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NEWS FEATURE: REVIEW: Recordings offer many sides of spiritual music
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-If you're looking for music with a distinctly spiritual flavor, here's a sampling of CDs from Catholic, Orthodox and American-communal Christian traditions as well as others that stir the brain cells and alternately soothe and jangle the sensibili...
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COMMENTARY: Being a father is good for a man
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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COMMENTARY: Being a father is good for a man
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: ELECTIONS ‘96: Foes and advocates of abortion rights differ on Dole move
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In the end, Sen. Bob Dole pleased almost no one.
Dole Thursday (June 6) reaffirmed his loyalty to the GOP platform, which calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. But the Republican presidential hopeful also demanded t...
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TOP STORY: ELECTIONS ‘96: Foes and advocates of abortion rights differ on Dole move
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In the end, Sen. Bob Dole pleased almost no one.
Dole Thursday (June 6) reaffirmed his loyalty to the GOP platform, which calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion. But the Republican presidential hopeful also demanded t...
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NEWS FEATURE: “City of Joy"priest continues quiet work among the poor
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CALCUTTA, India (RNS)-In his classic 1985 work,"City of Joy,"author Dominique Lapierre profiled Polish priest Stephan Kovalski, who set out to live among the poorest of Calcutta's poor.
But Kovalski's real identity is the Rev. Francis Laborde, who, mo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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COMMENTARY: When you wish upon a store
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-A charismatic cult is on the rise, threatening the moral integrity of America. I speak of the Cult of Disney.
Do not misunderstand me. I'm no latte...
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Hare Krishna: A modern offshoot of an ancient movement
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The Hare Krishna sect is a modern offshoot of a 16th-century Hindu devotional movement. The sect traces its theology to the Bhagavad-gita, a 5,000-year-old Sanskrit text, and worships the Hindu deity Lord Krishna as the"supreme personality of the...
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