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COMMENTARY: Should we be thankful for how little we suffer?
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ If there is one principle that Americans agree about, one theme that pervades our advertising and public policy and even our education system, it is this: No one should have to suffer.
Americans ha...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Pope ends Brazil trip with condemnation of abortion, divorce
(RNS) Pope John Paul II returned to Italy on Monday (Oct. 6) after a four-day trip to Brazil in which he strongly reaffirmed church teaching on the importance of the family and sharply con...
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NEWS FEATURE: In the giving game, the rich give but the poor come out losers
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Wealthy Americans tend to give to wealthy institutions, most often the college that upped their earning potential and the hospital keeping them healthy. They don't give much to the poor.
It's their business where they decide to give their...
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NEWS FEATURE: Starving kids images raise money _ and ethical questions
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED It's a holiday season standard. An emaciated little girl in a tattered dress stares into the camera, and TV viewers are told they can either spend a few dollars a month to feed her or think of her on Christmas crying herself to sleep.
American...
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COMMENTARY: Revisionist, historical Thanksgiving: both overdrawn and exaggerated
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Poor Thanksgiving. Even this beloved and most American of holidays is currently a battleground between"politically correct"historical revisionist...
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COMMENTARY: Christmas amid our economic anxieties
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ A"macro"view of the American economy requires a loftier perch than most of us can obtain. But at ground zero, our mutual economic adventure looks like this:
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, the parking lot at Target started to fill at 7:30...
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NEWS FEATURE:“The Fonz,“propelled by Jewish faith, campaigns for children
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ATLANTA _ Henry Winkler is best known for his role as"the Fonz,"the 50s-style anti-hero and gentle delinquent on the 1970s hit sitcom"Happy Days." Today, Winkler is a different kind of hero. At 51, the successful actor, producer and director has shed t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Sharing the word through `God’s cookie business’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In a way, you could say Bill Heiland has shared his faith with millions around the world during the past decade. But he's neither an evangelist nor a pastor _ he runs what he calls"God's cookie business." Heiland is the founder of Evangelisti...
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COMMENTARY: The perspective from jail on the Nativity
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ The security vestibule at Forsyth County Jail in Winston-Salem, N.C., is like an air lock....
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COMMENTARY: A flood of volunteers may drown charities
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ It's either feast or famine in the kitchen of the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C.
The ebb and flow has less to do with the fo...
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