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TOP STORY: ARTS AND RELIGION: Houses of worship, temples of dreams
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Particles of light trickle through a stained-glass window. The beam of a movie projector casts scenes of grace and grandeur onto the screen of a hushed and darkened theater. To novelist John Updike, both images resonate with ideas of the sacred: t...
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NEWS STORY: Pope urges media to foster improved image of women
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has called on the mass media to cease their"exploitation of women"in print, broadcast and cinema portrayals, and promote the rights and"dignity"of women by accurately depicting their lives.
The pope wrote in a mess...
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NEWS STORY: Vatican goes interactive with museum treasures
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Why spend richly to tour the Vatican museums, along hot, crowded and noisy corridors, when you can take in the artistic richness of the Catholic Church's artifacts and paintings at home?
The question may now be more than academic. T...
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NEWS FEATURE: BROTHERS IN MUSIC: Singers discover interfaith album strikes sour note
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ When two top artists in contemporary Christian music decided to do an album and concert tour together, they thought they were simply celebrating their shared faith and an admiration for each others' music.
But Michael Card is an evangelical...
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COMMENTARY: A new big brother wields censor’s scissors
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Eds: Matt Zoller Seitz writes for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.)
(UNDATED) A while back, a friend told me he'd become a fan of the edgy, offbeat character actor Harvey Keitel. I urged him to rent ``Bad Lieutenant,'' a 1992 urban drama starring Keit...
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BODY & SOUL: The best rituals of Christmas are homegrown
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books.)
UNDATED _ Each Christmas season, the frosty,...
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NEWS STORY: VIOLENT TOYS: Group releases list of unacceptable playthings
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A toy based on the movie"Independence Day"that includes models of real public buildings that collapse when"bombed"is among the toys that a Maryland organization is urging parents not to purchase this holiday season.
Daphne White, executiv...
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COMMENTARY: Origin of the species is more mysterious than the apes
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Cols...
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COMMENTARY: GI Joe courts disaster with GI Jennifer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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COMMENTARY: GI Joe courts disaster with GI Jennifer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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