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COMMENTARY: Pathfinder, Mars and the vastness of God’s realm
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 _ Pathfinder's discovery of water on the planet Mars forces the faithful to decide: Is Mars b...
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COMMENTARY: What to make of The Citadel and other things frozen in time
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 _ In many ways The Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military school, is an embarrassment to the...
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COMMENTARY: Two hours with `Mother’: a lesson in grace and compassion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Sara Anderson Hsiao is a writer and publicist for World Vision, the Christian relief and development organization.)
UNDATED _ She must think I am someone else, I said to myself.
It was the eve of her 85th birthday, and Mother Teresa was spending tw...
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COMMENTARY: Jimmy Stewart embodied what’s best about America
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He is now a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ Perhaps President Clinton summed it up best when reflecting on the death of actor...
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COMMENTARY: Answering questions about Ramadan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Salam Al-Marayati is director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles.)
UNDATED _ As Christians and Jews complete their holiday season, we Muslims begin ours with the start Friday (Jan. 10) of Ramadan, the month during which Islam teaches...
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COMMENTARY: Learning about faith from Carl Sagan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Robert A. Seiple is President of World Vision U.S., one of the largest privately funded Christian relief and development organizations in the world. He lives outside Seattle.)
UNDATED _ Are science and faith mutually exclusive?
For three years, I w...
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COMMENTARY: Hanukkah, Christmas meaning lost in mushy mix of"the holidays”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the
American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The eight day Jewish festival of freedom, Hanukkah, begins on Tuesday night, Dec. 23. Unfortunately, in our over-heated consumer society, Hanukka...
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COMMENTARY: The kings live! Biblical David meets Elvis Presley
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Question: What do the biblical David and Elvis Presley have in common? Answer: the title"King"and a great deal more.
Both men infuriated many w...
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COMMENTARY: Beware the"biblical sanitation squad”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ One of my favorite films, Robert Altman's"Nashville,"was recently shown on VH-1, a cable TV outlet. While I've grown accustomed to the many comme...
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COMMENTARY: Learning heavenly lessons from exploring Mars
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Hecht is vice-president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and past-president of the Rabbinical Council of California. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif.)
UNDATED _ A few weeks back, the Pathfinder team at the Jet Pr...
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