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Endorsement Watch: Wildmon for Huckabee
Following religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's stand with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, American Family Association Founder Donald Wildmon announced Thursday that he's backing former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (see Huckabee announcement here).
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Ten minutes with ... Tom Perrotta
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In a strange way, literature and the culture wars are a little alike.
Both take small moments _ an off-the-cuff remark in a sex-ed lecture, a team prayer after a youth soccer match _ and make them full-blown phenomena.
Two such incidents f...
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Proof that there is a God after all ...
Or, at least there's one for the longsuffering baseball fans on Washington, DC
Indulge me, if you will ...
Not even a week after God shined his face upon the beloved boys of Boston once again, the turf is going in at the new Washington Nationals stadium here in DC. The Nats have spent...
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Faith changed best-selling novelist’s world
c. 2007 Religion News Service
VANCOUVER, Wash. _ Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside Vancouver in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool.
This is the house that Life Changing Fictio...
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Mormon Pitcher's Game Improved After Time Spent in a Different Uniform
RNS' Daniel Burke profiles Baltimore Orioles rookie pitcher Jeremy Guthrie, a Mormon who gave up baseball to do missionary work in Spain, and is now back, and better than ever, in this week's full-text article, lin...
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Mormon Pitcher’s Game Improved After Time Spent in a Different Uniform
c. 2007 Religion News Service
BALTIMORE _ It's a steamy summer night and Baltimore Orioles rookie pitcher Jeremy Guthrie is staring down the New York Yankees, whose potent hitters have hammered 70 runs in their previous seven games.
The Yankees challenge the rookie in the first in...
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Talking God and Baseball with Mike Piazzan
c. 2007 Beliefnet
(UNDATED) After starting his career as the 1,390th player chosen in baseball's 1988 amateur draft, Mike Piazza has gone on to defy expectations and become one of the top major-league catchers of all time.
Piazza won the 1993 Rookie of the Year Award, has been cho...
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Talking God and Baseball with Mike Piazza
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) After starting his career as the 1,390th player chosen in baseball's 1988 amateur draft, Mike Piazza has gone on to defy expectations and become one of the top major-league catchers of all time.
Piazza won the 1993 Rookie of the Year Award,...
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Author’s Daughters Turn The Tables on Their Own Jewish Mom
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In her new book, ``You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother,'' Joyce Antler examines the American Jewish mother stereotype throughout the 20th century. Her own daughters, 30-year-old Lauren, a comedian living in New York...
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JDate Members Rate Their Own Jewish Moms
c. 2007 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) JDate, an online Jewish dating service, recently polled 300 members about their mothers. Following are excerpted results:
Q: What TV mom best typifies your Jewish mother?
Marie Barone _ ``Everyone Loves Raymond'' _ the nagging mom: 33...
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