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COMMENTARY: Home schooling becomes a choice, not a cause
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ In the beginning, home-schoolers got no respect.
They were labeled reactionaries, extremists, fundamentalists _ and that was mostly by their churchgoing brethren.
The rest of the world simply cal...
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COMMENTARY: Where has all the passion gone?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ As the summer of '99 winds down, it seems that we have spent most of it reminiscing about the summer of '69.
We have relived Woodstock, revisited the first moon walk and remembered the Vietnam War....
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COMMENTARY: Catholic colleges in trouble
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1999 Religion News Service
Kentucky drops `evolution' from science teaching guidelines
(RNS) Kentucky education officials have replaced the world"evolution"with the phrase"biological change over time"in their state's guidelines for teaching science. Officials stressed that th...
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NEWS FEATURE: Genealogists expect treasure trove when Mormon records go online
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Much to the delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the first time next month, if not sooner.
The new Web site (http://www.familysearch.org)...
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NEWS FEATURE: For organizers, `Christian Woodstock’ is leap of faith
c. 1999 Religion News Service
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. _ Word has gone out to all the world that Port Austin College of Advanced Bible Study in this sleepy village of about 800 will be the site next weekend of what's being heralded as the"Christian Woodstock." Well, not all the world.
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COMMENTARY: Where have all the unisexuals gone?
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons who prefer to be called"manly men.")
UNDATED _ I'm so old, I remember when unisex was a new, risque term.
Back in those days, we ducked into shops promising unisex fashions and s...
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COMMENTARY: Tell me an old, old story
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service)
UNDATED _ We are assaulted by e-mail, bombarded by phone messages. News bites inform us and sitcoms entertain us. Beepers and car phones ensure we are always within reach.
But despite th...
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NEWS FEATURE: College grads put faith, idealism to work as inner-city volunteers
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Fresh out of college, Stefanie Atwater counsels rape victims and gives community presentations on sexual violence.
As a member of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, she's getting hands-on experience she hadn't expected to have so soon after gr...
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NEWS FEATURE: Church group inspired by moral lessons from Mayberry
c. 1998 Religion News Service
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ In a scene on"The Andy Griffith Show"that takes place in church, a visiting speaker extols the merits of taking life slow and easy.
Afterward, as they exit the church, Andy and Barney shake hands with the speaker."Yes sir,"Barney...
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