Culture
COMMENTARY: Becoming the ethical conscience of the church as well as society
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Suzanne Holland is Assistant Professor of Religious and Social Ethics at The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.)
UNDATED _ With the summer's end approaching, I have hurriedly been preparing for the courses I will teach in a few weeks.
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COMMENTARY: Recognizing the reality of the next feminist wave
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Sharon Welch is a feminist ethicist who teaches religious and women's studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.)
UNDATED _ On a recent cover, Time magazine announced its slam-of-the-year, asking"Is Feminism Dead?"The story compared contemporary...
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COMMENTARY: For women and religion, media bias turns right
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rosemary Radford Ruether is a feminist theologian teaching at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.)
UNDATED _ Conservatives often charge that"the liberal media"is biased against them and their cause.
But when it comes to news...
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COMMENTARY: Mentoring makes a difference in young lives
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rodolpho Carrasco is associate director of Harambee Christian Family Center in Pasadena, Calif., a faith-based youth program. E-mail him at genxlatino(AT)aol.com.)
UNDATED _ When graduating from Stanford University a few years back, I sadly remembere...
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COMMENTARY: Bioethics becoming a dominant human rights issue
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ A recent conference on medicine and religion at Saint Leo College in Florida offered convincing evidence that bioethics is one of the dominant civil and...
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COMMENTARY: Deconstructing Seinfeld, Woody Allen
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Two of America's most famous comedians, Jerry Seinfeld and Woody Allen, have recently been in the news. After nearly 10 years on network televisi...
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COMMENTARY: A new, more realistic and gripping Anne Frank comes to Broadway
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The life and death of the Jewish teenager Anne Frank has become a well-known symbol of the Holocaust. For 25 months, between 1942 and 1944, Anne...
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COMMENTARY: Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s `lost’ causes
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Steven Spielberg's latest film,"Saving Private Ryan,"is the renowned film director's homage to the American soldiers, most of them draftees, who...
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COMMENTARY: Job: a biblical response to New Age pablum
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ New Age spirituality permeates American culture.
Its gurus fill bookstores and TV screens with their theological pablum of personal fulfillment...
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COMMENTARY: This play is over the line
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(R. Albert Mohler Jr., a noted author and speaker, is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.)
UNDATED _ The nation's ongoing process of cultural redefinition has taken another tragic turn with the opening of Terrence McN...
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