Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AIDS -- gays, minorities and intravenous drug users -- has unfairly limited the degree of economic assistance offered. "If this disease struck only the presidents of major corporations, the effort to evade responsibility would not have been tolerated by society," says Earl Shelp, executive director of Houston's Foundation for Interfaith Research and Ministry. Additionally, society's sense of financial obligation -- not to mention its compassion -- has been diminished by a blame-the-victim syndrome. "I think that there is a tendency to discount a situation if one feels that an infected person's condition could have been avoided," says Dr. Kathleen...
RADIO AND TELEVISION. Broadcast religion was once a mainline monopoly, but since the 1960s it has been dominated by evangelical aggressiveness. In the wake of the squalid televangelism scandals, mainliners last fall launched an interfaith cable network called VISN. It is potentially their most strategic project in many years, but so far programming has been dull and dated. Significantly, it was a secular cable company, not mainline agencies, that came up with the idea for VISN...
...spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Still, the Department of Defense next month plans to argue in favor of overturning a 1988 federal-court decision that would allow antiwar activists equal access to career days in Atlanta high schools. In a landmark case five years ago, an interfaith peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation, the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities has found little resistance to its counselors, who regularly present slide...
Though it is a solidly rooted Washington tradition, the National Prayer Breakfast does have its critics. Some Fundamentalists thought interfaith amity was stretched too far last year, when Saudi Arabia's Ambassador recited from the Qur'an. Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...
...Interfaith Hunger Appeal has agreed to cover the singing groups traveling expenses. The Krokodiloes will also be sponsored by the Harvard Club of New York, Larsen said...