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COMMENTARY: Give, and it will be given unto you
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service and author of"Turn Toward the Wind.")
UNDATED _ What exactly motivates someone to donate money to a charity? Is it guilt, knowledge, empathy, or sympathy?
Fund-raisers have debated this quest...
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COMMENTARY: The spiritual life: It’s not about winning
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye is abbot of Kannon Do, a Zen meditation center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of the new book"Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher's 30-Year Journey in Corporate America (Crown).)
UNDATED _ I started Zen practice 30 years ago, not fully understa...
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BUSINESS STORY: `Unprecedented’ settlement reached in New Era case
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A path-breaking settlement has been reached in the scandal resulting from the collapse of the Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, the Pennsylvania charity whose grant programs have been described as an investment scam.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge...
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COMMENTARY: Lessons from `Daddy Do-right’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(UNDATED) I embarrassed my children again the other day.
Waiting for them to emerge from the swimming pool locker room, I sat down on the edge of a pl...
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TOP STORY: THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION: Catholic Church’s aggressive marketing reaps rewards
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ It has a recognizable name. Revenues have jumped 400 percent in four years and companies come begging for exclusivity rights. Business is so brisk that it's planning to tap the Internet to expand its market reach.
With results like thes...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: The sky is falling. . . or is it?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A record number of hurricanes blew across the globe in 1995.
An earthquake in Kobe, Japan, killed 6,000 and an unusually high number of severe tremors shook the world.
Massive blizzards buffeted the United States last winter, followed by r...
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COMMENTARY: Loathing Leona, but lusting for her luxury
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-I thin...
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COMMENTARY: Loathing Leona, but lusting for her luxury
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices,"is active in the National Women's Coalition for Life and is a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-I think...
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COMMENTARY: Signs of spring in Sarajevo
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service and a member of the board of World Vision. She recently returned to the former Yugoslavia to see how life has changed since the Dayton Peace Accord.)
SARAJEVO (RNS)-Snow lies like a soft blank...
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COMMENTARY: Food has the power to nurture the soul
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Each year at Thanksgiving, the scent of sage-stuffed turkey and cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie fills my house with the perfume of old memories. Like photographs, these aromas trigger nostalgic images of holidays past.
That food has the power to...
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