Faith
NEWS STORY: Firms looking to turn big bucks on WWJD symbols
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ARLINGTON, Va. _ Nearly a decade ago, youth pastor Janie Tinklenberg struggled to devise a tangible symbol of teen-aged commitment to God.
Having read a century-old novel with a simple Christian concept _ asking"What would Jesus do?"in everyday circum...
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NEWS FEATURE: Identity of Vatican II writer no longer secret
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ANNAPOLIS, Md. _ What the Rev. Francis X. Murphy liked to pretend was a great mystery is no longer.
The mystery was who is Xavier Rynne, the pseudonymous writer for the New Yorker magazine who created a sensation with his ``Letters from Vatican City''...
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NEWS FEATURE: Ministry turns to entrepreneurship to aid street children
c. 1998 Religion News Service
ALAJUELITA, Costa Rica _ Cuco is a child nobody wanted. The little boy wanders the streets of Alajuelita, a slum west of Costa Rica's capital, San Jose. Crack addicts and gangs roam Cuco's neighborhood, where his mother, a prostitute, sells drugs. The t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Proposed Presbyterian catechism contemplates salvation for non-Christians
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) _ Save a little more space in heaven.
While God still holds all the cards, a proposed Presbyterian catechism says Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and others might be destined for the life of eternal peace and happiness many Christians used to envis...
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COMMENTARY: In the face of change, can God be trusted?
c. 1998 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., and a fellow of the Gallup International Institute.)
UNDATED _ One of the toughest ch...
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COMMENTARY: Hookers have souls, too
c. 1998 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 _ They traverse the streets night and day, brazenly hailing their customers....
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COMMENTARY: Hope, Frustration in the African-American community
c. 1998 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 _ At a recent seminar on civil and legal rights, I received an interesting in...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Magazine survey finds pastors feel overworked
(RNS) A magazine survey of pastors finds that almost half say they work too hard, on average 55 hours per week.
The survey of about 600 respondents was conducted by Christianity Today Inc., and will be...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Lilly Endowment issues theological school grants to foster leaders
(RNS) The Lilly Endowment has issued grants of more than $55 million to 58 theological schools in North America to help enhance pastoral leadership of churches.
The grants from the...
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COMMENTARY: For Labor Day _ `family values jobs’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Kim Bobo is the executive director of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in Chicago.)
UNDATED _ In recent years, the religious community has talked about, preached about, and even sought to legislate family values.
This Labor Day...
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