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NEWS FEATURE: Christian companies make beeline for online

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Christian companies big and small, old and new are flocking to cyberspace to sell books, Bibles, music and videos. Within the last few years established religious publishers, distributors and retailers as well as newer Internet commerce ventures have launc...
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NEWS FEATURE: Secular music exploring the spiritual, transcendent

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As the millennium is winding down, a number of popular recording artists are getting serious about the meaning of life, and this fall there's been a bumper crop of bestselling albums brimming with spiritual and philosophical themes. In late September, Nine...
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COMMENTARY: Lest we forget: The current state of black America

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ A few years ago, while watching the docudrama,"Separate but Equal,"I suddenly found myself overwhelmed with emotion. As an all-star cast _ including Sidney Poitier, Cleavon Little and Burt Lancaster _ re-enacted the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Cour...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian singer Michael W. Smith finds he needs church

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ After a harried year of recording, writing, composing and touring, Michael W. Smith the husband and father found Michael W. Smith the Christian superstar needed a break. So instead of spending the recent winter weeks playing to tens of thousands of pe...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian singer Michael W. Smith finds he needs church

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ After a harried year of recording, writing, composing and touring, Michael W. Smith the husband and father found Michael W. Smith the Christian superstar needed a break. So instead of spending the recent winter weeks playing to tens of thousands of pe...
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NEWS SERVICE: `Prince of Egypt’ storms Israel, attracts educators

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _"The Prince of Egypt"may be just a movie, but DreamWorks' animated version of the Biblical Exodus story is getting a thumbs up from Israeli educators, who hope to utilize the film as a teaching tool. The movie, which opened in Israel in late February in t...
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NEWS STORY: A restrained, constrained millennial celebration in Jerusalem

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When the Holy Land enters the new millennium, brightly lit boats full of New Year's Eve revelers will be sailing on the Sea of Galilee. Two thousand doves symbolizing peace will be released into the moonlit skies above the city of Bethlehem, where Jesus wa...
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NEWS FEATURE: Singing the Book of Psalms to build interfaith harmony

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ It's the one book of the Bible that Jews and Christians alike have turned to over the ages as a source of inspiration for liturgical song. Now, Gershom Ha Cohen Tzipris is hoping the Book of Psalms can also offer a spiritual meeting ground for peoples of b...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian comic turns from talk to music

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service HOUSTON _ Christian comedian Mark Lowry sees himself as a storyteller, not a comic. His recent CD,"But Seriously,"is music, not talk, the kind of album Lowry always wanted to make. And, best of all, his mama loves it."She likes it; she really does. She sings on it,"Lo...
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NEWS FEATURE: Polka Mass strikes chord with churchgoers

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ At St. Wendelin Catholic Church here, parishioners and visitors packed in the sanctuary prepared to receive the Eucharist as they sang ``The Lord's Prayer'' to the tune of the Frankie Yankovic classic ``Blue Skirt Waltz.'' The sound of accordions playing...
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