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NEWS STORY: DISCIPLINE VERSUS CONSCIENCE: South Africa abortion law on fast track to passage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Passage of a liberal abortion bill gained strength this week as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) instructed its members Thursday (Oct. 17) to vote in favor of the bill rather than allow an open vote, the ANC announ...
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NEWS FEATURE: FAITH AND MEDICINE: True healing, doctors say, involves more than mere medical skill
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya stood in the George Washington Medical Center auditorium and told a group of medical students the story of a 9-year-old patient with a brain tumor that usually kills within a year.
The case was not only a medical...
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COMMENTARY: It’s morality, stupid
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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BODY & SOUL: Picture the cosmos, teeming with life
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) Science, for many of us, has been strictly...
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COMMENTARY: The search for intelligent life continues _ on Mars and on Earth
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(...
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TOP STORY: MISSION TO MARS: How will earthlings talk to aliens about God?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When people talk about a mission to Mars, they probably don't have Father Peregrine in mind.
In Ray Bradbury's"Martian Chronicles,"a popular science fiction series from the 1940s and `50s, Peregrine leads a group of earnest Episcopalian miss...
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BODY & SOUL: The multiple mysteries of the ever-evolving self
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) With elegant simplicity, William Shakespear...
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TOP STORY: LONELINESS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERALS: In San Diego, it’s not easy being a religious lib
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN DIEGO _ The surf and sun in this seaside city have not been enough to lift the spirits of the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell. For Campbell and other religious liberals, San Diego during the week of the Republican National Convention has been, she said, a...
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COMMENTARY: A memory of an emperor, a great rabbi and a woman seeking wisdom
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Eli Hecht is vice president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and has been involved in counseling and outreach programs for more than 25 years.)
(UNDATED) With all the uproar on...
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NEWS STORY: ABORTION POLITICS: Conscience wars with pragmatism in South Africa abortion vote
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Under this nation's current abortion law, critics here say, poor women rarely manage to terminate a pregnancy legally and safely. But for affluent women it's not a problem. They simply board a plane bound for Europe to obtai...
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