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COMMENTARY: When Mission Is a Matter of Perspective
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.)
(UNDATED) When my wife asks me to swing by the public library to return some books, I have to ask for direct...
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COMMENTARY: Real Questions, Real Answers
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.)
(UNDATED) Riding home from the airport Sunday, my 9-year-old son fired questions at me.
Could we go to a c...
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NEWS FEATURE: New York Singles Flock to Rabbi’s Wife for Advice, Match-Making
c. 2000 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Hundreds of single, hip professionals on Manhattan's Upper East Side set aside their skim lattes and turn off their cell phones on Tuesday nights because they are looking for more than sex in the city. It's not power yoga or a trendy guru who...
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COMMENTARY: The Forgotten Victims of Crime
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.)
(UND...
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NEWS FEATURE: Advice From the Bard _ What Would Shakespeare Say?
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) With intriguing tales of love thwarted and ancient wrongs avenged, William Shakespeare has long reigned as English literature's Renaissance scribe sans pareil. But some 400 years after the Bard's death, a California Shakespeare buff has uneart...
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NEWS STORY: Faith-based colleges failing to influence religious behavior of adult students
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Though increasingly successful in attracting adult students, faith-based colleges are less successful at influencing their religious behavior, according to a new national survey of graduates."The good news is that the nontraditional students w...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian History Comes Alive in New TV Series
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The complex history of Christianity, which was born as a small and obscure movement but has become the world's dominant faith, is explored in an upcoming TV series.
``Christianity: The Second Millennium'' does an admirable job of compressing...
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COMMENTARY: Mourning the Loss of Israel’s Intellectual Crown Jewels
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the senior interreligious adviser of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) Two giants of the human spirit died within a week of each other last month in Jerusalem. David Flusser, a scholar of the first century, and Yehuda Amichai,...
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COMMENTARY: Let the Christmas Card Rush Begin
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two sons and the author of five books.)
(UNDATED) In about a week, the first pangs of guilt will strike. They will be brought on by a Christmas card with an embossed return address, a perfect studio photo and a lov...
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COMMENTARY: Why my SAT score was wrong and other injustices of life
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and gets hives when she gets within 100 miles of Princeton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ If someone had just asked me, I could have settled the whole thing years ago.
But it finally took the U.S. Department of Educatio...
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