Culture
COMMENTARY: The truth shall make you odd
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ It is more than ironic, I fear, that one of the lowliest births of recorded history is commemorated this time of year with Nativity sets craft...
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TOP STORY: AFTER THE FALL: On the road from sin to redemption, Bakker discovers a new reality
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A decade ago, when the PTL television ministry was at its peak, Jim Bakker was so busy raising money he hardly had time to read the Bible.
Now, after five years in prison and two years of introspection on a rented North Carolina farm, he con...
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NEWS STORY: VATICAN DISAPPROVAL: Vatican accuses UNICEF of promoting abortion, withholds funds
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Accusing the United Nations aid program for children of advocating abortion and distributing contraceptives to Third World women, the Vatican has decided to withhold its annual contribution for UNICEF activities.
UNICEF officials denied...
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MEDITATION: OUR FELLOW PASSENGERS: The real mystery of TWA Flight 800
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy is a writer living in Chicago.)
(UNDATED) Old railroad stations, John Cheever observed, were built like cathedrals: Their vast spaces invited meditation, the sun fell through great windows on marble floors and pew-like benches.
Here...
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NEWS STORY: DISCIPLINE VERSUS CONSCIENCE: South Africa abortion law on fast track to passage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Passage of a liberal abortion bill gained strength this week as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) instructed its members Thursday (Oct. 17) to vote in favor of the bill rather than allow an open vote, the ANC announ...
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NEWS FEATURE: FAITH AND MEDICINE: True healing, doctors say, involves more than mere medical skill
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya stood in the George Washington Medical Center auditorium and told a group of medical students the story of a 9-year-old patient with a brain tumor that usually kills within a year.
The case was not only a medical...
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TOP STORY: GAY FAMILY VALUES: Gay families push for a place in the mainstream
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO _ Given the stinging rhetoric that accompanied Congress' recent approval of the Defense of Marriage Act, it's hard to imagine homosexual-rights activists having much reason for optimism.
Signed Sept. 21 by President Clinton, the new fede...
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COMMENTARY: Singing words we would never speak
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of"Turn Toward the Wind".)
(UNDATED) A few years back, when Tipper Gore and Susan Baker launched a bipartisan mother's campaign to label record albums, I watched from the sidelin...
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COMMENTARY: It’s morality, stupid
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...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Abortion sidelined at Democratic convention
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ Supporters and opponents of legal abortion are pressing their conflicting cases at the Democratic National Convention, but the volatile issue _ still the most divisive in the nation's culture wars _ is creating barely a ripple among the party...
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