Faith
Excerpts from Daily Word magazine
c. 1997 Religion News Service
On Freedom: Day 208
I am a free and whole person.
I am free from anything that would hold me back from expressing the light and love of God within me! I am free with the freedom of the spirit. Thank You, God!
Life-affirming statements and uplift...
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NEWS FEATURE: Little magazine that inspired millions becomes a book
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Richard Block, co-founder of H&R Block, swears by it. So do actors Michael York, Doris Day and Robert Stack. Fannie Flagg, author of"Fried Green Tomatoes,"is such a fan that she had one of her characters reading it in her book.
It's Daily Wo...
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NEWS STORY: Archbishop of Canterbury: Diana’s death shows English religious yearning
c. 1997 Religion News Service
LONDON _ The"humbling, astonishing"response to the death of Princess Diana dramatically demonstrated a deep strain of religious yearning among the English people to which the church must learn to respond, according to Archbishop of Canterbury George Car...
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NEWS FEATURE: Church arson: What was `intended for evil, God turned into good’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JOHNSTON STATION, Miss. _ Four and a half years after three teen-agers torched its predecessor in the middle of the night, members of Rocky Point Missionary Baptist Church dedicated a new, bigger church Sunday (Oct. 5), built on donations and the volunt...
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NEWS FEATURE: Church arson: What was `intended for evil, God turned into good’
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JOHNSTON STATION, Miss. _ Four and a half years after three teen-agers torched its predecessor in the middle of the night, members of Rocky Point Missionary Baptist Church dedicated a new, bigger church Sunday (Oct. 5), built on donations and the volunt...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Vatican official calls Buddhism"erotic spirituality" (RNS) The chief custodian of Roman Catholic doctrine has ridiculed the rising appeal of Buddhist practices among Christians, saying the church must do all it can to combat the challenge.
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COMMENTARY: A new view after moving from pulpit to pew
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 _ Twenty-eight months after moving from pulpit to pew, I have come to three conclusions abou...
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COMMENTARY: Letter to a mother who lost her son to cancer
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 _ A woman lost a son to cancer. Now she asks questions.
Why did he die when others live? W...
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COMMENTARY: Where the rootless find grounding and the anonymous feel known
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 _ It took a book of poetry to answer a question that has long perplexed me: Why do some cong...
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COMMENTARY: Denominational loyalty is on the wane
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)
DAPHNE, Ala. _ Ancient boundaries were missing when eight people gathered at an Episcopal pastor's ta...
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