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NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school's intercom. "The Bill of Rights was created to protect the mi...
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NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school's intercom. "The Bill of Rights was created to protect the mi...
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TOP STORY: SPIRITUALITY: Listening for God in the silence of meditation
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-After working with the homeless and drug addicted for several years, Mike Little felt overwhelmed by frustration and cynicism. Then he learned about"centering prayer,"a modern method of tapping into the ancient Christian tradition of contemplation...
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COMMENTARY: Some prisoners do change for the better
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.)
(RNS)-There was great rejoicing a few weeks ago when, after many years in prison, one...
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Church of the First Born practices a strict faith
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ALBANY, Ore. (RNS)-It is written in the Bible's book of Esther and again in Ezra that the people fasted by the river so they might merit protection from the Lord.
More than 100 members of the Church of the First Born gathered this week (April 21-27) i...
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TOP STORY: NATURAL DEATH AND ASSISTED SUICIDE: A father’s death: How God surprises us in dark
c. 1996 Christianity Today
(Wendy Murray Zoba is an associate editor of Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-One of the saddest essays I have ever read appeared in the New Yorker magazine in May 1995, written by a young man, Andrew Solomon, who was coming to terms with his mother's...
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COMMENTARY: On Good Friday, did Jesus feel like a failure?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-Jesus was fully human and fully divine. It is one of the basic tenets of Christian theology and one of the great paradoxes of history.
And durin...
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COMMENTARY: Memories of two Seders, bitter and sweet
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-I always look forward to the Passover Seder and to the stories, prayers, foods and songs of this festive family meal. But when Passover begins on Wed...
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COMMENTARY: The KKK and a little girl’s prayer
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.)
(RNS)-"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength,"wrote Da...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE: `Celestine’ sequel means more meditating
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)-Being married to the author of one of the most successful spiritual novels ever has given Salle Merrill-Redfield a high profile for promoting feminine spirituality and women's issues. "My mission is to help women feel good about t...
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