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NEWS FEATURE: Should church prescribe prayer for pain relief?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Lucia Aguglia considers herself a success story. A regular regimen of aspirin complemented by a daily reading of the Bible has somehow alleviated years of chronic lower-back pain."Thank God for the therapy,"she said."And thank Dr. Zucchi....
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NEWS FEATURE: Mailer’s Jesus: A fictional gospel of nuance for this century
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Looking back on the scriptural accounts of his earthly life, the Jesus of Norman Mailer's new novel,"The Gospel According to the Son,"has the same complaint as many in our own time who have come under intense public scrutiny.
He was misquote...
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COMMENTARY: The habits of highly ineffective Christians
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of ``Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy'' (HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
UNDATED _ Well...
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FEATURE STORY: New Jewish blessings for an impersonal God
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In the ground-breaking new"Book of Blessings,"feminist poet and Hebrew translator Marcia Falk has created new metaphors for God that transcend the personal and human form in which God is normally addressed.
Gone, for example, is the traditio...
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Traditional blessings get a new sound
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Here are some comparisons of traditional Jewish blessings and those offered by poet Marcia Falk in her"Book of Blessings":
THE TRADITIONAL BLESSING UPON AWAKENING
I am grateful to You, living, enduring King, for restoring my soul to...
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NEWS STORY: Alabama governor looking to fight feds over courtroom religion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
MONTGOMERY, Ala. _ Gov. Fob James say he is ready to take on the federal government if the federal courts tell a state judge he can't keep a wooden replica of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
If the federal courts remove the replica from the cou...
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NEWS STORY: Non-Orthodox worshipers attacked at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Leaders of Israel's Conservative Jewish movement have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews after ultra-Orthodox militants attacked Conservative and Reform worshipers early Wednesday (Jun...
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NEWS FEATURE: Israeli interfaith project breaks new ground
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BAKA AL-GARBIYA, Israel _ The chant of the"dhikr,"the Sufi Muslim recitation of the 99 names for God, resounded inside the mosque. But here and there a word of Hebrew blended into the holy din. Spaced among the Muslim men chanting their devotions in Ara...
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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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