Wicca & New Age
Global Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 19, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of international religion stories compiled by RNS staff, wire and denominational reports.) Episcopal Church leaders ask prayers for Bosnia peacekeepers (RNS)-Leaders of the Episcopal Church are asking Americans to pause at noon on Thursday, Jan. 25, to pray for the Bosnian peacekeeping mission and the safety […]
National Religion Report
By RNS Blog Editor — January 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Following is a collection of domestic religion stories compiled from RNS staff, wire and denominational reports). Parishioners shun visit by female Episcopal bishop (RNS)-The Rev. Arthur Woolley of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bladensburg, Md., an opponent of women’s ordination, vowed to”use every means at my disposal”to block a visit […]
NEWS STORY: Four American Baptist churches expelled over gay outreach
By Ira Rifkin — January 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Four San Francisco Bay-area American Baptist churches have been expelled from their regional jurisdiction because of their outreach to homosexuals. Delegates at a special meeting of American Baptist Churches of the West, one of 34 regional jurisdictions of the 1.5 million-member mainline Protestant American Baptist Churches in the USA, voted […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Naval Academy chaplain’s aide discharged over abortion protest (RNS) An assistant to the Roman Catholic chaplain at the U.S. Naval Academy has been discharged from the Navy after he refused to wear his uniform in protest of federal abortion law. William J. Downes, a former petty officer, said he was […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Episcopal Church recovers most of embezzled funds (RNS) The Episcopal Church in the United States has closed the book on the Ellen Cooke scandal, announcing all but about $100,000 has been recovered from the $2.2 million embezzled by its former treasurer. The total loss to the church was $422,094, including […]
NEWS FEATURE: Ditka and his Saints are in throes of religious awakening
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1997 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Choked with emotion, Mike Ditka rested his hand over his heart and took a deep breath. “God puts people in places for a reason,” Ditka said. “Gang, I had no intention to coach again. I’m here because it’s his will.” It was May 3, less than four […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Mission impossible? Religious persecution panel faces formidab
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The mission of a new U.S. State Department committee sounds noble indeed: recommending policies to help religious believers around the world who suffer persecution because of their faith. But putting that plan into action, some religious leaders say, is fraught with huge challenges and potential pitfalls. On Nov. […]
TOP STORY: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The year in religion: A time to build up, a time to break down
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In the world of religion and ethics, 1996 was a time of mending ties and breaking them, of bridges built and churches burned and safety nets unraveling for the poor. Deep fissures _ social and sexual, ethnic and racial, political and theological _ tore at the fabric of […]
COMMENTARY: Whitewater pardons: Shall the law be king?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ Pre-election speculation about potential pardons for […]
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 […]
COMMENTARY: Bias against religion remains with us
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) Maybe it’s just me, but in these nervous and restless times, it seems […]
COMMENTARY: Future holds more reason for fear than for nostalgia
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 _ In the bargain box at Blockbuster Video, my 16-year-old son recently found”Rosemary’s Baby,”the 1968 thriller about the birth of Satan’s heir in a witches’ coven on […]
COMMENTARY: Walking the labyrinth, a pathway to God
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.) WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. _ The gym at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church here had signs calling for quiet. Inside the front door, two women talked in hushed tones. I came […]
COMMENTARY: To a nation of relentless consumers, even God is trivialized
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) Checking my messages on an Internet news group, I came across the saddest note. Writing to a group concerned about abuse of clergy, a clergyman recounted comments […]
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