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NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church becoming church for all in Algeria

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service ALGIERS, Algeria _ Their singing rolls across the empty pews of Notre Dame D'Afrique, mournful strains of West African spirituals weaving through European hymns. For an hour every Friday morning, the tiny congregation gathers with a missionary priest to forget their...
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COMMENTARY: Sunny on the outside, grim on the inside

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) LONDON _ Yes, I'll admit it, I was a tourist on Sunday. On my first trip to London, I walked as far as my legs and feet could endure. For the...
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COMMENTARY: The sour fruit of self-exaltation

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. He lives in Durham, N.C.) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ The Parents' Weekend football game at University of North Carolina isn't a pretty picture. But everything else lives up to i...
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COMMENTARY: Visiting St. Peter’s

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.) ROME _ I should have stuck with my original plan: wander over to the Tiber, gaze across the winding river at St. Peter's, and then walk on. But curiosity got the better of me. Ho...
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COMMENTARY: Being there: A learning center for street life

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ There is a vacant lot near my home where children and drug dealers gather to play basketba...
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COMMENTARY: Violence invades the sanctuary

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ In 1974, Alberta Williams King, the mother of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King...
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COMMENTARY: Don’t forget the individual in urban ministry

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ From time to time I am asked _ often with incredulity _ why I became involved in ministry...
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COMMENTARY: The prisoner’s wife

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ Among the half-dozen or so books I am currently reading is asha bandele's"The Prisoner's W...
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COMMENTARY: Inclusive speech and right relations

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Rosemary Radford Ruether is a feminist theologian teaching at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. She is one of the"Voices of Women in Religion"columnists for RNS.) UNDATED _ Feminists have insisted on language that explicitly recognizes wome...
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COMMENTARY: How should the church witness to culture?

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Robert M. Parham is executive director of the Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics.) UNDATED _ A hairline fracture runs across the traditional divide between mainline Protestant and conservative evangelical churches. It could widen into a major fault line over...
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