Ethics
COMMENTARY: Give, and it will be given unto you
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service and author of"Turn Toward the Wind.")
UNDATED _ What exactly motivates someone to donate money to a charity? Is it guilt, knowledge, empathy, or sympathy?
Fund-raisers have debated this quest...
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COMMENTARY: Did the members of Heaven’ Gate make it to heaven?
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.)
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Religious leaders urge Congress to oppose physician-assisted suicide
(RNS) Religious leaders from across the theological spectrum Thursday (March 6) urged Congress to take steps to prevent the spread of physician-assisted suicide. "There are alterna...
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COMMENTARY: The spiritual life: It’s not about winning
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, a Zen meditation center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of the new book"Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher's 30-Year Journey in Corporate America (Crown).)
UNDATED _ I started Zen practice 30 years ago, not fully understa...
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NEWS STORY: Supreme Court assisted-suicide ruling hailed by religious groups
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Just one day after delivering what many in the religious community consider a devastating blow to religious freedom, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, Thursday (June 26) gave those same groups a major victory by upholding state la...
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COMMENTARY: The abortion debate: people can change
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of"Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy"(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
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COMMENTARY: Revenge: An off-limits indulgence for Christians
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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COMMENTARY: Getting rid of the women
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Archbishop Tutu's cancerous prostate removed
(RNS) Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, underwent surgery this week in South Africa to have part of a cancerous prostate gland removed.
In a statement issu...
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NEWS FEATURE: Suicide prevention crusader now fights for right to die
c. 1997 Religion News Service
SAN MATEO, Calif. _ For more than three decades, Charlotte Ross devoted her life to saving lives, first as executive director of a leading suicide-prevention facility, and later as head of the Youth Suicide National Center in Washington, D.C.
So some...
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