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TOP STORY: LONELINESS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERALS: In San Diego, it’s not easy being a religious lib
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN DIEGO _ The surf and sun in this seaside city have not been enough to lift the spirits of the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell. For Campbell and other religious liberals, San Diego during the week of the Republican National Convention has been, she said, a...
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COMMENTARY: A chance for common sense to cool America’s gambling fever
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert F. Drinan is a Jesuit priest, former member of Congress and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center).
(WASHINGTON) For more than a century, gambling was banned throughout the United States. But today, there are only two states _ U...
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FEATURE STORY: HE-MAN DEVOTIONS: Is Jesus taking over the men’s movement?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(PORTLAND, Ore.) A shadow has fallen over the secular men's movement, and it looks a lot like a cross.
At the end of July, Robert Bly, grandfather of the drum-beating, get-in-touch with your ``wild man'' branch of the men's movement, spoke here at a n...
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BODY & SOUL: Winning isn’t necessarily good for the soul
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) Athletic excellence never fails to inspire...
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COMMENTARY: A memory of an emperor, a great rabbi and a woman seeking wisdom
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) With all the uproar on...
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NEWS STORY: ABORTION POLITICS: Conscience wars with pragmatism in South Africa abortion vote
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Under this nation's current abortion law, critics here say, poor women rarely manage to terminate a pregnancy legally and safely. But for affluent women it's not a problem. They simply board a plane bound for Europe to obtai...
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COMMENTARY: Living in a material world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(UNDATED) The two stories ran 13 pages apart in the Sunday New York Times.
The first, just four pages into the first section, told the heartbreaking s...
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BODY & SOUL: Gambling is a poor bet for satisfying the soul
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) As his mother lay dying, Alex Walters' fath...
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COMMENTARY: Honoring Calvin Klein
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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TOP STORY: ANNULLING A CATHOLIC MARRIAGE: Catholic Church is changing its attitudes on annulment
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) After his divorce and before he remarried in the Roman Catholic Church, Joseph DeCastra of Hoover, Ala., applied for an annulment and got it in less than a year.
His was one of more than 59,000 U.S. annulments and 76,829 worldwide in 1992 _ a...
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