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NEWS FEATURE: Christian devotional books are big sellers
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Take a peek at your local bookstore shelves and you'll see that devotion is in. Devotion to God, that is.
A range of Christian devotional literature _ from tiny gift books to hefty specialized Bibles _ is reaching just about every audience i...
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COMMENTARY: So much said, so little heard
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 _ At first, it was Bill Gates' prediction that caught my eye. The next big technological thr...
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NEWS STORY: Orthodox Jewish feminists redefining a male-dominated faith
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Orthodox Judaism is viewed by most as a male-dominated faith in which women are constrained by the dictates of traditional Jewish law. Given that, the term Orthodox feminist would seem to be an oxymoron.
But not to Blu Greenberg. To her, Ort...
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COMMENTARY: The real mission of the church
c. 1997 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 _ A recent incident involving one of my inmate congregants sheds light on the...
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COMMENTARY: The real mission of the church
c. 1997 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 _ A recent incident involving one of my inmate congregants sheds light on the...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Atheists protest Promise Keepers, plan future
(RNS) Members of American Atheists, gathered in Washington to demonstrate against Promise Keepers, are making plans to be more active in efforts to maintain a strict separation of church and state.
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NEWS STORY: Promise Keepers puts finishing touches on preps for Stand in the Gap
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _"This is church,"the Rev. Dale Schlafer said Friday (Oct. 3)."This is a big prayer meeting ... of men who love Christ who are saying to him, `Forgive us for having failed you, Lord Jesus.'" Schlafer, director of Stand in the Gap: A Sacred A...
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NEWS FEATURE: Scientists being won over in the spirit-health debate
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ When 70 of the nation's leading medical and social science researchers set out to study how spirituality and health intersect, the panel's coordinator decided to open its first meeting with prayer.
Many _ but not all _ of his colleagues b...
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NEWS STORY: President, powerful join in prayer for the poor, need for civility
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ A bipartisan crowd of politicians, diplomats, church leaders and other prominent people, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, gathered Thursday (Feb. 6) for a morning meal of muffins and morality at the National Pray...
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Note the spellings of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, Masjid Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad, the
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ When Nadir Najeeullah embraced Islam in the mid-1970s, he said goodbye to his long-haired Afro and chose a more conservative, close-cropped style.
But he simultaneously said hello to many questions from Christian family members who did not u...
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