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COMMENTARY: The high cost of being a Christian celebrity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service)
UNDATED _ It's lonely at the top, or so they say.
It's also lonely at the front. Just ask any member of the clergy who has stood before a congregation to encourage their spiritual developmen...
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NEWS PROFILE: Faith, family inspire popular `painter of light’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Like a modern American Renoir, Thomas Kinkade is a"painter of light"whose cozy, flower-laced cottages invite onlookers to crawl inside their warmly lit windows for a romantic evening before the radiant hearths imagined within.
Images of Kink...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Bringing religion to the `wasteland’ of TV
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Over the past 18 months, three 30-minute weekly religion news shows strode boldly onto television, famously called the"wasteland"several decades ago. The trio are serious efforts to report on the moral and ethical dimensions of society. That's...
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NEWS FEATURE: Ten years after losing empire, Swaggart keeps low profile
c. 1998 Religion News Service
BATON ROUGE, La. _ It might as well have been the Ebola virus that swept through the sprawling, once-thriving Jimmy Swaggart headquarters here 10 years ago.
A decade after Swaggart tearfully confessed to an association with a prostitute, the $144 mill...
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COMMENTARY: Hiding what we cannot face
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Kathleen O'Brien is a columnist for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.)
UNDATED _ There was a gap in the obituaries of Frank Sinatra, a cluster of years glossed over because they were of scant musical interest.
They were the years just before his deat...
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NEWS FEATURE: Heirs of Holocaust victims try to recover art they’ve never seen
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ROME _ Johanan Vitta had never laid eyes on the paintings he so fervently claims are rightfully his. At 56, he has no memories at all of his grandfather's prized collection of 19th-century Italian oil canvases.
Among them are Giovanni Fattori's"Cavalr...
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NEWS STORY: Body painting rituals invite beauty from the gods
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ This past Valentine's Day in New York's posh SoHo neighborhood, bag-toting shoppers at Zona, a home-design and gift store, browsed among country furniture while in the back crowds formed around a long, wooden table covered with velvet cloths...
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NEWS FEATURE: Network of artists seeks to bring art to church, faith to artists
c. 1998 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel, da Vinci had"The Last Supper,"and Tom Jennings has Manhattan's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and his piano, where a bit of soul and a splash of Otis Redding dance along the keys during worship services.
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NEWS FEATURE: Americans get chance to match their angel images with the masters
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Americans _ some 75 percent according to a recent poll _ believe in angels. And now, thanks to the Vatican and the Chrysler Corp., they'll be able to match their mental images of heavenly beings with the representations of some of the worl...
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NEWS FEATURE: In seeking God of the poor, author finds `fierce compassion’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
HOUSTON _ In seeking God, China Galland, Texas-born author and adventurer, traveled thousands of miles from her home in San Francisco to such diverse places as Vietnam, Brazil, and India.
She found God _ the God of the poor and voiceless, who dwells a...
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