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COMMENTARY: It’s not all about you
I wish I had recorded the moment when my son's middle-school soccer coach told parents to zip it. Don't coach your child from the sidelines, she said in a pre-season meeting, don't berate the referees. If you can't behave, you'll be asked to leave. I wish I could play that recording a...
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10 minutes with ... Hunter Smith
c. 2008 Beliefnet (UNDATED) Not too many rock bands include Super Bowl champions in their ranks. But Hunter Smith, punter for the Indianapolis Colts, is finding much success with his Christian rock/worship band, Connersvine.
Smith, whom Beliefnet recently named one of the ``Top Evange...
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McCain Gains Catholic Supporters
Sen. John McCain has gained the support of more than 100 prominent Catholics with the launching of the National Catholics for McCain Committee, his campaign announced Monday. The committee's co-chairs are U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, and former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating.
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Someone Ought to Call Foul on This ...
And I thought it was only the Southern Baptists who said their women should "submit graciously" to men ...
Seems the good folks at St. Mary's Academy near Topeka, Kan., told a woman she couldn't referee a boy's basketball game because putting a woman in a position of authority over me...
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Questions linger on surge in `born-again’ support for Democrats
c. 2008 Religion News Service
CHANDLER, Ariz. _ As Eli Manning drove the Giants to a championship-winning touchdown in the final minute of Super Bowl XLII, television cameras peeked at nervous team president John Mara, reaching into his shirt pocket.
Was he searching for a monogramm...
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In Centerfield - Number 16, Pope Benedict
I'd just about give my right arm to hear legendary Yankee Stadium announcer Bob Sheppard (often invoked, by my family at least, as the "voice of God") make that call.
The WashPo's Jacqueline Salmon has a story about the pope's April visit to the nation's capital. The only public event...
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Barcelona nativity scenes feature an unusual visitor
c. 2007 Religion News Service
BARCELONA, Spain _ The Virgin Mary. The three kings. A few wayward sheep. These are the figures one expects to find in a traditional Christmas nativity scene.
But a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his rear-end exposed? Not so much.
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Barcelona nativity scenes feature an unusual visitor
c. 2007 Religion News Service
BARCELONA, Spain _ The Virgin Mary. The three kings. A few wayward sheep. These are the figures one expects to find in a traditional Christmas nativity scene.
But a smartly dressed peasant squatting behind a rock with his rear-end exposed? Not so much.
An...
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Jewish food a profound and personal link to the past
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) While potato latkes are forever linked with Hanukkah, along with dreidels and menorahs, the potato part of potato latkes is actually a fairly recent invention in the history of Judaism.
Who knew?
Originally made with cheese, latkes are now made...
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Faithful keep the faith by clicking the mouse
c. 2007 Religion News Service
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. _ As David Magid studied for his bar mitzvah, his instructor directed him to an important blessing the 12-year-old would have to recite at the ceremony.
``Barchu et Adonai ha-m'vorach'' (Bless the Lord, who is to be blessed), David...
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