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NEWS FEATURE: Sudden Discovery of Jewish Roots Can Be Disorienting
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When revelations about the religious background of Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright surfaced, many people suspected she had known all along of her Jewish roots. A woman of Albright's intellect, they surmised, must have questioned her p...
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COMMENTARY: NOW hates Promise Keepers because NOW doesn’t keep its promises
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.)
UNDATED _ Warning: A ``stealth political group'' is prepared to descend on Washington.
That's what the president of the National Organization for Women calls the Christian me...
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COMMENTARY: In Hollywood, religion is a pacifier, salvation an entitlement
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Bob Campbell is the film critic for the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger.)
UNDATED _ An astronaut seeking links to eternity. The Dalai Lama, twice over. A foul-mouthed Virgin Mary. A preacher claiming sanctuary in heaven from his crimes on Earth.
These ar...
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NEWS FEATURE: Indians, pagans, anthropologists tussle over 9,200-year-old bones
c. 1997 Religion News Service
KENNEWICK, Wash. _ A battle is raging here on the banks of the Columbia River over the right to venerate, study, or bury forever, a 9,200-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man.
The combatants are Native American religionists, who claim the bones...
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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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