Culture
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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COMMENTARY: Should we clone humans? _ beyond the `yuck factor’
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 development of a human embryo from a cloned cell _ as claimed by a group of South Korean scientists _ has pushed...
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COMMENTARY: The terrible burden of knowing
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 _ Are there things we should not know? In the final analysis, that may turn out to be one of the most significant ques...
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COMMENTARY: Learning to tune ourselves
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye is the author of"Zen at Work"(Crown) and abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif.)
UNDATED _ When I was very young, I had a childhood friend who was learning to play the violin. Late one autumn afternoon, when severa...
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COMMENTARY: A genuinely new millennium
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Judith Plaskow is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College and a Jewish feminist theologian. She is a regular contributor to the RNS series Voices of Women in Religion.)
UNDATED _ The news that the Roman Catholic church is offering special...
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COMMENTARY: Judgment Day for beginners
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph,"published by St. Martin Press.)
UNDATED _ Nobody, howsoever critical...
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COMMENTARY: Hollywood spirituality _ perfect for Halloween
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph, published by St. Martin Press.)
UNDATED _ Who does more damage to fai...
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COMMENTARY: At a summer place, community is worth compromise
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons.)
UNDATED _ To our family, summer is the reward for making it through the rest of the year.
It's not just that another school year has ended and the pace begins to slow. It's that we...
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