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April 1997

April 16, 1997

My e-mail: Silly, Sobering or Both

When I moved to the Appalachian Mountains, I briefly worried that it would be hard...

April 09, 1997

Is TV about to get Religion

Another Easter season has come and gone, with the usual flurry of religion stories on...

April 02, 1997

The Web, the Cults and the Church

Wherever he roams on the World Wide Web, Rick Bauer finds people obsessed with computers,...

March 1997

March 26, 1997

Death, Eternal Life and Easter

Johann Christoph Arnold doesn't mince words when describing his mother's death.The matriarch of the Bruderhof...

March 19, 1997

The Torah, John Grisham and the Mall

At first glance, verse 22 in Genesis, chapter 18, doesn't seem all that important.God has...

March 12, 1997

Major Abortion News in a Pulpit

It's fitting that journalists couldn't even agree on where New York Cardinal John O'Connor was...

March 05, 1997

Hollywood, TV Ratings and Religion

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein admits that he laughed early and often during the Steve Martin comedy...

February 1997

February 26, 1997

Preparing for Prayer Book 2006

Clergy quickly learn this law: Most worshippers want to sit in familiar pew, open a...

February 19, 1997

There’s More to Religious Liberty than Worship

While making her early rounds, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has let everyone know that...

February 12, 1997

Adultery: Grace or Gossip?

The distressed parishioner had a sad, even pathetic, story to tell, one the Rev. C....

February 05, 1997

The Architect of American Catholicism

As Cardinal Joseph Bernardin entered the Loyola University Cancer Center he found his path blocked...

January 1997

January 29, 1997

George Lucas, the Force and God

A long time ago, in a movie multiplex not so far away, a child looked...

January 22, 1997

Truth is Marching?

As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton spent many of his Sunday mornings in the choir...

January 15, 1997

Carl Sagan: TV Evangelist

While he often played the role of scientific high priest, the late Carl Sagan didn't...

January 08, 1997

Jimmy Carter and the Politics of Sin

In the beginning there was candidate Jimmy Carter, facing waves of reporters demanding an answer...

January 01, 1997

Oil, Blood, Money and Ink

Moments after celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first Chinese bishops consecrated in Rome, John...

December 1996

December 25, 1996

November 1996

November 27, 1996

Hanukkah’s Alight with Ironies

It was a simple, if mischievous, way to open one of those holiday stories that...

November 20, 1996

Stay? Leave? Mainline Tensions, Pt. II

Jim Pinto was hooked on drugs and shacked up with his girlfriend when his life...

November 13, 1996

Stay? Go? Four Mainline Camps, Pt. I

One of the first decisions David and Jean Leu Stanley faced when they got married...

November 06, 1996

John Paul vs. Darwinian Orthodoxy

No one will ever accuse Pope John Paul II of being a master of the...

October 1996

October 30, 1996

Penthouse, the Bible & ECUSA

Penthouse isn't known for its religion coverage.Still, the Episcopal Church establishment went into damage- control...

October 23, 1996

Requiems on the Religious Right

Once again, it's time for Religious Right strategists to sing requiems while the chaplains of...

October 16, 1996

Pastors in Glass Houses

Every month, 1,300 U.S. pastors are fired or forced to resign.Nearly 30 percent of ministers...

October 09, 1996

New Church-State Storm in Colorado

Looking at a map, it's obvious that warm, volatile masses of religiosity rolling out of...

October 02, 1996

Billy Graham and the Age of Altar Calls

Billy Graham always reminds his listeners that they don't know if they'll live another day...

September 1996

September 25, 1996

Persecution? What Persecution?

The dominoes began falling when Haik Hovsepian-Mehr dared to start a global campaign to save...