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NEWS FEATURE: Americans giving more time, less money
c. 1999 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Americans are more willing to give their time to good causes than their money these days.
A recent survey of household giving and volunteering shows that despite a booming economy, the financial contribution rate stayed at just about the...
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NEWS FEATURE: Women’s sermons bend the gender of God
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ God, said Simone de Beauvoir, tends to look a lot like whoever is in power.
But Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig, a professor at Hebrew Union College in New York City, has a different visual. She preached: ``God is a woman and she is growing older...
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NEWS FEATURE: `Tainted money’: to take or take not, that is the question
c. 1999 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ A former Haitian dictator reaches into his stolen wealth to help Mother Teresa's work with the homeless in Calcutta.
Michael Milken, a Wall Street tycoon who did time for securities fraud, dispenses much of his fortune to medical researc...
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NEWS FEATURE: Churches providing support for caregivers
c. 1999 Religion News Service
BOWIE, Md. _ On a recent Friday evening, E. Nancy O'Liddy, a member of St. Edward's Catholic Church in Bowie, Md., rushed from her job near Capitol Hill back out to this suburb to give her 71-year-old mother a bath."Mom's had eight strokes. Caring for M...
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COMMENTARY: The prodigal and the village: Are we not our children’s keepers?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ There was much rejoicing at our friends' home Saturday (June 12). Eighteen-...
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NEWS STORY: Bullish stock market gave charities boost; future uncertain
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Most U.S. charities had a bumper year in 1997, according to new figures, but the rosy glow may already be evaporating as fund-raisers agonize over whether the erratic stock market will discourage donors.
In 1997, with the stock market sti...
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NEWS FEATURE: Corporate philanthropy turns from check writing to sweat equity
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Nothing in Jim Shippey's career at United Parcel Service suggested he would spend the end of a hot summer day crouched under a bridge in New York's South Bronx section, grilling surplus prison food with a nun.
The nun, Sister Lauria, was his...
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NEWS FEATURE: Doing good while shopping online
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In search of books, sweaters, toys, and a nearly infinite variety of whatevers, Americans are spending billions of dollars out there in the Internet universe. Online shoppers spent some $3.5 billion in the last quarter of 1998 alone.
With al...
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EASTER FEATURE: The evangelist, the president and the `craft’ of forgiveness
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ They were words whispered in one final, tortured breath:"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Even as Jesus hung on the cross, badly beaten and nearly dead, he mustered the strength to petition God on behalf of his murderers...
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NEWS FEATURE: For the modern Thanksgiving meal, gratitude is not on the menu
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ From the first Thanksgiving _ a day set aside in 1621 by the first Pilgrim settlers to be mindful of God's blessings _ to the football-rooting food-binge typical of the holiday today, the thoughts of Americans about the fourth Thursday of Nove...
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