Culture
NEWS FEATURE: Artwork’s witness: You can burn buildings, but not the church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BALTIMORE _ When the news of the spate of church burnings entered the national consciousness last year, there were many responses: churches raised money, corporations gave building materials and people young and old volunteered to aid rebuilding efforts...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian trucker put gospel message on the road
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ATMORE, Ala. _ When employees at Robby Jaye's trucking and excavating business get to work in the mornings they assemble in the front office and turn off the telephones. But they're not mapping out a strategy or planning to increase business.
They're...
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NEWS STORY: Cardinal Mahony urges Catholics to find `common ground’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has given a strong endorsement to the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin's Common Ground project, telling 10,000 Catholics they must work to end divisions."One of his (Bernardin) conce...
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NEWS FEATURE: American Jews’ roots preserved at new Yiddish book center
c. 1997 Religion News Service
AMHERST, Mass. _ In the middle of a rolling apple orchard here sits an odd-shaped wooden building seemingly better suited for Eastern Europe's Carpathian Mountains than for a college town of 30,000 in the foothills of the Berkshires.
It is the new hom...
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NEWS STORY: St. Meinrad College closing, ending legacy of educating priests-to-be
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) _ For 140 years, the Benedictine monks of St. Meinrad Archabbey have been training men for the priesthood in the rolling hills of southern Indiana outside of Louisville. But part of that legacy _ and a piece of Catholic culture _ will end a ye...
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COMMENTARY: Seeing _ and hearing _ the right way to play the `race card’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. _ Mineral Springs Baptist Church sits on a slight rise. Its red-brick, soaring c...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops reject Louisiana’s `covenant marriage’ law
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Louisiana's Roman Catholic bishops have decided to withhold their support from the state's widely touted covenant marriage law, dealing the conservative effort to strengthen civil matrimony and discourage divorce a possibly fatal blow.
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NEWS FEATURE: Debating capitalism’s nature _ greed or creativity?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ Here's a thought for corporate boards from Rabbi Michael Lerner, publisher of Tikkun magazine and progressive critic of American business:
What if every business were required to reincorporate itself every 20 years, and to stay alive had...
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Jesus on film: a partial chronology
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Following is a partial list of some of the more important or popular films about the life and times of Jesus.
"Intolerance"(1916), with Howard Gaye as Jesus; directed by D.W. Griffith. Landmark epic that interweaves four stories _ including...
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COMMENTARY: Whatever happened to conscience?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ Whatever happened to conscience?
We learned to numb it.
And what happens to people who...
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