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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman evangelizes at students' funeral
(RNS) Contemporary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman, a 1981 graduate of Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., took on the role of an evangelist and encouraged Christia...
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COMMENTARY:“What’s Going On”: New book tells it like it really is
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In my work as a prison chaplain, I have discovered the most effective crime prevention message is often delivered by those who have"been there, done that."A perfect example is a new book,"What's Going On"(Random House), by Nathan McCall.
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NEWS STORY: Steven Curtis Chapman named"artist of year"at Dove awards
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(RNS) Singer Steven Curtis Chapman and dc Talk member Toby McKeehan were the big winners Thursday (April 24) at the Gospel Music Association's 1997 Dove Awards.
Chapman won artist, male vocalist and songwriter of the year honors and received a fourt...
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NEWS FEATURE: Debate on the Bible and gays comes to middle America
c. 1997 Religion News Serive
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ As the Rev. Robin Scroggs sees it, the increasing controversy in churches over homosexuality has produced at least one positive benefit: It's got people reading the Bible."This is really an amazing situation,"said Scroggs, a Biblica...
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COMMENTARY: Real boycotts are about personal sacrifice
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 _ A word to the Southern Baptists as they gird up for a boycott of the Walt Disney Co. empir...
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COMMENTARY: The creationism vs. evolution fight comes to North Carolina
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 _ Legislators in North Carolina are proving that battles rarely end when they are fought indi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Christmas marked by prayer, protest and calls for peace
(RNS) Christmas celebrations around the world drew tens of millions of worshipers marking the birth of Jesus with a mix of prayer, protest and calls for peace.
From a Vatican balcony, Pope Jo...
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COMMENTARY: Two films shed new light on a dark era
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Sometimes movies can be a source of disappointment and dismay. But two new and highly acclaimed films with historical themes have given filmgoers...
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NEWS STORY: TV rating plan gets bad reviews from many religious groups
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Television's proposed new rating system for programming, which the major networks plan to begin using Jan. 1, generally flopped with the religious community, drawing responses that ranged from harsh condemnation to cautious concern.
The p...
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NEWS FEATURE: THE CUSTOMS OF RELIGION: Scholar casts a skeptic’s eye on religious practices
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Charles Panati can tell you why Muslims are teetotalers, Jews don't eat pork and some Christians experience a run of meatless Fridays.
``Food taboos _ of the kind that abound in Leviticus, chapter 11, and Deuteronomy, chapter 14 _ are the me...
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