Culture
TOP STORY: MEMOIR: At work in the `bookfields’ of the Lord
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I still enjoy the reaction I get when I tell people I once sold Bibles. Most folks give a quick squint of skepticism and an uneasy grin as they replay in their minds Ryan O'Neal and little Tatum flim-flamming their way across America in the mo...
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BODY & SOUL: Picture the cosmos, teeming with life
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) Science, for many of us, has been strictly...
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TOP STORY: JEWISH HIGH HOLY DAYS: Away from home for the High Holy Days
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When a research project kept Washington University junior Deborah Schnitzer at school in St. Louis on the Jewish new year, she and her apartment-mates welcomed 25 guests to an after-services potluck brunch.
To keep from feeling homesick, the...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Blockbuster Music forms partnership to promote Christian music
(RNS) Blockbuster Music has formed a partnership with McSpadden-Smith Music, a Nashville-based entertainment company, to promote contemporary Christian music in Blockbuster's stores nati...
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MEDIA STORY: HOLLYWOOD AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: A cinematic battle between the reprehensible and the
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's been a thrilling, chilling blockbuster movie season this summer, as films like ``Twister,'' ``The Rock,'' and ``Independence Day'' played to packed theaters and toyed with Americans' fears about attacks from the violence of nature, well-a...
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COMMENTARY: A word in favor of friendship _ and against gay marriage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Eli Hecht is vice president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif., and has been involved in counseling and outreach programs for more than 25 years.)
(UNDATED) Friendships come in man...
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COMMENTARY: The search for intelligent life continues _ on Mars and on Earth
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(...
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COMMENTARY: This sports madness, too, shall pass
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) It comes as no surprise that Americans are increasingly obsessed with sports. Athletic competition has so permeated our psyches, our culture and...
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TOP STORY: MISSION TO MARS: How will earthlings talk to aliens about God?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When people talk about a mission to Mars, they probably don't have Father Peregrine in mind.
In Ray Bradbury's"Martian Chronicles,"a popular science fiction series from the 1940s and `50s, Peregrine leads a group of earnest Episcopalian miss...
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BODY & SOUL: The multiple mysteries of the ever-evolving self
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) With elegant simplicity, William Shakespear...
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