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  1. At a Hartford Seminary, a Military Matter

    SOMETIME this fall, Major Shareda Hosein, 42, an Army reservist and student at Hartford Seminary, will find out if the Army has accepted her application to become the first female Muslim chaplain in the history of the United States military.


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  2. Meeting at Church Not an Option For Many Members Of Catholic Group

    MOST church meetings take place in, well, a church. This is true even for a lay group like Voice of the Faithful, whose motto is, "Keep the faith, change the church." It's true, at least, in 187 of the 195 Roman Catholic dioceses in the country. In eight others, including two of Connecticut's three dioceses, the Catholic Church has banned the group from meeting on diocesan property.


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  3. Signed, Sealed And Delivered: A Letter Bag From 1943

    WHEN the First Congregational Church of Greenwich was doing some renovating in the mid-1990's, the Rev. Sally Colegrove kept her eye on all the stuff being cleared from the attics. As she looked through some of the accumulated odds and ends awaiting a trip to the parking lot Dumpster one day, she poked her hand into a crumpled white shopping bag and pulled out a scrap of paper that read: "Letters from Service Men to Mrs.


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  4. The New After-School Activity: Evangelism

    ON a recent Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Elementary, a public school in East Hampton, the public-address announcer called out groups of pre-kindergarten through thirrd-grade students who were to be dismissed for the day. Many left for the waiting school buses, but others were told to head to after-school activities: "Students riding Bus 12," said the announcer, and then, "Students attending Good News Club.


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  5. Keeping a Finger On China's Pulse

    IN the summer of 1991 Joseph Kung was in the habit of visiting his uncle, Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, each day at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stamford. The Roman Catholic diocese of Bridgeport had invited the cardinal to live in the Queen of the Clergy Retired Priest Residence at St. Joseph's when he was finally allowed to leave China in 1988 after nearly 33 years of imprisonment.


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