Faith
NEWS STORY: Study could pose `wake-up’ call to black pastors
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A ground-breaking study of U.S. black churches has found that many are suffering from financial challenges and congregations in denominations that emphasize tithing tend to have some of the most generous donors.
Walter Collier, lead research...
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NEWS STORY: Protestant bodies forge new plan for greater unity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Leaders of nine of the nation's prominent mainline Protestant religious bodies have forged a proposal aimed at establishing greater church unity beginning by the year 2002.
For almost four decades, the groups have struggled to find ways to...
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NEWS STORY: Protestant bodies forge new plan for greater unity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Leaders of nine of the nation's prominent mainline Protestant religious bodies have forged a proposal aimed at establishing greater church unity beginning by the year 2002.
For almost four decades, the groups have struggled to find ways to...
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NEWS STORY: Women clergy, for first time, invited to Promise Keepers conference
c. 1998 Religion News Service
PHILADELPHIA _ Promise Keepers, an evangelical men's ministry that has generally discouraged women from attending its meetings, has intentionally opened the doors of its 1998 regional clergy conferences to women.
Although only a sprinkling of women we...
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NEWS STORY: World Council’s Raiser sees reshaped ecumenical movement in new millennium
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ The general secretary of the World Council of Churches predicts the global ecumenical movement will become less institutionalized in the next century, fostering forums with Pentecostals and Roman Catholics who have not been comfortable joinin...
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NEWS FEATURE: Women’s rallies: making room for God in new reality
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LANDOVER, Md. _ Sitting, singing and laughing with a crowd of more than 16,000 women at the US Airways Arena here, Carol Hammel said she was getting just the break she'd long awaited.
Attracted like many others to the Women of Faith conference's theme...
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NEWS FEATURES: Son finds some answers in father’s burned-out church
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The Rev. Ivan Kennedy left his father's church at age 16.
Kennedy couldn't figure out why his old man would devote his life to pastoring small churches where he would invite homeless strangers to live with them and reach into his own pocke...
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NEWS FEATURE: In Ohio, mainline meets evangelical _ musically
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Cover up the organ. Empty the choir loft. Pack away the liturgical robes. And bring on the T-shirts, sandals and electric guitars.
Some 30 years after it began in the cultural revolution of the '60s, and long after many nondenominational c...
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NEWS STORY: Jakes’ message to women growing in popularity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Bishop T.D. Jakes spins left, spins right, his arms a whirlwind of motion as his voice rises and falls, then rises a little bit higher the next time in a rapid-fire exhortation about the crosses all individuals bear in life.
The husky prea...
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COMMENTARY: Jakes’ message to women growing in popularity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Bishop T.D. Jakes spins left, spins right, his arms a whirlwind of motion as his voice rises and falls, then rises a little bit higher the next time in a rapid-fire exhortation about the crosses all individuals bear in life.
The husky prea...
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