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NEWS FEATURE: HUNTING AND HOLINESS: To every thing there is a season ... Bam! Bam! Bam!
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ALPENA, Mich. _ At first glance, the St. Hubert Hunt Camp looks like a typical backwoods settlement: a cozy building tucked into woods dotted with tree stands and shooting shacks.
The camp's living room is furnished with tired old armchairs and the re...
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TOP STORY: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FAITH: Mainline churches seek marketing help to fill empty pews
c. 1996 Religion News Service
GRESHAM, Ore. _ It's 9 a.m. on Sunday, and the sanctuary of Gresham United Methodist Church is empty.
Row after row of pews, made in 1959 with the finest of Oregon timber, sit like sculpture in the dark. They are monuments to a bygone era when America...
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TOP STORY: JESUS SEMINAR SHIFTS FOCUS: Jesus seminar changes focus, taking aim at Paul and Nicene Cr
c. 1996 Religion News Service
SANTA ROSA, Calif. _ Having completed an ambitious and controversial decade of work on the identity and sayings of"the historical Jesus,"the maverick scholars of the Jesus Seminar have changed course, with a plan to write their own version of the New Te...
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BODY & SOUL: Religious leaders abuse power, followers unwisely surrender it
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books.)
(UNDATED) There is a deep wound in the soul o...
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Where to go for help
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Here's a list of organizations that provide help to victims and perpetrators of clergy sexual abuse:
Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, 936 North 34th St., Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98103; 206-634-1903. Provides educati...
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For many Americans, church is alien territory
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Church attendance has suffered a five-year decline and sunk to its lowest level in two decades, according to research by the Barna Research Group of Glendale, Calif.
``From the early '80s to the early '90s, there has been a definite change,'...
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COMMENTARY: Violence and vulnerability remain our constant companions
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
FRUITLAND, Tenn. _ I recently visited the Salem Baptist Church in rural Fruitland, Tenn., as part of an interreligious delegation that was assembled by th...
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NEWS STORY: YOUTH AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Parents no longer encourage church vocations
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(WASHINGTON) There was a time not too long ago when it was a point of pride for a Roman Catholic parent to have a son or daughter enter full-time church work or prepare to become a priest or nun.
No more.
A new survey of active Catholic youth shows...
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NEWS STORY: YOUTH AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Parents no longer encourage church vocations
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(WASHINGTON) There was a time not too long ago when it was a point of pride for a Roman Catholic parent to have a son or daughter enter full-time church work or prepare to become a priest or nun.
No more.
A new survey of active Catholic youth shows...
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TOP STORY: PASTORS WHO PREY: A new breed of predatory preachers in Zaire
c. 1996 Religion News Service
KINTAMBO, Zaire _ A hymn-singing crowd of some 3,000 spills into the dusty streets around a former brothel that is now an Assemblies of God church in this suburb of Zaire's capital city of Kinshasa.
Across the main highway, another Pentecostal congreg...
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