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January 2000

January 26, 2000

Amish choices in Y2K

HINKLETOWN, Pa. -- It was hard to see William and Minnie Stauffer in their traditional...

January 19, 2000

Got those born-again feelings, again

Journalists rarely get to use terms such as "White House," New Age" and "seance" in...

January 12, 2000

Just another voice on the Metro

WASHINGTON -- The elderly black woman began preaching moments after the train left the Capitol...

January 05, 2000

Intolerant Christians in the public square

As they lurched through a blinding snowstorm over Tokyo, the Rev. Billy Graham watched as...

December 1999

December 29, 1999

A rose for 1999

Moments before the fateful lunch break, a Columbine High School classmate saw Rachel Joy Scott...

December 22, 1999

A Christmas mystery — 12 days worth

Three decades ago, Father Harold Stockert's passion for history sent him digging through stacks of...

December 15, 1999

The century — death by ‘quasi-religion’

The images are unforgettable, from the faces of the victims to the face of the...

December 08, 1999

Y2K Top 10 — Luther meets the printing press

The question is impossible to answer, but that hasn't kept those who study religion and...

December 01, 1999

Yes, there is a St. Nicholas

Father Constantine White was ready when his young son asked the big December question: "Is...

November 1999

November 24, 1999

Should a Christian do a nude scene?

One by one, the summer flicks have faded from theater screens, entering the brief purgatory...

November 17, 1999

A Catholic zeal for souls?

It wouldn't be a proper baptism rite without someone taking a photograph of the priest...

November 10, 1999

Take the ‘family’ — please.

The following quotations come from modern leaders in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Confucian traditions....

November 03, 1999

Harry Potter and free will, Part II

Harry Potter had just triumphed in another face-to-face showdown with the forces of evil --...

October 1999

October 27, 1999

Harry Potter — Is he safe?

It was the kind of proclamation that mayors sign all of the time - with...

October 20, 1999

The drama of John Paul II

As his helicopter turned toward the Denver skyline and the Rocky Mountains, Pope John Paul...

October 13, 1999

Catholic education (wink, wink)

Elizabeth Fiore didn't expect Georgetown University's freshman orientation program to include a condom demonstration.When the...

October 06, 1999

Hey Bauer! WWBD?

No matter where the young Billy Graham went, his evangelistic team always seemed to arrive...

September 1999

September 29, 1999

Home-schoolers: The Anti-Woodstock Generation

It seemed like a good idea at the time.Why not produce, thought conservative activist Paul...

September 22, 1999

Travels with the battling baroness

ATLANTA -- As so often happens during her risky flights into Southern Sudan, Baroness Caroline...

September 15, 1999

Mysterious echoes of gunshots

It's hard to read any of the sermons that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....

September 08, 1999

Generation J

As the child of a devoutly secular Jewish home, the last place Lisa Schiffman expected...

September 01, 1999

Light a candle for Y2K

Researchers who study America's "civil religion" usually end up studying sound bites by pious politicians,...

August 1999

August 25, 1999

Journalism — an awkward calling

CHICHESTER, England -- Terry Anderson walked through refugee camps in Lebanon, filling his eyes, ears,...

August 18, 1999

God is in the church-state details

Vice President Al Gore has faith in the power of faith, as long as faith-based...

August 11, 1999

Chechen bandits with empty souls

Dimitri Petrov quickly realized that the men who shot out the tires on his humanitarian-aid...

August 04, 1999

Caught in the Columbine crossfire

Heidi Johnson didn't volunteer to fight in America's culture wars, she got caught in the...

July 1999

July 28, 1999

A monk finds mercy, one step at a time

The last thing Father Andrew remembers from the afternoon of July 31, 1998 was asking...

July 21, 1999

Faith? An issue of human rights?

WASHINGTON -- The reports pour in via a handful of understaffed and overlooked religion news...

July 14, 1999

Just another story about Sudan

WASHINGTON -- A story can be inspirational without having a happy ending.Activist Jim Jacobson of...

July 07, 1999

Worship ’99: Buy incense now…

The worshippers may gather in a candle-lit sanctuary and follow a liturgy of ancient texts...