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The lonely, lucrative journey of JZ Knight
c. 1997 Religion News Service
YELM, Wash. _ Whether she's channeling the spirit of the ancient warrior Ramtha or whether she's not, JZ Knight is a nonstop talker, given to the occasional malapropism. She is a whip-smart woman who takes a particular pride that her lack of formal educ...
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NEWS STORY: Books on Jehovah’s Witnesses mutilated at seminary libraries
c. 1997 Religion News Service
INDIANAPOLIS _ At least three seminaries in Indiana have been hit by a wave of mutilations of books dealing with the Jehovah's Witnesses, according to librarians at the schools.
Officials at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, at Anderson...
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NEWS FEATURE: Another kind of Christian school alternative
c. 1997 Religion News Service
HARRISBURG, Pa. _ No controversial library books. No skirmishes over teaching evolution vs. creationism. No chance that birth control methods might be explained in health class. No debates over prayer's place in the school day.
These arguments for for...
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NEWS FEATURE: American Jews’ roots preserved at new Yiddish book center
c. 1997 Religion News Service
AMHERST, Mass. _ In the middle of a rolling apple orchard here sits an odd-shaped wooden building seemingly better suited for Eastern Europe's Carpathian Mountains than for a college town of 30,000 in the foothills of the Berkshires.
It is the new hom...
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NEWS STORY: St. Meinrad College closing, ending legacy of educating priests-to-be
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) _ For 140 years, the Benedictine monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey have been training men for the priesthood in the rolling hills of southern Indiana outside of Louisville. But part of that legacy _ and a piece of Catholic culture _ will end a ye...
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NEWS STORY: In a reversal, biology teachers alter statement supporting evolution
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ After first refusing to do so, the National Association of Biology Teachers has dropped the words"unsupervised"and"impersonal"from its official definition of evolution.
The group's eight-person board of directors voted unanimously Saturday (...
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COMMENTARY: The creationism vs. evolution fight comes to North Carolina
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _ Legislators in North Carolina are proving that battles rarely end when they are fought indi...
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TOP STORY: MEMOIR: At work in the `bookfields’ of the Lord
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I still enjoy the reaction I get when I tell people I once sold Bibles. Most folks give a quick squint of skepticism and an uneasy grin as they replay in their minds Ryan O'Neal and little Tatum flim-flamming their way across America in the mo...
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TOP STORY: JEWISH HIGH HOLY DAYS: Away from home for the High Holy Days
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When a research project kept Washington University junior Deborah Schnitzer at school in St. Louis on the Jewish new year, she and her apartment-mates welcomed 25 guests to an after-services potluck brunch.
To keep from feeling homesick, the...
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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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