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Author says Amish thrift makes sense by saving cents
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) The old Lorilee Craker would have picked up a couple of $16 children's shirts without a second thought, ordered a $20 pizza without checking what's in the fridge, and sent out her bills a few days late.
The Amish-makeover Lorilee peruses garage sales and find...
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SIDEBAR: Unitarian Universalist Principles
(RNS) The Unitarian Universalist Association, while eschewing religious tenets, espouses seven shared principles:
-- The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
-- Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
-- Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth...
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Leaving God out of Pledge tees off Ohio congressman
WASHINGTON (RNS) NBC's decision to edit the word "God" from the Pledge of Allegiance during last weekend's coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament has teed off an Ohio congressman, who wants the U.S. Golf Association to reconsider its relationship with the television network.
"When...
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Miss. woman named world’s longest-serving church organist
MOSS POINT, Miss. (RNS) For the past 69 years, Ida Mae Cumbest has been the pianist and organist at Caswell Springs United Methodist Church -- a tenure that qualifies her as the world's longest-serving church organist.
Cumbest has played at Caswell since 1942, which prompted her son,...
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Vatican closes monastery that attracted aristocrats, dancing nun
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has closed the monastery of a fourth-century Roman basilica on account of "liturgical and financial irregularities" that included performances by a nun who had once been a lap dancer.
The Vatican cited "behavior not consonant with the monastic life" at t...
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Couple faces trial as Ore. cracks down on faith-healing church
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) A couple whose reliance on faith healing threatened their daughter's eyesight will go on trial this week, one day after state lawmakers moved to strip legal protection for parents who rely on faith healing.
The case returns the spotlight on Followers of Christ...
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New books herald world’s most famous Good Book
(RNS) Anyone who watched the recent royal wedding in Westminster Abbey heard words and phrases found in the King James Version of the Bible: "vouchsafed" and "thee" and "asunder."
It was a fitting setting as the world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Bible commissioned by K...
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Could another Bible unite Christians like the KJV?
(RNS) 1604. England. Rebellious Puritans, establishment Anglicans and Roman Catholics are at each other's throats. A new king fears his reign will combust in a powder keg of religious strife and anti-monarchical fervor.
So King James I does what any sensible monarch would do: He order...
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Jewish newspaper erases Clinton from photo
(RNS) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn deleted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from aWhite House photograph of top officials monitoring the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
The Yiddish-language Der Zeitung removed Clinton and Audrey Tomason, a top counter-terr...
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BBC says Muslims selling tainted holy water from Mecca
LONDON (RNS) A BBC investigation is claiming that holy drinking water from Mecca is contaminated with arsenic and is being sold illegally to Muslims at shops in Britain.
The BBC report on Thursday (May 5) said its investigation uncovered that "Zamzam" water has been found bottled in l...
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