Faith
COMMENTARY: What if it were me behind bars?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ A recent New York Times story breathes new life into one of my hidden fears...
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COMMENTARY:“And when I was in prison, you visited me”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ A few days ago, a small handful of African-Americans from a church in High...
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COMMENTARY: A Muslim view of Judge Moore’s courtroom
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Salam Al-Maryati is director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Ambereen Khan is director of the council's Washington office)
UNDATED _ This week, 2 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world embarked on a pilgrimage _ the Hajj _ to Mecca to...
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COMMENTARY: Women rabbis infuse new spirituality into Judaism
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ It has been 25 years since Sally Priesand broke the gender barrier by becoming the first woman rabbi. Historically, only men could become rabbis,...
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COMMENTARY: Needed: A meaningful debate about God
c. 1997 religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee).
UNDATED _ A new organization,"The Committee for the Defense of a Responsible God,"needs to be established as soon as possible to preserve God's integrity....
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COMMENTARY: Intramural squabbles among Jews are as old as Moses
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Recently, a small group of Orthodox rabbis in the United States asserted that they alone are the true representatives of the Jewish reli...
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NEWS FEATURE: Religions face communications `earthquake’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Trappist monks selling caramels on the Internet. A chapel flashing huge, peaceful scenes of waterfalls in the sanctuary to calm and welcome Christian worshippers. Solitary browsers finding a place to convert to Hinduism in cyberspace.
``Ever...
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NEWS FEATURE: Warrior Nun comic series stirs debate
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Dark figures threaten her from behind desert rocks. Blam Blam. Tweeeeeng. She shoots, and bullets ricochet over the goons' heads as they flee. Corrupt bureaucrats have engineered the death of her leader. She draws her sword _ woosh _ and a sev...
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NEWS FEATURE: With St. Patrick, myth mingles with history
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ An old music hall song says he was the gentleman who drove the frogs and snakes from Ireland. And that's still the image most Americans have of St. Patrick _ the shamrock-wielding toad-chaser who somehow got mixed up with green beer and leprec...
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NEWS STORY: Lack of support forcing women clergy out of Methodist parish ministry
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BOSTON _"Systemic issues"within the United Methodist Church, including lack of support from the church's hierarchy, are responsible for clergywomen leaving local parishes at a 10 percent higher rate than their male counterparts leave, a new study conclu...
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