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NEWS STORY: REBUILDING BURNED CHURCHES: Fire-damaged churches receive money to rebuild
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The National Council of Churches will distribute nearly $1 million of the $8.3 million it has collected so far to nine congregations in its first round of grants to help predominantly African-American congregations that have been damaged by fi...
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Now women have promises to keep
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Five years ago, Christian men drawn to the emerging Promise Keepers movement began attending mass rallies in stadiums across the country, making pledges to make their faith and families paramount in their lives.
Now, it appears to be the wom...
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NEWS FEATURE: WOMEN AND PROMISE KEEPERS
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Five years ago, Christian men drawn to the emerging Promise Keepers movement began attending mass rallies in stadiums across the country, making pledges to make their faith and families paramount in their lives.
Now, it appears to be the wom...
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COMMENTARY: Beware the `W"word
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) Preachers of every faith have long employed a special vocabulary to do battle with their adversaries. The S-words, for instance _"sin,""secular,"...
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NEWS FEATURE: CHURCHES REACHING OUT: Two churches bond as they build a new sanctuary
c. 1996 Religion News Service
GILLIAM, La. _ Terral Whetstone doesn't remember exactly when the idea formed, this plan to burn the black congregation's church.
But the more he thought about it, the more this white man liked it. ``The Lord just kind of led us into it,'' Whetstone s...
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NEWS FEATURE: Olympic religion: Let the preaching begin
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) As athletes descend upon Atlanta for the Summer Olympics eyeing medals of gold, silver and bronze, teams of religious people are setting their sights on more timeless values.
Inside the Olympic Village, 38 chaplains are ready to provide scri...
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NEWS UPDATE: CHURCH FIRES: Clinton calls for emergency funds to fight church fires
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As the number of suspicious fires at mostly black, Southern churches climbed to more than 40 in the last 18 months, President Clinton called Tuesday (July 2) for an emergency transfer of money to help combat the attacks.
Speaking in the Whi...
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TOP STORY: THE METHODIST CHURCH: Congregations seek to make a difference with `Holy Boldness’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ The Rev. Dennis O. Rinehart feels trapped.
As pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church in Warren, Ohio, he watched his operating costs jump 250 percent when he traded rented school space for a church building.
Now, instead of writing...
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COMMENTARY: Standing together in the ashes
c. 1996 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) In December 1955, Robert Graetz was an idealistic 27-year-old minister, fiv...
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COMMENTARY: Standing together in the ashes
c. 1996 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) In December 1955, Robert Graetz was an idealistic 27-year-old minister, fiv...
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