Wicca & New Age
NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
By Adelle M. Banks — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers. He knew he was on to something.”The people who move the world are the people who believe,”said Hewitt, co-host of”Life & Times,”a public affairs show on KCET-TV, the PBS […]
NEWS FEATURE: PBS special focuses on search for God in America
By Adelle M. Banks — June 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Whenever Hugh Hewitt interviewed religious leaders on his California-based PBS television program, the phone switchboard lit up with responses from viewers. He knew he was on to something.”The people who move the world are the people who believe,”said Hewitt, co-host of”Life & Times,”a public affairs show on KCET-TV, the PBS […]
TOP STORY: THE CHARISMATIC EXPERIENCE: Spirited Toronto flock shakes, rattles, rolls—and howls
By Chris Smith — June 13, 1996
A Pentecostal church in Toronto made headlines for its controversial charismatic practices.
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
By Carl Anderson — June 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school’s intercom. “The Bill of Rights was created to protect the minority from tyranny by the majority,”Biggers said, adding an apparent reference […]
NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
By Carl Anderson — June 4, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school’s intercom. “The Bill of Rights was created to protect the minority from tyranny by the majority,”Biggers said, adding an apparent reference […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: The sky is falling. . . or is it?
By Greg Garrison — June 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A record number of hurricanes blew across the globe in 1995. An earthquake in Kobe, Japan, killed 6,000 and an unusually high number of severe tremors shook the world. Massive blizzards buffeted the United States last winter, followed by rampant flooding. A heat wave in July killed 800 in […]
COMMENTARY: Lives of the saints, lifestyles of the stars
By Ashbel S. (Tony) Green — May 15, 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)-My friend Carolyn’s icon of Mary of Egypt is completed, and on Sunday it was leaning against the brass candlestick on the altar. It […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — May 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Protestant, Jewish leaders back Clinton abortion veto (RNS)-More than two dozen top Protestant, Jewish, Unitarian and humanist leaders Tuesday (April 30) voiced their support for President Clinton’s veto of legislation banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure.”We fully support the president’s action in standing with women and their families who face […]
TOP STORY: DENOMINATIONS: Methodists remain divided on gays, but meeting forges ecumenical ties
By Carl Anderson — April 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Still divided over homosexuality but unified in seeking stronger ties with other religious bodies, the United Methodist Church’s General Conference drew to a close Friday after a series of decisions that could reshape the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. The subject of the role of homosexuals in the church dominated much […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Methodists reaffirm homosexuality is”incompatible”with Christianity (RNS)-An effort to soften the United Methodist Church’s 24-year-old stance declaring that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching was soundly defeated Wednesday (April 24) by delegates attending the denomination’s General Conference. The proposal, brought by the 8.6 million-member church’s Board of Church and Society, was […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND MEDICINE: Israeli researchers take a new look at an ancient healing traditio
By Elaine Fletcher — April 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-In antiquity, health and healing were the domain of monks, shamans and priests. But that intimate link was broken long ago in most parts of the world. One exception was the Tibetan highlands, where geographical isolation from the West helped preserve a 1,700-year-old medical tradition that combined spiritual healing […]
NEWS STORY: Methodists vote to strengthen ties with other denominations
By Steve Rabey — April 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service DENVER (RNS)-Representatives of the United Methodist Church, meeting here for the denomination’s quadrennial General Conference, voted Tuesday (April 23) to deepen ecumenical ties with a number of other Protestant denominations. Church leaders also continued to debate the issue of homosexuality, which has stirred strong emotions in the 8.9 million-member denomination. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 20, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Vatican, other religious groups condemn Israeli attacks in Lebanon (RNS)-The Vatican on Friday (April 19) joined other religious groups condemning Israel’s missile assault on a United Nations peacekeeping compound in southern Lebanon Thursday in which at least 75 were killed, and urged the warring parties to seek a political solution […]
