Faith
NEWS FEATURE: Making radical changes to keep the unchurched interested
c. 1997 Religion News Service
FAIRHOPE, Ala. _ So. You've got the family, the job, the house, the cat, the dog, the two-car garage and ... what's the meaning of life again?
You're not quite sure, but you remember, when you were little you sat inside hallowed halls where stained gl...
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NEWS FEATURE: Making radical changes to keep the unchurched interested
c. 1997 Religion News Service
FAIRHOPE, Ala. _ So. You've got the family, the job, the house, the cat, the dog, the two-car garage and ... what's the meaning of life again?
You're not quite sure, but you remember, when you were little you sat inside hallowed halls where stained gl...
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NEWS STORY: Promise Keepers puts finishing touches on preps for Stand in the Gap
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _"This is church,"the Rev. Dale Schlafer said Friday (Oct. 3)."This is a big prayer meeting ... of men who love Christ who are saying to him, `Forgive us for having failed you, Lord Jesus.'" Schlafer, director of Stand in the Gap: A Sacred A...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Promise Keepers looks to build on success of Stand in the Gap
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ When Promise Keepers brought hundreds of thousands of men to the National Mall on Saturday (Oct. 4), it looked like the apex of the seven-year-old evangelical Christian men's movement.
But Bill McCartney, the movement's founder, has a pla...
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NEWS FEATURE: Scientists being won over in the spirit-health debate
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ When 70 of the nation's leading medical and social science researchers set out to study how spirituality and health intersect, the panel's coordinator decided to open its first meeting with prayer.
Many _ but not all _ of his colleagues b...
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NEWS STORY: Bishops criticize theologians on women priest issue
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have told American theologians that the church's teaching barring women from the priesthood has"as much of a claim to definitiveness as one might reasonably expect." And in light of that finality, the bishops sa...
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yMDBONCC burned churches effort to focus next on racial healing
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The National Council of Churches (NCC) _ which has taken the lead in assisting predominantly black churches burned in a spate of fires since 1995 _ is moving into the second phase of its Church Rebuilding Project.
The transition is being...
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NEWS STORY: Promise Keepers gather to repent, seek religious revival
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Tens of thousands of men, some who had spent the camped out, others who rose early to jam subways and trek through the streets of downtown Washington, gathered Saturday for the Promise Keepers"Stand in the Gap"assembly, creating a sea of Ch...
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NEWS STORY: CLINTON AND THE CLERGY: Clinton urges religious leaders to work for reconciliation
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ President Clinton, in a preview of what is expected to be a major theme of his second term, Monday (Jan. 6) urged a group of Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders to work toward reconciliation in a country filled with"scores"of rac...
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NEWS FEATURE: Former pastor’s new ministry is sending Christian literature abroad
c. 1997 Religion News Service
DECATUR, Ala. _ The Rev. Edwin L. Hodges believes he has God's stamp of approval on his ministry. But what he needs now are postage stamps to help spread the gospel throughout the world.
After serving as a pastor for 22 years, Hodges worked for Bibles...
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