Faith
TOP STORY: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FAITH: Mainline churches seek marketing help to fill empty pews
c. 1996 Religion News Service
GRESHAM, Ore. _ It's 9 a.m. on Sunday, and the sanctuary of Gresham United Methodist Church is empty.
Row after row of pews, made in 1959 with the finest of Oregon timber, sit like sculpture in the dark. They are monuments to a bygone era when America...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Poll: Dole leads among `committed' Protestants, Clinton gains with Catholics
(RNS) Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole holds a comfortable lead over President Clinton among"highly committed"evangelical and mainline Protestants, but Clinton ha...
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TOP STORY: JESUS SEMINAR SHIFTS FOCUS: Jesus seminar changes focus, taking aim at Paul and Nicene Cr
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SANTA ROSA, Calif. _ Having completed an ambitious and controversial decade of work on the identity and sayings of"the historical Jesus,"the maverick scholars of the Jesus Seminar have changed course, with a plan to write their own version of the New Te...
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BODY & SOUL: Religious leaders abuse power, followers unwisely surrender it
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books.)
(UNDATED) There is a deep wound in the soul o...
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Where to go for help
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Here's a list of organizations that provide help to victims and perpetrators of clergy sexual abuse:
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, 936 North 34th St., Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98103; 206-634-1903. Provides educati...
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TOP STORY: SEARCHING FOR UNITY: Lutheran and Episcopal bishops thrash out unity proposal
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ At a critical moment near the end of the historic six-day joint meeting of the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Lutherans sent what amounted to a small valentine to the Episcop...
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TOP STORY: SEEKING UNITY: Lutherans, Episcopalians on the brink of an historic accord
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ Signaling a major turn in the ecumenical movement in the United States, the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) began gathering here Thursday (Oct. 3) to consider a plan to bring the d...
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For many Americans, church is alien territory
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Church attendance has suffered a five-year decline and sunk to its lowest level in two decades, according to research by the Barna Research Group of Glendale, Calif.
``From the early '80s to the early '90s, there has been a definite change,'...
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MEDICAL STORY: More grants to help doctors understand spirituality
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The National Institute for Healthcare Research awarded its second annual round of grants Tuesday (Aug. 27) to medical schools offering courses that train doctors to be aware of the connections between spirituality and clinical care.
The c...
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TOP STORY: Common ground for Buddhists and Catholics abloom with new ideas
c. 1996 Religion News Service
TRAPPIST, Ky. _ In search of common ground between the Buddhist and Catholic traditions of prayer and meditation, monks, nuns and religious scholars have come together at a monastery here in the rolling hills of rural Kentucky.
The spiritual terrain t...
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