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Ohio’s Piece of `Gospel of Judas’ Puzzle Unveiled to World
c. 2006 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) They are tiny brown pieces of papyrus with torn edges _ smaller than a playing card, almost woodlike in their appearance _ with lettering most people wouldn't recognize.
Some of these pieces are being revealed via television and Web images....
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Ukrainian Easter Egg Evolved Over Time
c. 2006 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ Forget the chicken. This time of year, the conundrum of the egg is enough to leave humans and fowls scratching their heads: What came first, the Easter or the Ukrainian Easter egg?
This city's Ukrainian Museum-Archives has cracked the answ...
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Dominican Sisters Joyfully Preach Through Art
c. 2006 Religion News Service
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ She grew up at the foot of the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, photographing friends and flowers with a Brownie camera.
``I was very close to the earth, and I loved nature,'' recalls Sister Orlanda Leyba, a photographer and Domin...
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British Muslims Seek Legal Remedy to Ban Images of Prophet Muhammad
c. 2006 Religion News Service
LONDON _ Hundreds of Islamic religious leaders in emergency talks Wednesday (Feb. 8) called for changes in the law to stop ``insulting'' caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which already have been printed in continental Europe, from being published in...
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Worried over “Peanuts”
Quote of the Day: "Charlie Brown Christmas" Producer Lee Mendelson
"We told Schulz, `Look, you can't read from the Bible on network television.'"
-Lee Mendelson, executive producer of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," about initial fretting over "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz's insistenc...
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COMMENTARY: A Christian Musician Battles an Addiction to Pornography
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) If the statistics are right, the pornography industry brings in more money than the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises. Money from U.S. porn also exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS and NB...
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Faith or family?; Steven Curtis Chapman promotes adoption
In Thursday's RNS report, Adelle M. Banks and Jason Kane look at another issue in the current debate about the religious significance of Christmas: When Christmas and Sunday occur on the same day-which last occurred in 1994-what's a church to do? This year's December dilemma has promp...
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COMMENTARY: Thank God for Your Healthy Objection to `Performance Art’
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's time to thank God for being healthy.
No, I don't mean just being physically healthy, although that is a great blessing that is not federally funded or something that we can claim as a right. I am referring to what we may term personal h...
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Evangelicals embrace mystery; Spain’s Sagrada Familia; and the “painter of light’s
G. Jeffrey MacDonald writes in Thursday's RNS report about evangelicals' greater acceptance of mystery in the wake of recent natural disasters: As a Baptist preacher in Waco, Texas, Randall O'Brien knows the Bible says disasters can be signs of God's judgment. But he's not preaching a...
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Christian `Painter of Light’ Discusses How He Does it Without a Computer
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Thomas Kinkade laughs at people who think he doesn't paint much anymore, or who believe he doesn't do his own work.
``I love this mythology that I have a huge studio with all these artists hidden away, doing my work for me,'' Kinkade said du...
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