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COMMENTARY: Two films shed new light on a dark era
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Sometimes movies can be a source of disappointment and dismay. But two new and highly acclaimed films with historical themes have given filmgoers...
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COMMENTARY: Singing words we would never speak
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of Religion News Service and author of"Turn Toward the Wind".)
(UNDATED) A few years back, when Tipper Gore and Susan Baker launched a bipartisan mother's campaign to label record albums, I watched from the sidelin...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Blockbuster Music forms partnership to promote Christian music
(RNS) Blockbuster Music has formed a partnership with McSpadden-Smith Music, a Nashville-based entertainment company, to promote contemporary Christian music in Blockbuster's stores nati...
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MEDIA STORY: HOLLYWOOD AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT: A cinematic battle between the reprehensible and the
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's been a thrilling, chilling blockbuster movie season this summer, as films like ``Twister,'' ``The Rock,'' and ``Independence Day'' played to packed theaters and toyed with Americans' fears about attacks from the violence of nature, well-a...
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DEATH AND DYING: Long before Kevorkian, Chicago doctor fueled death debate
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ Long before Jack Kevorkian helped his first patient die and even before his birth, another American doctor galvanized debate about physician-assisted deaths.
In 1915, Chicago surgeon Harry Haiselden held a news conference to announce...
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NEWS FEATURE: REVIEW: Recordings offer many sides of spiritual music
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-If you're looking for music with a distinctly spiritual flavor, here's a sampling of CDs from Catholic, Orthodox and American-communal Christian traditions as well as others that stir the brain cells and alternately soothe and jangle the sensibili...
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NEWS FEATURE: “City of Joy"priest continues quiet work among the poor
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CALCUTTA, India (RNS)-In his classic 1985 work,"City of Joy,"author Dominique Lapierre profiled Polish priest Stephan Kovalski, who set out to live among the poorest of Calcutta's poor.
But Kovalski's real identity is the Rev. Francis Laborde, who, mo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Film explores tensions within Southern Baptist world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Inspired by stories of his mother's recent challenges at the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary, a California filmmaker has produced a documentary on the denomination and its views on women pastors."Battle for the Minds,"a documentary t...
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Gospel singer CeCe Winans `excited’ about first solo tour
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Christian singer CeCe Winans has shared most of her recording career with her brother, BeBe.
She's best known as the female half of BeBe & CeCe Winans, the decade-old brother-sister gospel/R&B team that's become one of the most celebrated duos i...
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