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Author finds faith and fanaticism in South’s football god
AUBURN, Ala. (RNS) Chad Gibbs has been on a pigskin pilgrimage throughout the South, searching for spiritual truth in Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge, Gainesville and Fayetteville.
He grew up a fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide and switched allegiance to his alma mater -- and the University of...
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Tuesday’s roundup
A judge sentenced a Tennessee mother of three to 42 months in the clink for taking money and services for five years to battle breast cancer -- which she never had. Filmmaker Oliver Stone angered Jewish groups by seeming to defend Hitler, and also digging up the old Jews-control-the-m...
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U.S. nun creates impromptu oasis to heal Haitian bodies and souls
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS) Wearing a bright, floral blouse and pink shorts, Mita Jean Louis stares into a mirror, unmindful of the people around her. She is smiling, and someone asks if she's smiling because she sees the reflection of such a beautiful young woman.
The smile vanishes....
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Church coach accused of bribing refs
ENOLA, Pa. (RNS) A Pennsylvania church-league basketball coach has been accused of trying to pay a $2,500 bribe to two basketball officials to throw games, state police said.
Michael Kman, 45, of Enola, is the coach for the Our Lady of Lourdes team in the Harrisburg CYO youth league....
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COMMENTARY: Into the great hereafter
(RNS) In the hothouse world of a high school gymnasium, one basketball player in my class seemed to float through the air. He was tall, thin, elegant, with an imperturbable expression on his face.
Game after game, in a city and state where basketball meant so much, a full house shoute...
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Spring marks the opening of the `Church of Baseball’
(RNS) Megachurch pastor Rick Warren stood on the mound at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., last Easter Sunday and delivered his pitch.
"Baseball is a game of numbers in which every player falls short of perfection," said the best-selling author and evangelical powerhouse. "Similarly,...
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COMMENTARY: The virtue of virtue
(RNS) Last winter, while on a trip to Southern California, theologian N.T. Wright spent some time strolling through Laguna Beach, the seaside village I happen to call home.
He wandered into one of our many charming boutiques -- he called it, perhaps more accurately, a "junk shop" -- a...
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COMMENTARY: The Christmas gift you can give to yourself
(RNS) The following is an actual exchange, unedited, except to remove the profanity.
The setting: Mid-morning at a suburban gift boutique. The time: The week before Christmas. The players: The pleasant store clerk, a 40-something soccer mom-type and me (browsing for stocking stuffers)...
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Church scores with men on a football Sunday
EAST ORANGE, N.J. (RNS) The Rev. Dwight Gill figures if there is one thing that will bring more men to church, it's football.
So Sunday (Nov. 29) at New Hope Baptist Church, NFL didn't stand for National Football League, but rather for New Found Life -- as in the church's annual NFL s...
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Amish sharks (via The Onion)
From the Onion: Amish Woman Knew She Had Quilt Sale The Moment She Laid Eyes On Chicago Couple
LANCASTER, PA _Repeatedly referring to them as "easy money," Amish quilt shop proprietor Mary Stolzfus, 43, said Monday that as soon as she noticed Tom and Helen Foreman's matching Chicago C...
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