Culture
NEWS FEATURE: Women finding strength at their own faith rallies
c. 1998 Religion News Service
HARTFORD, Conn. _ For the wives of Promise Keepers, it's payback time. It's their chance to leave the kids with their fathers so they can head out to their own evangelistic rallies.
But unlike the men, the women are not making any promises. They are c...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Focus on the Family increases role in homosexuality debate
(RNS) In an apparent effort to raise its visibility and increase its involvement in the volatile political debate over gay rights, Focus on the Family has hired two people who are former pract...
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NEWS FEATURE: Harvard divinity professor confounds cultural dividing lines
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The Rev. Peter J. Gomes was a veteran Harvard divinity professor but a neophyte to talk radio last year when he sat down before an open microphone in Chicago.
The hour was meandering quietly, so the radio host ``decided to juice up the cal...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Cardinal condemns proposal supporting domestic partnerships
(RNS) Roman Catholic Cardinal John O'Connor has condemned a proposal before the New York City Council that would make domestic partners legally equal to married couples. "Marriage matters sup...
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NEWS STORY: Bishop sees little hope of consensus on gay issues at Anglican meeting
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ The Anglican bishop heading the panel studying human sexuality during the Lambeth Conference says he sees little hope the communion can come to a consensus on the volatile question of the role of gays and lesbians in church and soc...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops reject easing church rules on active homosexuals
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ By an overwhelming majority, bishops of the Anglican Communion voted Wednesday (Aug. 5) to affirm church teaching that homosexual activity is incompatible with church teaching and refused to endorse the blessing of same-sex unions...
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NEWS STORY: Lambeth Conference opens with demonstration of Anglican diversity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Anglican bishops from around the world Sunday (July 19) opened the 13th Lambeth Conference _ the once-a-decade meeting of the communion's prelates _ with a dramatic liturgical demonstration of how un-English, indeed, how un-Anglo-S...
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NEWS FEATURE: Mapping the millennial fervor
c. 1998 Religion News Service
BROOKLINE, Mass. _ If Richard Landes believed the world will end in the year 2000, he would be doing a lot of work for nothing.
Landes, a medieval historian at Boston University is also the director of the Center for Millennial Studies (CMS), which is...
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NEWS STORY: With ancient ritual, prayers and pleas for a river’s healing
c. 1998 Religion News Service
BEACON, N.Y. _ With prayers, dancing, and singing, culminating in the beating of willow branches on the river banks, Jewish worshippers gathered at the Hudson River to ask divine protection for the endangered river and demand that one of the manufacture...
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NEWS FEATURE: Interest in Jewish culture growing in Catholic Italy
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ANCONA, Italy _ Michael Alpert of the American klezmer group Brave Old World mixed Italian with Yiddish this summer as he sang to hundreds in the open-air courtyard of a 17th-century fortress on the Adriatic Sea.
It was the final night of Ancona's thi...
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