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Shop owner sees signs from God in a string of woe
c. 2008 Religion News Service
FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio _ Some people view their misfortunes as signs the world is out to get them.
Harvey Gannon takes them as divine encouragement to stay in business.
In December, Gannon, owner of Gannon's Religious Gifts and Card Shop, backed away fro...
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Have a Buddhist question? `Ask a Monk’ has the answer
c. 2007 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ When the Ven. Shih Ying-Fa parks his 5-foot-10 frame before the computer in his home office, he never knows who will be seeking his help.
It could be a high school student in Baton Rouge, La., who asks the difference between Theravada and Ma...
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First Ted Haggard, now Larry Craig
Mike Jones, the Denver escort whose exploits with Ted Haggard fueled the evangelical leader's fall from grace, is back.
The Idaho Statesman is reporting that Jones also knew Craig-you know, the toe-tapping Idaho Republican with the wide stance in a Minneapolis airport bathroom-in the...
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God, or at least more ministers, for Huckabee
Bible-Belt Blogger Frank Lockwood has word that a few more evangelical ministers are painting Mike Huckabee as the David character in the presidential race.
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Move over, Spiderman _ Muslim superheroes land on U.S. shores
c. 2007 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Move over, Spiderman. There's a new team of superheroes in town.
Meet Jabbar the Powerful, a Hulk-like strong man, and Noora the Light, who can create holograms. Darr the Afflicter wields powerful pain waves. One hero, The Hidden, wears a...
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Rah for Raja
Muslims Hope New Show Breaks Cultural Barriers
RNS' Omar Sacirbey looks at a new television show, "Aliens in America," which features a Pakistini Muslim exchange student living with a spiritiually adrift Wisconsin family, in this week's full text article, linked above.
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Muslims Hope New Show Breaks Cultural Barriers
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Raja Musharaff is a Pakistani Muslim exchange student coming to America this fall.
He's not coming to join a terrorist cell, open a kabob shop or become a taxi driver. On the contrary, as one of the lead roles on ``Aliens in America,'' which...
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10 Minutes With ... George Foreman
c. 2007 Beliefnet
(UNDATED) After losing a 1977 boxing match to Jimmy Young, George Foreman returned to the locker room and entered a dark place _ a place so dark he wouldn't wish it on his greatest enemy _ where only the grace of God could save him. Not long after, he gave his life...
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Artist, in Search of Inspiration, Finds it Inside
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Tres Taylor spent a long time searching for his purpose.
Along the way there were travels to Australia and the Amazon, but, finally, after riding his bike around San Diego one day, he found it.
He'd recently visited a few Southern folk artists w...
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Asian Christians Take Scriptural Themes to Art
c. 2007 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ If Nalini Jayasuriya, Sawai Chinnawong, Nyoman Darsane, He Qi and Wisnu Sasongko are not household names in the Western art world, they are still better known in the West than in their own countries.
These five contemporary Asian artists ar...
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