Politics
COMMENTARY: Worshiping the American dream
c. 1996 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.)
(RNS)-Nearly 50 years ago, a book titled"The God That Failed"described how communism...
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TOP STORY: TRENDS AND RESEARCH: Do pollster’s religious beliefs affect his research?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PRINCETON, N.J. (RNS)-The Gallup Poll, known worldwide as a barometer of public opinion, helps America pick its presidents and form its policies.
Over the past four decades, however, the heir to the Gallup name has focused on a higher power as he has...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND FOOD: A gourmet Seder reveals chef’s Jewish roots
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VAIL, Colo. (RNS)-Why is this night different from all other nights? On this night we hold the Passover Seder at a posh ski resort in the Rockies.
Like devoted Jewish cooks around the world, award-winning chef Jim Cohen will be in his kitchen Thursday...
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COMMENTARY: One man works, another man begs
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-Six lane...
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Watchdog group says Texas church got political
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-A church-state watchdog group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Houston's Second Baptist Church-an influential, 22,000-member Southern Baptist congregation-for allegedly engaging in partisan political activities in v...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Mayors: Hate crimes not major part of urban crime woes
(RNS)-The U.S. Conference of Mayors said Tuesday (March 19) a survey of 172 of its member-cities showed hate crimes are not considered a major part of most cities' crime problem."Nearly half of...
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NEWS FEATURE: A controversial church and the poorest people on earth
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MAPUTO, Mozambique (RNS)-A young preacher paces the stage of the dilapidated Xenon cinema in downtown Maputo as a stereo gently plays a version of"Onward Christian Soldiers." Over the next hour the preacher urges the packed audience to give all to God....
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: Is ET having a close encounter with the Holy Land?
c. 1996 The Jerusalem Report
(RNS)-On Sunday, January 8, 1995, Herzl Ksantini was relaxing at home with a buddy in a small farming community in central Israel."It was an ordinary evening on our moshav (village),"he says,"until suddenly, at 9 p.m., the house began to shake. It was li...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Jewish groups, Clinton criticize anti-terrorism bill as too weak
(RNS)-President Clinton and a host of Jewish groups are sharply criticizing a House-passed measure aimed at countering terrorism in the United States and abroad because most of the cen...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND MONEY: What God giveth the IRS taketh away
c. 1996 Religion News Service
HARTFORD, Conn. (RNS)-Fed up with filling out tax forms? Try this: Join a religious order whose members take a vow of poverty.
Priests, nuns, monks and brothers who take vows of poverty don't pay taxes as long as they work for a church institution.
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