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May 1998

May 06, 1998

Rich Mullins — Enigmatic, restless, Catholic

Father Matt McGinness had never heard the song playing on his car radio, even though...

April 1998

April 29, 1998

A great man from Africa

It was easy to hear Wilfred Kwadwo Sewodie's voice each night as he moved through...

April 22, 1998

Spring cleaning at the religion desk

The advertisement featured a photo of Stonehenge, with dawn's rays summoning worshippers to embrace old...

April 15, 1998

Ten years of reporting on a fault line

Back in the 1980s, I began to experience deja vu while covering event after event...

April 08, 1998

Communion: Drawing doctrinal lines?

As President Bill Clinton recently discovered, there is no more complex and emotional issue in...

April 01, 1998

Carter’s ‘We love God’ resolution

For generations, Southern Baptists used a simply strategy to control any truly dangerous outbreaks of...

March 1998

March 25, 1998

‘Titanic’ — The ’60s as sacraments

Soon after "Titanic" opened in the United States, director James Cameron ventured into cyberspace to...

March 18, 1998

Celtic Comeback II — seeking roots in Irel

There is nothing unusual about a man with a name like Geoffrey O'Riada serving as...

March 11, 1998

Celtic comeback I — searching for roots

It happened every year in the weeks just before St. Patrick's Day."Without fail, publishers would...

March 04, 1998

The South: Heat, sweat, rust, bugs, mud and sin

Most movies about the South look like they were filmed in Southern California.What's missing is...

February 1998

February 25, 1998

What’s next for the Promise Keepers?

During the Vietnam era, Chuck Colson and others on Richard Nixon's White House staff became...

February 18, 1998

Mount Sinai on the World Wide Web

There comes a time in most Jewish debates when matters hit a final snag and...

February 11, 1998

A Baptist’s Baptist in the Oval Office

It was the right sermon to the right flock at the right time."My father was...

February 04, 1998

‘Seeker’ churches for gays and lesbians

Since "worship service" sounded stuffy, ads for the new Saturday night gathering called it a...

January 1998

January 28, 1998

The pope as Rorschach test

Papal tours are like Rorschach tests: observers tend to see what they want to see.Pope...

January 21, 1998

The truths are out there

It is the Most Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold III's custom to begin his day at...

January 14, 1998

Japan II — We are the world

TOKYO -- The Rev. Wes Calvery came to Japan 44 years ago during a wave...

January 07, 1998

Japan’s lady in white

TOKYO -- She smiles down from rows of advertisements that frame the ceilings of Japan's...

December 1997

December 31, 1997

Part II: A journalistic blind spot

The U.S. State Department churns out many newsworthy reports, a few of which make news...

December 24, 1997

Religion news ’97 — celebrity trumps saintliness

After the shock, came grief and after the grief, came waves of praise and admiration...

December 17, 1997

Is Christmas funny, or what?

Some of the rhythms are ragged, but it doesn't take a doctorate in musicology to...

December 10, 1997

A Traditional Christmas — Not

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. - History is serious business in this picturesque town that once served as...

December 03, 1997

Spirit filled or Spirit fooled?

Saving souls rarely makes news, unless somebody starts saving lots of souls in a bizarre...

November 1997

November 26, 1997

Beauty and the Priest

Katherine Landsberg's great-grandfather died in a Stalinist purge.Her grandparents were born in Russia and she...

November 19, 1997

Airing out the Promise Keepers hotel

Lyndi McCartney knows that legions of feminists rank her husband as public enemy No. 1,...

November 12, 1997

Growing pains in American Orthodoxy

Throughout his 16-city U.S. tour, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has faced a good news,...

November 05, 1997

An anonymous voice in China

Alex Buchan has a source inside the Communist Party in China.The Hong Kong-based reporter calls...

October 1997

October 29, 1997

Lambeth ’98 — The Americans are coming!

Once a decade, the Anglican Communion's bishops gather in Canterbury to celebrate the ties that...

October 22, 1997

Persecution: The power of apathy

For ages, many Christians have tried to work out the details for the apocalypse, right...

October 15, 1997

The void after the High Holy Days

It's the week after the High Holy Days and, once again, Jewish life is returning...