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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ANGAHUAN, Mexico _ Speaking in a soft singsong, the town elder recalled villagers' fear when a strange hillock spewing fire and smoke broke through the furrows of Dionisio Pulido's cornfield."People began to cry, but it was the adults crying, and then t...
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NEWS STORY: TV offers too much pseudoscience, not enough fact, scientists complain
c. 1996 Religion News Service
AMHERST, N.Y. _ A leading scientific group, frustrated by a rash of documentary-style TV shows that presented alien autopsies and humans coexisting with dinosaurs as credible, is forming a ``media integrity'' council to monitor shows and pressure TV net...
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Wagon trains on Mormon trail roll back the clock
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Clustered in a grassy field on the banks of the Mississippi River, a group of modern-day pioneers, traveling on foot, in covered wagons and on horseback, have embarked on a journey they hope will lead them to Salt Lake City.
``It'll...
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COMMENTARY: Being a father is good for a man
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: Being a father is good for a man
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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TOP STORY: ELECTIONS ‘96: Foes and advocates of abortion rights differ on Dole move
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In the end, Sen. Bob Dole pleased almost no one.
Dole Thursday (June 6) reaffirmed his loyalty to the GOP platform, which calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. But the Republican presidential hopeful also demanded t...
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TOP STORY: ELECTIONS ‘96: Foes and advocates of abortion rights differ on Dole move
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In the end, Sen. Bob Dole pleased almost no one.
Dole Thursday (June 6) reaffirmed his loyalty to the GOP platform, which calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. But the Republican presidential hopeful also demanded t...
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COMMENTARY: When you wish upon a store
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-A charismatic cult is on the rise, threatening the moral integrity of America. I speak of the Cult of Disney.
Do not misunderstand me. I'm no latte...
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TOP STORY: SOUTH AFRICA: Once backer of apartheid, South African party now espouses family values
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (RNS)-A few days after it announced it was withdrawing from the coalition government formed with the African National Congress, the National Party and its leader, F.W. de Klerk, uttered a message central to its new opposition...
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COMMENTARY: A beach bum’s guide to great literature
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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