Culture
NEWS FEATURE: FAITH AND MEDICINE: True healing, doctors say, involves more than mere medical skill
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya stood in the George Washington Medical Center auditorium and told a group of medical students the story of a 9-year-old patient with a brain tumor that usually kills within a year.
The case was not only a medical...
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TOP STORY: GAY FAMILY VALUES: Gay families push for a place in the mainstream
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO _ Given the stinging rhetoric that accompanied Congress' recent approval of the Defense of Marriage Act, it's hard to imagine homosexual-rights activists having much reason for optimism.
Signed Sept. 21 by President Clinton, the new fede...
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COMMENTARY: Singing words we would never speak
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of"Turn Toward the Wind".)
(UNDATED) A few years back, when Tipper Gore and Susan Baker launched a bipartisan mother's campaign to label record albums, I watched from the sidelin...
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COMMENTARY: It’s morality, stupid
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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NEWS ANALYSIS: Abortion sidelined at Democratic convention
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ Supporters and opponents of legal abortion are pressing their conflicting cases at the Democratic National Convention, but the volatile issue _ still the most divisive in the nation's culture wars _ is creating barely a ripple among the party...
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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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