Faith
NEWS STORY: Liberal group gives `award’ to conservative Istook
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ People for the American Way, a liberal civil liberties group that does ideological battle with the religious right, has given Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., its first"Equine Posterior Achievement Award." The bronze award, designed by famed a...
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NEWS FEATURE: Divinity school unveils groundbreaking high-tech learning center
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Last semester, the Rev. James Brown of Jacksonville, N.C., was on the road each week for 12 hours, traveling to and from Howard University School of Divinity.
But this semester, the doctoral student and full-time pastor can sit in his chu...
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NEWS STORY: Griswold installed as new Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ In a ceremony marked by pageantry, praise and prayer, Bishop Frank Griswold III was installed Saturday (Jan 10) to a nine-year term as the 25th Presiding Bishop of the faction-riven 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church.
During the pomp-fil...
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NEWS STORY: Griswold: `I’m going to become a center of controversy’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As Bishop Frank T. Griswold III made the transition from leader of the Episcopal Church in Chicago to presiding bishop of the 2.5 million-member national church, he sought refuge in a prayer retreat, knowing he would soon be surrounded by t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Pressure mounting on dwindling Catholic priesthood
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WARREN, Ohio _ The Rev. Thomas Spisak had already plunged a kitchen knife through his chest and was a fraction of an inch from death when he reassured church workers checking on him on a recent Saturday afternoon that he was OK.
He was feeling a littl...
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NEWS FEATURE: Union leaders, workers plan Labor Day pulpit blitz
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ This Labor Day weekend, David Klein will have more on his mind than a backyard barbecue. Klein, a stagehand at a Chicago opera company, is cooking up a sermon he plans to preach in a local church Sunday (Sept. 6).
Klein is among the hundreds...
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NEWS STORY: Ministries, churches pledge aid to Promise Keepers
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Prominent evangelical ministries such as Campus Crusade for Christ as well as more than 1,000 churches nationwide are pledging to help support Promise Keepers as the men's organization faces a financial crisis.
Bill Bright, founder and presi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Religious investor coalition won't endorse sweatshop agreement
(RNS) The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an umbrella organization of religious agencies that hold stocks, has announced it will endorse a White House brokered agreement b...
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NEWS FEATURE: High-tech techniques fuel new prayer movement
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Before the Southern Baptists arrived in Salt Lake City for their annual convention earlier this summer, they had each Salt Lake Valley resident in their prayers.
Literally. Name by name.
Thanks to a blend of high technology, telephone list...
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NEWS PROFILE: Episcopal Church’s new presiding bishop faces daunting bridge-building task
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As Bishop Frank T. Griswold III prepares to take his seat as head of the Episcopal Church, he is faced with daunting bridge-building and rebuilding tasks _ rebuilding his church's damaged relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Am...
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