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Quote of the Day: Jeff Halpern, captain of Washington Capitals hockey team
I wish we didn't have a game. But it's too important to me, my family and the community that has supported me, not to participate. I'm not the most religious person in the world, but this is something my family...
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Is God a baseball fan?
Quote of the Day: Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon
"We know it's going to come down to this weekend. It's the master plan. God's way. Yankees-Red Sox."
-Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon, predicting that the outcome of the American League East baseball standings will be determined when h...
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Giant Jesus: Highway Guardian or Christian Kitsch?
c. 2005 Religion News Service
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio _ Shake every kudzu vine across America's southern Bible belt, and no glow-in-the-dark plastic Jesus quite like Ohio's mega-messiah will ever pop out.
Nicknamed ``Super Savior,'' the 62-foot-tall statue of Christ looms over land recla...
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Praying before the big game
Quote of the Day: Fellowship of Christian Athletes Executive Dan Britton
"The landscape of sports is so crazy-parents beating up coaches, NBA players going into the stands, baseball players getting traded halfway through the season. A wooden bat and a leather ball make a horrible god....
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COMMENTARY: Roadside Crosses and Other Memorials Remind Us We’ll Run Out of Road, too
c. 2005 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The roadside memorial is starting to look as worn and weary as grief itself, the kind that won't leave no matter how much you want it to go away.
For the past eight months or so, I've passed the homemade shrine on a busy patch of road in a...
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COMMENTARY: In an Open Society, We’re All Vulnerable to Terrorism
c. 2005 Religion News Service
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ One swimmer in Durham's summer league championships was legally blind. Another had mental handicaps. Another had a cast on one arm.
Then came an 11-year-old boy who was slow even for the slowest heat in breaststroke. He zigzagged 2...
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COMMENTARY: How to Be a Father They’ll Fondly Remember
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) On the last hole, I sailed my tee shot into the lake. So did my 24-year-old son. So did my 13-year-old son. Like father, like son.
After dropping off my clubs, I walked toward my son's truck and saw two brothers sitting on the tailgate, chat...
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COMMENTARY: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Enough of politicians, preachers and their seductive tango of moralistic rage. It's time to watch our Triple-A Durham Bulls usher in the promise of summer.
Long lines at ticket windows suggest that my son and I aren't alone in savoring the f...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic Nun Begins Sentence Related to Protest, Says It’s `Jesus Way’
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Before going behind bars Tuesday (March 15), Sister Lelia ``Lil'' Mattingly said she expected jail would be cold and dreary compared to life in a convent. But the nun sentenced in connection with a protest in Georgia said her imprisonment foll...
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In World Series Win, Some Players and Fans See the Hand of a Higher Power
c. 2004 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Ecstatic with their first World Series championship in 86 years, fans of the never-say-die Boston Red Sox are preparing to enshrine this team's players as bigger-than-life legends who overcame the infamous Curse of the Bambino.
But as the Fe...
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