Culture
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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COMMENTARY: Betting on Bob
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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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
All-white Southern Baptist church decides to keep biracial child in grave
(RNS)-The top social policy official of the Southern Baptist Convention has harshly criticized an all-white Southern Baptist church in Georgia whose leaders wanted to exhume t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Reform Jewish leaders increasingly concerned by interfaith marriages
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Reform Judaism-the faith's largest branch in North America with some 1.4-million members-has long been characterized by its liberal approach to interfaith marriages, accepting them as a fact of life in an open society.
Currently, about 60 percen...
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COMMENTARY: Hooray for Hollywood
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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COMMENTARY: Give me that on-line religion
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and regular columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune.)
(RNS)-I just received my copy of Christian Computing, a magazine devoted to helping Christians funnel the spirit of God through their computers.
Reading through Chr...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Christian music sales grow at faster rate than other genres
(RNS)-Gospel music sales are growing faster than sales of other major forms of popular music, according to a study released Thursday (March 21) by the Gospel Music Association.
Between 19...
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TOP STORY: MEDICINE AND ETHICS: Physicians’ classic anatomy work used victims of Nazi murders
c. 1996 The Jerusalem Report
(RNS)-One day in April 1993, Dr. Howard Israel, an oral surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, prepared for an operation by doing what he always did beforehand: Reviewing the terrain in his trusted copy of"Pernkopf's Topographi...
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TOP STORY: THE HOLOCAUST: A message of tolerance from the woman who sheltered Anne Frank
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND (RNS)-To watch Miep Gies with children is to understand why Anne Frank loved her.
Gies, who risked her life to hide the Frank family from the Nazis during World War II, told Cleveland-area junior high school students that for a long while sh...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic Church vows fight against euthanasia
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-U.S. Roman Catholic bishops will mount a campaign against assisted suicide comparable in scope and intensity to their fight against abortion, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston said Wednesday (March 20).
Law, chairman of the National Conf...
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