Culture
OP STORY: SOUTH AFRICA: Lembas of South Africa stake claim to Jewish heritage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-In a wasteland in the northeast corner of South Africa called Venda and in the teeming township of Soweto outside Johannesburg is a scattering of people who claim they are a lost tribe of Israel.
They are a hard-workin...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Gay marriage measure introduced in Congress
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Four Republican members of Congress took a preemptive strike at same-sex marriage Wednesday (May 8), backing legislation that would define marriage under federal law as a"legal union between...
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COMMENTARY: Father of the bride
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Eds: Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Check RNS Online for his photo.)
(RNS)-My Mormon ancestors were polygamists, but lately I've been wondering how they could afford to get married more than once. I just fin...
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NEWS STORY: Conservative Jewish leaders condemn intermarriage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The united leadership of Judaism's Conservative movement has issued its strongest condemnation ever of interfaith marriage, urging Jewish parents and young people to recognize the threat that the growing number of Jews marrying non-Jews poses to t...
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COMMENTARY: Nirvana is here, right now
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye is abbot of the Kannon-do Zen Center in Mountain View, Calif.)
(RNS)-A student once asked Zen master Shunryu Suzuki,"What is Nirvana?"He replied,"Seeing one thing through to the end." Suzuki-roshi, as he was known, (roshi means teacher) cam...
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As Graham warns of violence, hostages taken at Focus on the Family
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Minutes after conservative Christian activist James Dobson heard evangelist Billy Graham warn of the dangers of a violent world Thursday (May 2), Dobson's own Focus on the Family ministry in Colorado Springs, Colo., itself became a targ...
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COMMENTARY: The danger of using death to solve dilemmas
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices"and is a member of the board of the National Women's Coalition for Life and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
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Vocal ensembles star at Dove Awards ceremony
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Vocal ensembles-rather than individual artists-walked away with many of the the big awards Thursday night at the Dove Awards, an annual event honoring Christian music.
The modern-rock group dc Talk was named Artist of the Year, and group member...
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COMMENTARY: Do more than cheer for urban youths
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rodolpho Carrasco, 28, is a writer in Pasadena, Calif., and a consultant to church groups nationwide on youth ministry and internet outreach. Contact him via e-mail at genxlatino(AT)aol.com.)
LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Four thousand teen-age boys-black, white...
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COMMENTARY: These strange things we call bodies
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-In light of the recent allegation that Princess Diana has dimpled thighs, and her tearful denial that any fat has invaded her body, I have a confe...
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