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COMMENTARY: An evangelism that misses the point
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
UNDATED _ I could tell a church convention was in town.
My parking garage was filled suddenly with Cadillacs and Suburbans, as well as shiny 15-passenger vans advertising specifi...
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COMMENTARY: Christianity in the hands of `historic preservationists’
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a pastor, writer and software developer living in Winston-Salem, N.C.)
SALISBURY, N.C. _ On the last Sunday of a tumultuous year when religion and politics strangely converged, I take a long walk through the historic downtown of this county seat town...
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COMMENTARY: New book examines the tumultuous Reagan era
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The recently published"Reagan: The Man and His Presidency: The Oral History of an Era"by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober (Houghton Mifflin) is an imp...
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COMMENTARY: Women are profoundly changing the American rabbinate
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee).
UNDATED _ Eve and Robbie Weiner, my daughter and son-in-law, are completing their third year at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
Even w...
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COMMENTARY: Polishing the rough spots
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of"Zen at Work."He is the founder of Meditation at Work, an awareness training program for businesses.)
UNDATED _ One morning, early in his monastic training and many year...
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COMMENTARY: The enduring gift of a father’s love
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two sons.)
UNDATED _ It is hard to explain what I lost when my father died. It is even more difficult to explain how much of him remains with me, even five years after his death.
As with many women, my...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: The quotable Kathleen Norris
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In"Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith"(Riverhead), writer Kathleen Norris gives a fresh spin to some ancient Christian terms.
Prayer
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
Doubt
Pe...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Senate fails to overturn Clinton's veto of abortion ban
(RNS) The Senate, voting 64-36, failed again Friday (Sept. 18) to overturn President Clinton's veto of a ban on the controversial late-term abortion procedure known by its opponents as"partial-birth abortion....
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NEWS SIDEBAR: Recipes from White House chef turned pastor
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Charlie Booth, who served as a chef in the Nixon White House, has written a cookbook,"Confessions of a White House Cook: Truth in the Nixon Kitchen."Here are four recipes from the book:
STUFFED, FRESH CURED HAM
This was President Nixon's favorit...
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NEWS STORY: NCAA fashions compromise on religious accommodation rule
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The National Collegiate Athletic Association has fashioned a compromise aimed at defusing a controversy over some religious schools that object to playing championship games on Sundays.
At a Chicago meeting of the NCAA's Division I board Tuesday (Aug. 11),...
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