Faith
NEWS FEATURE: TV gets spiritual, but not everyone’s applauding
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Meet Father ``Ray'' Raynaux (Kevin Anderson), star of ABC's upcoming new drama series, ``Nothing Sacred.''
Father Ray is a Catholic priest who runs a cash-strapped parish. He keeps an atheist on staff to balance the books, prefers presiding...
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NEWS STORY: Poll shows few choosing clergy for spiritual support in facing death
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Many Americans long for spiritual support as they reach the end of their lives, but few say they would choose clergy to provide it, a newly released Gallup survey shows."A lot of people have deep spiritual needs that are not being met,"said po...
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NEWS STORY: Dissidents in Episcopal Church seek to form"church within a church”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Like a spurned and angry spouse, the conservative wing of the Episcopal Church is sleeping these days in a separate bedroom and contemplating setting up its own household.
Leaders of the Episcopal Synod of America, an independent organizatio...
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NEWS FEATURE: Making the Koran more accessible for Ramadan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ It opens with the al-Fatiha, a succinct rendering of Islam's essence also included in the prayers that observant Muslims recite five times daily. For Muslims, the holy book known in formal Arabic as al-Qur'an al-Karim,"the noble Koran,"has a s...
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NEWS STORY: First women hired as Orthodox Jewish `congregational interns’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In a first for Orthodox Judaism, two prominent New York synagogues have hired women as"congregational interns,"a position stretching the role of women within tradition-bound Orthodoxy by including some duties normally performed by rabbis.
Or...
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NEWS BOX: Promise Keepers announce sites of 1998 pastors’ conferences
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Here's the list of 1998 conferences for pastors announced by Promise Keepers as part of their next phase:
Philadelphia, Jan. 15; Denver, Jan. 22; Portland, Ore., Jan. 27; San Diego, Jan. 29; Nashville, Feb. 5; Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 10; Dalla...
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NEWS FEATURE: African-rooted churches springing up in America
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ For generations, Christian missionaries from the United States journeyed to Africa to teach their religion.
Now, however, amid an explosion of Christianity in Africa, churches there are sending thousands of missionaries overseas to preach th...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: The many ways to take a break at work
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Experts recommend an array of techniques to help employees"entrain"their over-stressed nerves to a rhythmic pace more conducive to peace of mind:
_ Stephan Rechtschaffen says it is through practicing"mindfulness"during the little pauses in e...
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COMMENTARY: Turning off TV talk, tuning into prayer
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Riding my exercise bicycle each morning is physically rewarding, but incredibly boring. For years, I watched the morning programs on television t...
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COMMENTARY: It’s time to retire the term `Judeo-Christian’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ It's time to retire one of our most popular verbal icons:"Judeo-Christian tradition." I say this with sadness, because until recently I...
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