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May 2002

May 15, 2002

Not a rookie, at faith

Jim Morris came of age in a West Texas town, which means the locals didn't...

May 08, 2002

Canterbury’s ‘unique’ statement

As the college student knelt at the altar rail, another parishioner pointed accusingly and loudly...

May 01, 2002

It’s the doctrine, stupid

Rome would not issue a bishop a red hat and send him to New York...

April 2002

April 24, 2002

Romeo and Juliet, born again

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It's hard to imagine "Romeo and Juliet" with a happy ending.But...

April 17, 2002

Phillip E. Johnson, rabbi

Call them the Evangelical Alpha Males.There's Chuck Colson and James Dobson, James Kennedy and Robert...

April 10, 2002

Bluebonnets, bullets, bombs & balloons — Year 14

In their visions, key supporters of the U.S. Prayer Center kept seeing fields of bluebonnets,...

April 03, 2002

‘Joshua’ keeps on preaching

The doctor's verdict was blunt and he didn't want to quibble about details.The patient's heart...

March 2002

March 27, 2002

Smells, bells & tension at Easter

In the Anglo-Catholic tradition, the last rites of Holy Week offer a procession of images...

March 20, 2002

Next year in Jerusalem?

Germany has the world's fastest-growing Jewish population.One of Judaism's hottest schools of spiritual renewal has...

March 13, 2002

Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons, Part II

Few Catholic boys grow up to be men of the cloth without drawing inspiration from...

March 06, 2002

Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons, Part I

The Chicago news was full of sex, children and Roman collars.This wasn't part of the...

February 2002

February 27, 2002

Pat Summerall’s new life

As the final seconds tick off the game clock, players stream off the sidelines until...

February 20, 2002

A Hollywood movie to remember

No one was surprised when "A Walk to Remember" opened on Jan. 25th and drew...

February 13, 2002

Latter-day Saints and that C-word

Science fiction novelist Orson Scott Card is tired of hearing outsiders whispering about the Church...

February 06, 2002

W Bush, classic Methodist?

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Don Elrod was spending another hard day on another production line when...

January 2002

January 30, 2002

U2 bedevils the modern church

It happened at the moment in U2's Zoo TV show where Bono did his "Elvis-devil...

January 23, 2002

The Rock For Life pledge

WASHINGTON -- The music was angry and ragged, sounding something like a chainsaw gashing a...

January 16, 2002

Gaps in the Middle East mosaic

The monk had amazing news, so he wrote directly to the Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem.The...

January 09, 2002

Heeding Tolkien’s words

Frodo Baggins stands alone at the Great River Anduin, holding the one ring of power...

January 02, 2002

Second thoughts on Christmas 2001

The images flash by on television screens during every Christmas season.The pope moves slowly around...

December 2001

December 26, 2001

After Sept. 11 — What good? What evil?

There was never any question whether the hellish events of Sept. 11 would be selected...

December 19, 2001

O Christmas Palm, O Christmas Palm

The tree filled up so much of the station wagon that driving home was an...

December 12, 2001

Happy Hanukkah, no matter what

When Sabina Dener was a child in the Bronx, she knew it was Hanukkah when...

December 05, 2001

United we kneel?

God only knows how many clergy have been asked to write prayers for the spiritually...

November 2001

November 28, 2001

A mere ripple in the pews

Sometimes the number is 38 percent and sometimes it's something like 41.For decades, Gallup Poll...

November 21, 2001

The Devil and Harry Potter

There's nothing like a hot quote about Satan to grab a reader's attention."I think it's...

November 14, 2001

Songs for souls in hard times

The powers that be made sure the Country Music Association Awards started with fireworks, red-white-and-blue...

November 07, 2001

Finster — hip, hick & holy

It's hard to miss the Big Idea when an artist puts it right on a...

October 2001

October 31, 2001

America — a ‘Christian’ nation?

Any researcher who comes to the United States of America to study how people talk...

October 24, 2001

England — an alien culture

It is strange for a British shepherd to return home and confess that he feels...