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NEWS STORY: Orthodox Jews celebrate end of Talmud study cycle
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ At the rate of one double-sided page per day, it takes 2,711 consecutive days _ nearly seven and a half years _ to complete a study of the Talmud, the authoritative body of traditional Jewish law and other rabbinic writings.
To complete the...
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COMMENTARY: Saying prayers in school won’t make kids saints
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Gene Owens is political editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Register).
UNDATED _ When school days opened with the Lord's Prayer, ``Jesus Loves Me'' and a reading from ``The Upper Room,'' kids nevertheless cheated on exams, smoked in the bathrooms, cussed on...
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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 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 FEATURE: Exhibit opens window on medieval prayer and piety
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BALTIMORE _ People have always prayed, but each human era brings its own distinct art and style to the practice.
A compelling exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery _"Images of Devotion: Personal Piety in Medieval Manuscripts and Ivories,"which closes Oct...
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Excerpts from Daily Word magazine
c. 1997 Religion News Service
On Freedom: Day 208
I am a free and whole person.
I am free from anything that would hold me back from expressing the light and love of God within me! I am free with the freedom of the spirit. Thank You, God!
Life-affirming statements and uplift...
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NEWS FEATURE: Little magazine that inspired millions becomes a book
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Richard Block, co-founder of H&R Block, swears by it. So do actors Michael York, Doris Day and Robert Stack. Fannie Flagg, author of"Fried Green Tomatoes,"is such a fan that she had one of her characters reading it in her book.
It's Daily Wo...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Vatican official calls Buddhism"erotic spirituality" (RNS) The chief custodian of Roman Catholic doctrine has ridiculed the rising appeal of Buddhist practices among Christians, saying the church must do all it can to combat the challenge.
Cardinal...
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COMMENTARY: Letter to a mother who lost her son to cancer
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ A woman lost a son to cancer. Now she asks questions.
Why did he die when others live? W...
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