Faith
NEWS SIDEBAR: The many ways to take a break at work
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Experts recommend an array of techniques to help employees"entrain"their over-stressed nerves to a rhythmic pace more conducive to peace of mind:
_ Stephan Rechtschaffen says it is through practicing"mindfulness"during the little pauses in e...
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COMMENTARY: Turning off TV talk, tuning into prayer
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Riding my exercise bicycle each morning is physically rewarding, but incredibly boring. For years, I watched the morning programs on television t...
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COMMENTARY: It’s time to retire the term `Judeo-Christian’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ It's time to retire one of our most popular verbal icons:"Judeo-Christian tradition." I say this with sadness, because until recently I...
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COMMENTARY: A Jewish perspective on Good Friday sermons
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED_ I'm probably one of the few Jews who has attended Good Friday services each of the last 15 years.
I follow the same drill every year: A...
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NEWS STORY: Patriarch ends round of political pomp, mingles with the faithful
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BALTIMORE _ Last summer, 20-year-old Arieta Roros returned to her native village on the Greek island of Chios for a family wedding. As it happened, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the island while she was there.
But family obligations cam...
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NEWS FEATURE: It’s decision time for the Episcopal Church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Episcopalians, those Christians who have historically tried to span the structural and theological gulf between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, have come to a moment in their life as a church where they face some hard decisions about thei...
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TALKING WITH ... A conversation with Willow Creek’s Bill Hybels
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Bill Hybels, 45, is the senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, the megachurch in South Barrington, Ill., that draws more than 16,000 people to its services each week. Hybels, author of the new book"The God You're Looking For"(Thomas N...
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NEWS FEATURE: Retreats _ creating spiritual oases for women
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ All summer long, self-help author Jennifer Louden has been the expert-du-jour on the daytime TV talk-show circuit, explaining why women periodically need to withdraw from the world, the company of men and the demands of their children to seek...
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NEWS STORY: New Jersey Episcopal bishop’s resignation sought
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A top body in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, a diocese rocked by allegations ranging from sexual abuse to malfeasance, is calling for the resignation of its controversial prelate, Bishop Joe Morris Doss.
But a defiant Doss has rejected...
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NEWS FEATURE: Movement to declare Mary"co-redemptrix"stirs ecumenical concerns
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A lay-led, worldwide movement urging Pope John Paul II to declare Mary, the mother of Jesus,"co-redemptrix"with a special role in the Roman Catholic understanding of salvation is gaining steam within the church and creating concern _ and in so...
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