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COMMENTARY: At a summer place, community is worth compromise
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons.)
UNDATED _ To our family, summer is the reward for making it through the rest of the year.
It's not just that another school year has ended and the pace begins to slow. It's that we...
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COMMENTARY: What difference does the Shroud of Turin make?
c. 1998 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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COMMENTARY: Real men vacuum
c. 1998 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 agreeaol.com.)
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COMMENTARY: How the Irish created Europe
c. 1998 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 at agreel(at)aol.com.)
UNDATED _ Gr...
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COMMENTARY: On diversity and difference
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz is a Roman Catholic laywoman and professor of Christian Ethics and Theology at Drew University in Madison, N.J.)
UNDATED _ At some point within the next two decades, groups that today are racial and ethnic minorities in America w...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Stereotype of long-term homeless out-of-date, survey shows
(RNS) The prevalent stereotype of America's homeless as long-term drifters is woefully out-of-date, according to a survey released Monday (Nov. 23).
A 1998 survey of 20,000 homeless people...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: It’s the poorest workers that draw religious support
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Observers say the partnership between religion and labor is likely to remain a limited one. They point out that religious activists tend to gravitate to union causes that involve workers who earn poverty-level wages.
The Rev. George Higgin...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Reformer picked as new Orthodox Church head in Greece
(RNS) A reformer has been chosen the new head of the Orthodox Church in Greece.
Metropolitan Christodoulos, 59, was elected archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Greece Tuesday (April 28) by the...
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RNS-BAPTIST-TEXT: Text of Baptist statement on the family
c. 1998 Religion News Service
SALT LAKE CITY _ Here is the text of the statement on the family, adopted June 9 as Article XVIII, of the Baptist Faith and Message, by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention:
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human...
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COMMENTARY: Bringing the Third World home
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and serves on the board of World Vision International.)
UNDATED _ Traveling to a developing country is often a life-changing experience.
The sights, sounds and peoples of a country so foreign can up-end the wa...
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