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NEWS FEATURE: Filmmakers consult widely for animated movie on Moses
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _"Get all the advice you can, and you will succeed, without it you will fail,"says the biblical book of Proverbs.
The honchos at DreamWorks SKG, it seems, are paying close attention.
The studio has covered just about every Judeo-Christia...
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NEWS FEATURE: Movie Moses telling more of the Bible’s stories
c. 1998 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES _ He parted the Red Sea in"The Ten Commandments."He baptized Jesus in"The Greatest Story Ever Told."He painted the Sistine Chapel in"The Agony and the Ecstasy"and he bent down to give Jesus a drink of water in"Ben-Hur." But mostly, Charlton...
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NEWS FEATURE: Over coffee, Cleveland clergy react to the movie `Simon Birch’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The tiny 12-year-old boy, all the self-confident bravado of near-adolescence gone and replaced with the small voice of a child experiencing his first crisis of faith, looks up at his minister and says:"I want to know there's a reason for thi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Greek Orthodox Church denies report archbishop has been replaced
(RNS) Greek Orthodox Church dissidents Friday (Aug. 28) reported on their Web site that the embattled head of the church's American branch has been reassigned. A spokesman for Archbish...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Frugal Gourmet settles sex assault suit
(RNS) Jeff Smith, the ``Frugal Gourmet''and an ordained Methodist minister, avoided a civil trial set to begin next week in Tacoma, Wash., by reaching a settlement with his accusers on allegations he sexually...
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NEWS FEATURE: Exhibit shows importance of African-American sacred music in American life
c. 1997 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ A life-size cutout of singer Marian Anderson looms large in a new exhibit at the Western Reserve Historical Society. Rightly so. Even when not listening to her soaring, powerful contralto, Anderson's story is not only gripping but emblematic...
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NEWS FEATURE: Common Ground: In song, racial ethnic divide is overcome
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WESTMINSTER, Md. _ Kim Nichols recalls when she and her younger sisters, Kellie and Krissy, ventured into a black church one fall Sunday in 1994."It was a life-changing experience,"said Nichols, 23."It was joyful. It was overwhelming." It was the han...
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NEWS FEATURE: Porn publisher’s daughter decries smut, abuse
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Whoever coined the phrase"God works in mysterious ways"must have seen Tonya Flynt-Vega's story on the horizon.
Flynt-Vega _ the Flynt comes from her father, controversial porn publisher Larry Flynt _ keeps busy these days denouncing the very...
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c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Terry Jones of the contemporary Christian music group Point of Grace lives one state west from the charged musical environment of Nashville. From her perspective in Little Rock, Ark., she believes the gospel music industry can benefit from coo...
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NEWS STORY: First group of gospel greats for Hall of Fame unveiled
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Legendary singer Shirley Caesar and prolific composer Thomas Dorsey are among 16 individuals and groups to be inducted Friday (Oct. 10) into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, a new organization to honor significant contributions to the gospel mus...
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