Calvin Woodward
Calvin Woodward is an author at Religion News Service.
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FACT CHECK: Anti-Muslim videos misrepresent what happened
By Calvin Woodward — November 30, 2017
(AP) — President Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, suggested the veracity of the videos wasn't a high priority amid concern over national security and strong borders.
Online Store Offers Music Sans Sex and Swearing
By Calvin Woodward — July 7, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Imagine rap lyrics without the F-bomb. Or acid rock lyrics without sex. Or reggae lyrics without drugs. Howard Rachinski imagined it all last year, when his then-10-year-old son began to get interested in music. Although Apple’s iTunes and other commercial music-download sites offered plenty of Christian and other inoffensive […]
Suicides a Disturbing Undercurrent to Abuse Cases
By Calvin Woodward — September 21, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ A week before he died, Larry Lynn Craven called his lawyer, as he often did, to say that he could no longer live with the demons of his childhood sexual abuse. “He had called me, crying and depressed and saying that he wanted to commit suicide,” Daniel […]
Vatican Ruling on Boston Assets Could Have Ripple Effect
By Calvin Woodward — August 19, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ In a preliminary decision with overtones for the bankrupt Archdiocese of Portland and other U.S. dioceses, the Vatican has told the Archdiocese of Boston that it erred in seizing and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in parish assets. The decision, acknowledged by Boston church leaders on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Y2K: Some see in timing, scope the movement of a divine hand
By Calvin Woodward — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In the Year of Our Lord 999, people feared the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, social collapse, famine and death. Our generation gets a bonus Fifth Horseman: Y2K. We live in an age steeped in apocalyptic messages, religious and secular, real and imagined: Hiroshima. Branch Davidians. Holes […]
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