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NEWS STORY: JUDAISM: Survey points out contradictions in Conservative Judaism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) A new survey of Conservative Jews shows that more than two-thirds reject traditional Judaism's insistence that only the children of Jewish mothers can be called Jewish at birth, regardless of the father's religious identity.
Yet the same sur...
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COMMENTARY: Surprises of Christmas herald a light that never fades
c. 1996 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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COMMENTARY: Saving souls on the subway a moving experience
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
UNDATED _ The Metro train roared by the assembled morning commuters, screeching to a stop as we inched our way toward the edge of the platform. A door o...
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TOP STORY: TRANSLATING GENESIS: Stephen Mitchell: Glimpsing Genesis through a Zen lens
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BERKELEY, Calif. _ Having made his reputation as a translator of sacred texts, Stephen Mitchell usually has no trouble expressing himself.
But as he recounts the inception of an upcoming Bill Moyers series on the Book of Genesis _ in which Mitchell pa...
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Explorer’s myth of `lost tribe of Israel’ helped feed Hutu-Tutsi woes
c. 1996 Religion News Service
BUJUMBURA, Burundi _ Inside the small cottage on the mission grounds that he shares with his wife Eleanor, Carl Johnson regales a visitor with tales of anything from African colonial history to his boyhood days growing up in Jacksonville, Fla.
His con...
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TOP STORY: AN HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH: An historic `Freedom Church’ marks two centuries of pain
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ There was a time in the Methodist Episcopal Church that black members had to wait until white congregants took Communion before they could approach the altar.
Black preachers were given limited opportunities to speak _ occasionally to other...
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TOP STORY: FALWELL REALIGNS: Long an independent, Jerry Falwell joins Southern Baptist fold
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a longtime independent Baptist preacher, announced this week he has become a Southern Baptist.
Falwell said the decision to align his 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., with the Southern Bapti...
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Now Falwell says he’s not a Southern Baptist
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ After proclaiming a week ago his solidarity with the Southern Baptist Convention and making a $1,000 contribution to a new Southern Baptist group in Virginia, Jerry Falwell now says he does not consider himself a Southern Baptist.
At a Wed...
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Now Falwell says he’s not a Southern Baptist
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ After proclaiming a week ago his solidarity with the Southern Baptist Convention and making a $1,000 contribution to a new Southern Baptist group in Virginia, Jerry Falwell now says he does not consider himself a Southern Baptist.
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