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COMMENTARY: The Death of a Prison Guard: A Chaplain’s View
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 _ I have an eerie feeling in my bones. It is a sense of uncertainty and antic...
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COMMENTARY: A Muslim view of Judge Moore’s courtroom
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Salam Al-Maryati is director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Ambereen Khan is director of the council's Washington office)
UNDATED _ This week, 2 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world embarked on a pilgrimage _ the Hajj _ to Mecca to...
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COMMENTARY: Women rabbis infuse new spirituality into Judaism
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ It has been 25 years since Sally Priesand broke the gender barrier by becoming the first woman rabbi. Historically, only men could become rabbis,...
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COMMENTARY: Needed: A meaningful debate about God
c. 1997 religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee).
UNDATED _ A new organization,"The Committee for the Defense of a Responsible God,"needs to be established as soon as possible to preserve God's integrity....
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COMMENTARY: Intramural squabbles among Jews are as old as Moses
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Recently, a small group of Orthodox rabbis in the United States asserted that they alone are the true representatives of the Jewish reli...
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COMMENTARY: Getting through the getting-through times
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ Life can be good. Life can be bad. But mostly, life is somewhere in between.
It's in that mid-range of life that most of us struggle to survive. Too often, we...
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COMMENTARY: A gentile’s guide to the Jewish High Holy Days
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ It was just the third day of the school year and I faced my first crisis as a room mother. Someone had inadvertently scheduled the 4th-grade parent's party on t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Hong Kong ministry seeks to remove ‘Western trappings’ of Christianity
c. 1997 Religion News Service
HONG KONG _ On a lofty mountaintop overlooking Hong Kong's modernized Shatin Valley, a round white temple with vivid red columns and pagoda-shaped roofs dominates the Tao Fong Shan compound. At first glance, the temple appears similar to many of the orn...
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Guidelines for religious expression in federal workplaces
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Here are some directives from the"Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace"issued by President Clinton on Thursday (Aug. 14):
_ An employee can keep a Bible or Koran on a private desk to read durin...
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NEWS FEATURE: Focolare Movement founder to address Muslims in Harlem
c. 1997 Religion News Service
ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy _ Popes may come and go but Chiara Lubich endures.
At age 77, the president and founder of the Focolare (Hearth) Movement, one of the largest lay groups in the Roman Catholic Church, is busy sowing seeds for the future.
In Janua...
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