Articles Index

INTERFAITH

World News: Russia Considers Adding Government Panel to Regulate Religious Media

World Brief: Belgian Churches Send New Year's Greetings to the Jewish Community

U.S. News: Supreme Court Discards Cases, Including Church-State Disputes. By Larry Chesser.

U.S. News: Interfaith Coalition Backs Religious Freedom Bill for California. By Lori Eppstein.

Greenbelt News: Many Greenbelters Not Involved with Their Faith, Study Says

Greenbelt News: Greenbelt's Religious Communities Celebrate the City's Sixtieth Anniversary. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

ECUMENICAL

World News: Too Many Bibles, Good News Party Told in England. By Peter Linford.

World News: Complete Gypsy Bible Scheduled for Next Year. By Robert O'Brien.

World News: New Commission for United Kingdom's Evangelical Alliance. By Peter Linford.

ADVENTIST

U.S. News: Adventists Assert Primacy of Bible. By Jonathan Gallagher.

ANGLICAN

See also Lutheran

World News: Anglican Traditionalists in England and the U.S. Moving Towards Separate Provinces. By James Solheim.

World News: Hold-out Anglicans in Australia Vote to Admit Children to Holy Communion

Greenbelt News: St. George's Holds a Bilingual Service with a Difference. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

Greenbelt Brief: St. George's Vicar Appointed Moderator of Diocesan Council

BAPTIST

See also Ecumenical

U.S. News: Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia Endorse Boycott of Disney

BRETHREN

World Brief: Brethren Help Heifer Project Buy Cows for Poland

CATHOLIC

See also Interfaith, Eastern Christian, Jewish

World Brief: Catholic Reform Coalition Meets in Rome

U.S. News: Catholic Document Begins to Change the Lives of Homosexuals. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

U.S. Brief: Catholic Bishops in Texas Call for End to Executions

CHURCHES OF CHRIST–CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

U.S. News: Disciples' Racially Ethnic Church Leaders Advise Fund-Raising Changes

Disciples of Christ – see Churches of Christ–Christian Churches

EASTERN CHRISTIAN

Washington Feature: The "Right Way" Meets Other Ways: The Ecumenical Patriarch Begins an Interfaith Tour of the U.S. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson. For only the second time in history, the Orthodox Church's Ecumenical Patriarch is visiting the United States. His tour includes a strong outreach to other faiths – but obstacles remain.

Episcopal – see Anglican

GENERAL

U.S. Brief: Gay Churches Moderator Invited to White House Conference on Hate Crimes

HINDU

World News: Indian Hindus Seek Protection of Sacred Cows

ISLAMIC

See also Interfaith, Eastern Christian

U.S. News: Muslim Woman Testifies Before Senate Committee on Workplace Religious Freedom Act

JEWISH

See also Interfaith, Eastern Christian

World Brief: Pope Hedges on Holocaust Apology, but Addresses Issue of Anti-Semitism

World Brief: Israeli Jews Agree to Continue Negotiations Over Conversion Bill

U.S. News: Jewish Survey Sees Changing Attitudes Toward Interfaith Marriages

LUTHERAN

U.S. News: Evangelical Lutheran Bishops Urge Revised Concordat of Agreement with Episcopalians

METHODIST

World News: European Methodists Hold Drug Addiction Conference. By Shanta M. Bryant.

U.S. News: Debate Continues Over Methodist Same-Sex Ceremony in Omaha

Muslim – see Islamic

NAZARENE

World News: Nazarenes Prepare Contingency Plans for Russia

Orthodox Christian – see Eastern Christian

PAGAN

Washington Feature: A Merry Meet in D.C.: America's Pagans Gather in the Nation's Capital. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson. Photographs by John Wallin. One month after Promise Keepers assembled on the Mall, Pagans from around the nation meet in Washington as a symbol of their freedom to worship.

Blessing on Samhain at the Jefferson Memorial. By Isaac Bonewits.

How to Be a Polite Pagan

PENTECOSTAL

See also The Arts

U.S. News: Pentecostal and Charismatic Leaders Discuss Racial Reconciliation

Presbyterian – see Reformed

REFORMED

See also Lutheran

World News: Former Reformed Ecumenical Synod Moderator Opens Prayer Service for International Conference of Reformed Churches. By Darrell Todd Maurina.

U.S. News: Opponents of Presbyterian "Fidelity and Integrity" Amendment Meet. By Julian Shipp.

U.S. News: Reformed Christian Classis Votes to Seize Christ Community's Property Unless Seceding Church Negotiates with Classis. By Darrell Todd Maurina.

U.S. News: World Series Exciting, "Wahoo" Disappointing, United Church of Christ Leaders Say

Roman Catholic – see Catholic

United Church of Christ – see Reformed

Wiccan – see Pagan

THE ARTS

Museum Watch: Christ Walking Down Main Street: Stanley Spencer's Biblical Art. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

Museum Watch: Sacred Music Without the Sacred. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

Children's Books: Taking Religious Art Seriously: Buddhist Sand Mandalas and Shaker Homes. By Heather Elizabeth Peterson.

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October 1997