Culture
NEWS STORY: Abortion foes call for more debate
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Leading figures in the anti-abortion movement have issued a statement outlining their opposition to abortion and challenging Americans to further debate on the divisive issue."The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern"appe...
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TOP STORY: JUDAISM: Jewish outreach joins the Exodus as a Passover topic this year
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-This Passover, Susan V. Gelmis-the daughter of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother who raised her as a Christian-will again host a Seder at her home in Berkeley, Calif. As always, she will make it a point to invite Jewish friends who have little...
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NEWS FEATURE: New crop of priests-to-be breaks the stereotype
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CHICAGO (RNS)-Like many college students, Juan De La Cruz and his buddies live in the balance between work and play.
Last year, their teams won the university's intramural soccer, football and softball championships. Some of them formed a band, record...
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COMMENTARY: And on the sixth day, God installed the drywall
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and regular columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune.)
(RNS)-I'm building a family room in my basement. Thus far, it's cost me three months, $5,000, a thumbnail, and every speck of my pride. I'll bet God didn't have this...
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Faith necessary to make sense of science, argues author
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-There is something of the prodigal son in Christopher B. Kaiser.
He has come home.
Kaiser has arrived in familiar, charted territory-a place where science and faith are not at odds with each other but parts of a greater truth.
And contrary t...
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COMMENTARY: Jumping the gun, so to speak, on TV violence
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-Coming s...
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COMMENTARY: What does it mean to be Catholic?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agre...
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REVIEW: Documentary restores the human dimension to Anne Frank
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Anne Frank's diary has been read by millions of schoolchildren. It has been made into a film, a Broadway play and a television special. Now, with the documentary"Anne Frank Remembered,"written, produced and directed by Jon Blair, an important char...
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COMMENTARY: A V chip? How about an E chip—for `Embarrassing?’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-With the rating system for television programs gaining momentum, even the Europeans are getting into the act.
According to Variety, the Euro...
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TOP STORY: ARTS AND RELIGION: Houses of worship, temples of dreams
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Particles of light trickle through a stained-glass window. The beam of a movie projector casts scenes of grace and grandeur onto the screen of a hushed and darkened theater. To novelist John Updike, both images resonate with ideas of the sacred: t...
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