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NEWS FEATURE: Author takes compassionate look at Bible’s `bad girls’
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Bad girls, talking about the sad girls, sad girls, talking about bad girls, yeah ... of the Bible.
With no apologies to Donna Summer (and a bow to her own history with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll), Christian comedian Liz Curtis Higgs examines...
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NEWS FEATURE: Museum show offers another dimension to Kevorkian
c. 1999 Religion News Service
WATERTOWN, Mass. _ A horrified man clings to life with frayed fingers as the abyss of death yawns below. Santa Claus, descending a chimney, plants his boot on the Christ child. A decapitated man devours himself as the Roman god of war Mars looks on appr...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artists explore African origins, connections in African-American religion
c. 1999 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Meg Henson Scales stepped up to the podium with her"hand-held visual object,"her personal symbol of the merging of African-American art and spirituality."I realize that offering a prayer for someone is one of the nicest things that one can...
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NEWS FEATURE: Vatican completes 20-year restoration of the Sistine Chapel
c. 1999 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ With the restoration of frescoes by Botticelli and other important Italian painters of the 15th century, the Vatican has completed a 20-year project to return the Sistine Chapel to its Renaissance splendor.
The 12 brilliantly colored pa...
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NEWS FEATURE: Kirk Franklin Lifts Hearts and Raises Eyebrows
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Somebody up there seems to like Kirk Franklin. Not everyone down here does, though.
The controversial gospel singer's latest release, ``The Nu Nation Project,'' has sold 1.3 million copies since it came out in September. Franklin recently re...
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NEWS FEATURE: Hollywood biographer turns to biggest celebrity of all _ Jesus
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In biblical terms, the number 40 is full of significance.
The flood lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Jesus was tempted for 40 days. And now Hollywood biographer Donald Spoto has writte...
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NEWS FEATURE: Using the unusual and unorthodox to reach the unchurched
c. 1999 Religion News Service
MOBILE, Ala. _ There are Christians, it seems, who fear the church isn't relevant anymore. So irrelevant, in fact, that one Baldwin County (Ala.) congregation is airing a series of television ads hoping people will think about God and eternity _ and the...
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NEWS STORY: Networks get religion during TV’s `sweeps’
c. 1999 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ May is a television ratings"sweeps"month and the networks yet again have found religion in an effort to boost their audiences. NBC started it off with its popular May 2-3 broadcast of the biblical disaster epic"Noah's Ark,"while CBS airs i...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artist uses images of matzah to feed Jewish history
c. 1999 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Bonnie Voland's daughter, Hayley, seems as curious as other seven-year-olds. And perceptive, too.
While touring the Skirball Cultural Center, Hayley noticed the constant, subtle presence of red in the large, acrylic-on-canvas, three-pane...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artist hopes melting ice sculpture presages Israeli-Palestinian thaw
c. 1999 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ As darkness settled over the ancient walls of Jerusalem's old city, the wall of ice came aglow, first in white and then in a montage of bright, candy-cane colors _ pink, green, orange and blue."Which do you like better,"glass artist Dale Chi...
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