Culture
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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NEWS STORY: Vatican enters fray over late-term abortions
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The Vatican stepped into the politically charged debate over late-term abortions Friday (April 19), saying President Clinton's veto last week of a bill that would have barred the rare procedure was"shameful"and a"brutal act of aggress...
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NEWS STORY: Methodist meeting takes up agenda of conscience
c. 1996 Religion News Service
DENVER (RNS)-Delegates and visitors to a 10-day meeting of the United Methodist Church's top decision-making body held a two-hour worship service Thursday (April 18) that promoted greater openness to people of diverse backgrounds and denounced sexism an...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian music industry sounds note of disappointment
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Three years ago, leaders in the growing Christian music industry boldly predicted that gospel would follow in the bootsteps of country, emerging from the shadows to become a major pop genre.
But today, gospel still accounts for only 3 percent of...
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Environment chief sees U.S. caught between flood and the rainbow
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PHOENIX (RNS)-Contending that divergent views on the environment have the nation caught"between the flood and the rainbow,"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt urged American religious bodies to join the fray over conservation laws and stand fas...
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NEWS STORY: California court says landlords cannot refuse to rent to unmarried couples
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-In a long-awaited case pitting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against state open-housing laws, the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Tuesday (April 9) that landlords may not refuse to rent to unmarried couples on grounds of r...
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Graham takes a cue from MTV
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Evangelist Billy Graham hopes to reach his largest audience ever with a one-hour program aimed at viewers who would not normally watch religious programming."The Billy Graham World Television Series"features a message from Graham intercut with fas...
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NEWS STORY: Advocacy group says Christian Right censored arts
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Conservative religious or political groups instigated dozens of incidents last year in which paintings, movies, plays and other artistic displays were altered or kept from public view, according to People For the American Way, a liberal...
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NEWS FEATURE: More and more college students majoring in religion
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-As Khyati Joshi, 25, walks to class at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she flinches when she hears a siren."I never know when a bomb will explode,"she said.
But Joshi refuses to leave."Being in Israel gets inside you,"she said."You become involv...
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TOP STORY: TIBETAN BUDDHISM: A sea change in Tibetan Buddhism’s links to the past
c. 1996 Religion News Service
DHARAMSALA, India (RNS)-When the Dalai Lama seeks insights into the future, he consults his oracle, a medium who wears an elaborate costume and headpiece that together weigh more than 100 pounds. The use of oracles, on the face of it, would appear to sh...
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