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COMMENTARY: The end of competition
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
UNDATED _ I waited a full week after Christmas before daring to enter Best Buy.
Even so, I found the computer department crawling with customers and no sales help...
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COMMENTARY: Are you a liberal or a conservative Catholic?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph,"published by St. Martin's Press.)
UNDATED _ The secular and the relig...
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COMMENTARY: Confessions of a repentant home repair junkie
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ I have promised my husband it is over.
For the sake of my marriage, for the love of my children, it will never happen again.
After last weekend I have learned my lesson. I am a changed woman, a r...
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COMMENTARY: Too many babies still die
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and serves on the board of World Vision International.)
UNDATED _ On Tuesday (Oct. 12), baby No. 6 billion was born into this world. His or her birth was mostly a public relations event, a symbolic occasion to r...
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COMMENTARY: Grisham’s testament to his faith
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ John Grisham writes what he knows.
The former attorney has built bestsellers using the law as his structure and lawyers as villains and heroes.
Grisham is also a man of faith wh...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: Christian at Harvard says paper nailed him to cross
c. 1999 Religion News Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ If Jewish students are overrepresented at Harvard University, they are way overrepresented at the Harvard Crimson.
``It's been a very Jewish newspaper, disproportionately, since the 1970s,'' says Noah Oppenheim, a junior from Tucson...
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NEWS STORY: Report details abuse of missionaries children
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The screams from the first- and second-grade classroom could be heard throughout Mamou Alliance Academy.
The teacher would fly into a rage _ sometimes toppling desks and children _ for infractions as small as a child not knowing how to prono...
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COMMENTARY: Is it too easy to be a Catholic these days?
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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NEWS STORY: House rejects school prayer amendment
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ After some five hours of debate, the House of Representatives on Thursday (June 4) failed to approve by the required margin a controversial constitutional amendment strongly backed by Christian conservatives that would have allowed organize...
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NEWS FEATURE: Preaching as a `precise tornado’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, for the last 28 years the minister at Harvard University's Memorial Church, has become an American expert on preaching.
Gomes, 55 (he turns 56 on May 22), was ordained in the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. a...
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