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NEWS STORY: Postal service unveils gospel singer stamps
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Four women gospel singers, including the renowned Mahalia Jackson, are featured in new stamps released this week by the U.S. Postal Service."The Gospel Singers stamps serve as a colorful reminder of our musical heritage,"said LeGree Daniels of...
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NEWS STORY: Postal service unveils gospel singer stamps
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Four women gospel singers, including the renowned Mahalia Jackson, are featured in new stamps released this week by the U.S. Postal Service."The Gospel Singers stamps serve as a colorful reminder of our musical heritage,"said LeGree Daniels of...
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NEWS STORY: NCAA to reconsider its rule on Sunday championship games
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ After coming just one vote short of getting a controversial new rule suspended, officials at two faith-based universities say they are pleased the National Collegiate Athletic Association must still reconsider its decision to eliminate the reg...
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NEWS STORY: New Jersey court hears knotty case over Scouts’ anti-gay rule
c. 1998 Religion News Service
TRENTON, N.J. _ The Boy Scouts' sexual mores went on trial Tuesday (Jan. 5) before the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For more than two hours in a Trenton courtroom, lawyers argued over whether the Boy Scouts can exclude homosexuals from leadership positi...
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RNS-BAPTIST-TEXT: Text of Baptist statement on the family
c. 1998 Religion News Service
SALT LAKE CITY _ Here is the text of the statement on the family, adopted June 9 as Article XVIII, of the Baptist Faith and Message, by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention:
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human...
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NEWS FEATURE: Filmmakers consult widely for animated movie on Moses
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _"Get all the advice you can, and you will succeed, without it you will fail,"says the biblical book of Proverbs.
The honchos at DreamWorks SKG, it seems, are paying close attention.
The studio has covered just about every Judeo-Christia...
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NEWS FEATURE: Movie Moses telling more of the Bible’s stories
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ He parted the Red Sea in"The Ten Commandments."He baptized Jesus in"The Greatest Story Ever Told."He painted the Sistine Chapel in"The Agony and the Ecstasy"and he bent down to give Jesus a drink of water in"Ben-Hur." But mostly, Charlton...
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NEWS FEATURE: Over coffee, Cleveland clergy react to the movie `Simon Birch’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The tiny 12-year-old boy, all the self-confident bravado of near-adolescence gone and replaced with the small voice of a child experiencing his first crisis of faith, looks up at his minister and says:"I want to know there's a reason for thi...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artist’s work is her ministry to the needy
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Middle-aged men sit scattered around the bare room on a weekday morning, their heads bowed in sleep on dining tables. One man, lost in his own world, makes periodic animal noises.
Above their heads at the St. Augustine Hunger Center is a p...
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COMMENTARY: It’s time to listen to Third World Christians
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Erich Bridges writes for the international bureau of Baptist Press, the official news agency of the Southern Baptist Convention.)
UNDATED _ Hurray for the bishops!
The Anglican bishops from Africa, Asia and Latin America, that is.
Tired of gettin...
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