Ethics
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: The sky is falling. . . or is it?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A record number of hurricanes blew across the globe in 1995.
An earthquake in Kobe, Japan, killed 6,000 and an unusually high number of severe tremors shook the world.
Massive blizzards buffeted the United States last winter, followed by r...
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NEWS FEATURE: Children of Holocaust survivors remember and weep
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BURBANK, Calif. (RNS)-Adolf Hitler's"final solution"focused not only on the physical extermination of Jews, but also on a nightmarish dream to wipe out all trace of Jewish life and culture.
At a small hotel gathering here this past weekend (May 17-18)...
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NEWS FEATURE: Janet Cooke saga puts redemption issue in ethics spotlight
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-America, as former Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke knows, has always been the land of the second chance.
Its hospitality to fresh starts springs from its immigrant heritage and its free-enterprise economic system. It comes partly, too, from...
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TOP STORY: EUTHANASIA: Despite aided suicide’s new visibility, major faiths have long opposed
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Acquitted Tuesday (May 14) of violating Michigan law against assisted suicide, Dr. Jack Kevorkian wasted no time in drawing a distinction between the religious and secular dimensions of euthanasia."What this proves is that, while this may be a sin...
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NEWS FEATURE: Timothy Leary may be planning public suicide on the Internet
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Timothy Leary may be about to kill himself-live on the Internet-and his old friend Ken Kesey, for one, says he's planning to watch.
``It will be stimulating,'' says Kesey, the author whose association with Leary goes back 30 years to his days as...
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COMMENTARY: Suddenly, the hospital room is a moral arena
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-Two recent federal court decisions on physician-assisted suicide have raised profound questions for America's religious communities, issues that many...
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COMMENTARY: Loathing Leona, but lusting for her luxury
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-I thin...
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COMMENTARY: Loathing Leona, but lusting for her luxury
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-I think...
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COMMENTARY: Lights are dimming in the city on a hill
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: Signs of spring in Sarajevo
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service and a member of the board of World Vision. She recently returned to the former Yugoslavia to see how life has changed since the Dayton Peace Accord.)
SARAJEVO (RNS)-Snow lies like a soft blank...
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