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Tammy Faye Messner, Ex-Wife of Fallen Televangelist, Dies at 65
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Tammy Faye Messner, the ex-wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker whose heavy makeup and emotive personality became prominent features on the face of their televised Christian ministry, died Friday (July 20) at her home near Kansas City, Mo....
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Exhibit Displays Sallman’s Iconic Images of Christ
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Late one evening in 1924, Warner Sallman, a commercial artist, was working on deadline on a new magazine cover. He went to bed but was restless. When an image appeared in his mind's eye sometime after 2 a.m., he got up and drew what he saw.
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The Museum of Modern Muslim Art
Artists Blend American, Muslim Identities on Canvas
RNS' Menachem Wecker looks at a new generation of Muslim-American artists, with their "blend of sacred and secular symbolism," in this week's full text article, linked above.
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Muslim-American artists are mixing traditional Isla...
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Artists Blend American, Muslim Identities on Canvas
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When the Prophet Muhammad saw the pillow his young wife, Aisha, had decorated for him with pictures of animals, he rebuked her: ``Don't you know that angels do not enter a house wherein there are pictures; and whoever makes a picture will be p...
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COMMENTARY: My Name is Cathleen, and I’m a Celebaholic
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I don't recall the first time I indulged in my guilty pleasure _ the dirty little secret I am about to confess. What I do remember is that the first hit was like crack (or so I'm told), and I've been addicted ever since.
Admitting one has a...
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COMMENTARY: Just Say No to Celebrity Culture
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In just a month, the celebrity landscape has shifted dramatically.
Paris Hilton went to jail, got an early release for psychological reasons and then one day later was sent back to jail.
After a year of ratings-raising irrational rants on...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2007 Religion News Service
Religion Important, but So Is Nation, Europe's Muslims Say
(RNS) Muslims in three major European cities were just as likely as non-Muslims to identify strongly with the country in which they live and sometimes even more so, according to a new Gallup...
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Move Over, Oprah
Muslim Magazines Discover an Untapped Market
RNS' Omar Sacirbey profiles the emerging market for Muslim-focused consumer magazines in the US, in this week's full-text RNS article, linked above.
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Muslim Girl, with circulation approaching 50,000, is the latest of several new magaz...
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Muslim Magazines Discover an Untapped Market
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Holding an American flag and wearing a bright-white grin beneath her head scarf, Wardaw Chaudhary, a 16-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., radiated confidence and optimism, the perfect cover girl to grace the first issue of Muslim Girl magazine.
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Project Tries to Give Troops Option to `Girlie Magazines’
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's an effort to send more than 35,000 boxes of Christian reading material as an alternative to what one retired chaplain called ``girlie magazines'' _ and it all began with a request sent to the wrong location.
An American soldier serving...
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