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c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons.) UNDATED _"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of...