUMBURA, Burundi _ In a rural parish here, a Roman Catholic priest stands in the peaceful confines of the church garden and speaks in hushed tones about what he calls”the troubles”that haunt this tiny central African nation torn by civil war.”People come to the church every day seeking shelter either […]
At domestic violence gathering, NCC head says she, too, was abused
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Religious leaders and advocates for victims of domestic violence met here Friday (Oct. 11) for an emotional interfaith gathering marked by personal disclosures about domestic violence and challenges to Scriptural admonitions for women to submit to their husbands. The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the general secretary of the […]
BURUNDI – A SPECIAL REPORT: As ranks of refugees grow, aged missionaries face the crisis of their li
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BUJUMBURA, Burundi _ During nearly a half-century as missionaries in Africa, Carl and Eleanor Johnson have dealt with many crises, but never one as dreadful as what they face now. More than 7,000 refugees are crammed inside the 20-acre mission compound _ called Camp Johnson _ on the outskirts of […]
TOP STORY: REBUILDING BURNED CHURCHES: Donors learn a simple act of charity is a complicated thing
By Adelle M. Banks — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ There was a time when it all seemed so simple. Close to 100 mostly African-American churches have been the victim of arson or suspicious fires over the past two years. And people of faith _ all faiths _ rallied to help them rebuild. The National Council of […]
