Faith
NEWS FEATURE: Quest to become Orthodox rabbi puts woman on the cutting edge
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ If the topic of the 1983 Canadian Bible Contest had been Genesis instead of the Book of Numbers, Devora Shonfeld might never have aspired to become a rabbi _ an Orthodox rabbi.
When Shonfeld, a Toronto native, won the Bible contest at age...
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NEWS FEATURE: Bringing prayer to the killing sites of a city
c. 1997 Religion News Service
INDIANAPOLIS _ Even as other cities watch their crime rates fall, Indianapolis finds itself in the middle of what is likely to be its second record year of homicides. So Don Howard has little reason to believe prayer will stop the violence.
But still,...
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NEWS FEATURE: Helping Hands: coming to the aid of the elderly, disabled
c. 1997 Religion News Service
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ When Beverly Livingston needed some things repaired around her house, the single mother of two didn't turn to the Yellow Pages. Instead, she called Joyce Egedy, dispatcher for the Helping Hands Ministry at Weatherly Heights Baptist he...
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NEWS FEATURE: `We’re all varieties, but we’re still ice cream’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ A few weeks ago, Lee Cropp reluctantly agreed to attend a meeting at Northminster Presbyterian Church to hear a proposal to invigorate the dwindling north Huntsville congregation to which he belongs."When I went to that first meeting...
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NEWS STORY: WCC official has hands full leading ecumenical group
c. 1997 Religion News Service
GENEVA _ The Rev. Konrad Raiser says he has enough trouble steering his unwieldy ecumenical ship through the choppy seas of Christian doctrine toward the distant port of unity without having to worry about how the churches will unite on such question as...
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NEWS STORY: Russian Orthodox threaten to pull out of WCC
c. 1997 Religion News Service
GENEVA _ Russian Orthodox Church leaders said Tuesday (Sept. 16) that Patriarch Alexii, angered about the direction of the World Council of Churches, is likely to sever ties with the ecumenical group before the WCC's eighth general assembly in Zimbabwe...
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NEWS FEATURE: Chaplains’ school: teaching soldiers to assist the sermonizing
c. 1997 Religion News Service
COLUMBIA, S.C. _ In a few brief hours under the pines of a training field at the Army's Fort Jackson, Pfc. Matt Slyder learned some of the most violent _ and some of the most pacific _ aspects of military life.
With dabs of green, black and brown pain...
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NEWS PROFILE: Process theologian John Cobb: making retirement its own process
c. 1997 Religion News Service
CLAREMONT, Calif. _ John B. Cobb Jr. _ the world's leading apologist of process theology and arguably one of the most influential American theologians of the second half of the century _ retired from teaching seven years ago.
But typical of Cobb, he's...
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NEWS STORY: Archbishop Francis George installed as head of the archdiocese of Chicago
c. 1997 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ With a wreath of incense, prayer and song, Chicago Roman Catholics welcomed Archbishop Francis George as he was installed as their new archbishop Wednesday (May 7) in an elaborate ceremony drawing on the church's ancient traditions to celebrat...
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NEWS STORY: Portland Archbishop named Bernardin’s successor in Chicago
c. 1997 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ The Vatican, acting nearly five months after the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Tuesday (April 8) named Archbishop Francis George of Portland, Ore., as the new head of the powerful and important archdiocese of Chicago.
Francis, 60, a me...
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