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NEWS STORY: Bishop sees little hope of consensus on gay issues at Anglican meeting
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ The Anglican bishop heading the panel studying human sexuality during the Lambeth Conference says he sees little hope the communion can come to a consensus on the volatile question of the role of gays and lesbians in church and soc...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops reject easing church rules on active homosexuals
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ By an overwhelming majority, bishops of the Anglican Communion voted Wednesday (Aug. 5) to affirm church teaching that homosexual activity is incompatible with church teaching and refused to endorse the blessing of same-sex unions...
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NEWS STORY: Lambeth Conference opens with demonstration of Anglican diversity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Anglican bishops from around the world Sunday (July 19) opened the 13th Lambeth Conference _ the once-a-decade meeting of the communion's prelates _ with a dramatic liturgical demonstration of how un-English, indeed, how un-Anglo-S...
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COMMENTARY: The Christian obsession with sex: a trivial side pursuit
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
UNDATED _ Children starve, bombs explode, single-parent families plummet into poverty, the rich get richer, and what do religious leaders talk about?
Sex.
Sex _...
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COMMENTARY: Religious Right’s gay `conversion’ ads: sour old wine, new wineskins
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(The Rev. Meg Riley directs the Washington Office for Faith in Action for the Unitarian Universalist Association and is co-chair of Equal Partners in Faith, a national, multi-faith network dedicated to promoting positive values of religion in society.)...
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COMMENTARY: Recognizing the reality of the next feminist wave
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Sharon Welch is a feminist ethicist who teaches religious and women's studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.)
UNDATED _ On a recent cover, Time magazine announced its slam-of-the-year, asking"Is Feminism Dead?"The story compared contemporary...
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COMMENTARY: For women and religion, media bias turns right
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rosemary Radford Ruether is a feminist theologian teaching at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.)
UNDATED _ Conservatives often charge that"the liberal media"is biased against them and their cause.
But when it comes to news...
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COMMENTARY: This play is over the line
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(R. Albert Mohler Jr., a noted author and speaker, is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.)
UNDATED _ The nation's ongoing process of cultural redefinition has taken another tragic turn with the opening of Terrence McN...
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COMMENTARY: A genuinely new millennium
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Judith Plaskow is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College and a Jewish feminist theologian. She is a regular contributor to the RNS series Voices of Women in Religion.)
UNDATED _ The news that the Roman Catholic church is offering special...
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COMMENTARY: Getting real about Clinton
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Carter Heyward, an Episcopal priest, is a professor of theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and the author of numerous books and articles.)
UNDATED _ Somewhere in the air between Boston and Chicago recently, as I watched a y...
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