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c. 1999 Religion News Service
Israeli president warns of violence at Orthodox protest
(RNS) With Orthodox leaders threatening to mobilize a half-million supporters for a weekend protest, Israel's president met Thursday (Feb. 11) with a leading rabbi in an effort he said was desi...
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NEWS FEATURE: Author urges sexual counter-revolution
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ At age 23, Wendy Shalit has burst onto the American public scene as the newest Rorschach test. Reactions to her book promoting sexual modesty range from raves to withering dismissals.
George Will, in Newsweek, turned in a rave: ``Think Katie...
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NEWS FEATURE: Evangelists bring promise of salvation with Moscow truck-stop ministry
c. 1999 Religion News Service
MOSCOW _ If there were a special place in hell for wicked truckers, it might well look like the wretched Rostov truck stop located on the 8-lane highway that encircles this city.
Calling it a truck stop is being generous. There is no restaurant, no sn...
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NEWS FEATURE: Philanthropist’s gift aims at college spirituality
c. 1999 Religion News Service
BOSTON _ Boston College was in a bind.
With inadequate slots for volunteer work and student spiritual retreats, the Jesuit college was forced last year to wait-list 150 students for a program that combines academics and community service and 400 stude...
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COMMENTARY: Math and a large God
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.)
UNDATED _ Labor Day weekend brought two boys home from college and unusual topics to our dinner table conversation.
We talked a...
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COMMENTARY: Leaving the Vu
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.)
UNDATED _ A week ago, while in the role of son, I went for a run along the canal cutting diagonally across the north side of my h...
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COMMENTARY: Real knowing
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.)
INDIANAPOLIS - When I walk in my hometown, I like to include a stretch through my old neighborhood.
For a time after leaving fo...
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COMMENTARY: From puzzlement to frustration to blame
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
UNDATED _ When e-mail problems began last week, I looked first for answers. What was causing some people not to receive the daily meditations that I send to interest...
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COMMENTARY: An ancient truth
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(The Rev. Carter Heyward is an Episcopal priest and professor of theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.)
UNDATED _ One of the most widely read and radical feminist theologians in the world today, Mary Daly, is just too much for...
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COMMENTARY: Kansas, evolution and anthropology
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Huston Smith, author of"The World's Religions,"taught philosophy and religion at the University of California-Berkeley, Syracuse University, M.I.T. and Washington University.)
UNDATED _ The decision of the Kansas Board of Education to limit the teach...
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