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October 1997

October 08, 1997

The Promise Keepers Catch 22

WASHINGTON -- Just before last weekend's Promise Keepers rally, a coalition of feminist groups met...

October 01, 1997

Catholics, evangelicals & Promise Keepers

Even critics of the Promise Keepers movement would have to concede that its leaders have...

September 1997

September 24, 1997

The American Catholic Church on TV

No doubt about it, the creators of ABC's "Nothing Sacred" knew which scenes would get...

September 17, 1997

Mother Teresa — not a ‘nice’ person

It was another day in the Home for the Dying, a year before a 1969...

September 10, 1997

Disney II: Protest or dissect?

Four years ago, ABC's "NYPD Blue" started yet another fire fight between Hollywood and the...

September 03, 1997

Disney I: Did the Baptists go far enough?

No one gave it a second thought.Season after season, church buses and family minivans made...

August 1997

August 27, 1997

China, Dobson and the Grahams

It's hard to keep personalities out of a global debate when the names are printed...

August 20, 1997

Religious liberty is messy

It's a weekday morning in Dallas and, as the office crew gathers in the coffee...

August 13, 1997

Another departs the empty church

The year is 2012, as the joke goes, and two Anglo-Catholic priests in the back...

August 06, 1997

True Love vs. the culture

It was two or three years ago that some of the teen-sex statistics began to...

July 1997

July 30, 1997

For my father, a pastor

Anyone who grew up in a parsonage knows that "PK" stands for "preacher's kid."Very early...

July 23, 1997

Making spiritual ‘Contact’

After the "Contact" sneak preview, viewers in the sold-out theater outside Kansas City were asked...

July 16, 1997

Cracks in the Anglican Communion

It's a long way from Archbishop Moses Tay's Singapore cathedral to the Philadelphia Convention Center...

July 09, 1997

Hong Kong II: There’s More to Life than $

In the beginning, Communist leaders tried to crush all belief in a power higher than...

July 02, 1997

Silence and Tension in Hong Kong

HONG KONG - This weekend, thousands of Lutherans will arrive for their World Federation's ninth...

June 1997

June 25, 1997

China On the Front Burner

HONG KONG - Almost every month, Bassanio Hung returns to the land that his parents...

June 18, 1997

Fox, Families and ‘safe TV’

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - They're out there, perched on family-room couches, trigger fingers poised to...

June 11, 1997

World war II: How biased is too biased?

Marvin Olasky is a biased journalist.World magazine's editor freely admits that he often asks his...

June 04, 1997

The Bible and Journalism

In the Gospel of John, a high priest makes a stark pronouncement about Jesus that...

May 1997

May 28, 1997

A Proud Skeptic in the Pew

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- James Kelley doesn't believe in God - Father, Son or Holy Spirit.Kelley...

May 21, 1997

Preaching to the Anti-Persecution Choir

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Arlen Specter was preaching to the choir and he knew it.As...

May 14, 1997

Breaking the Silence on Sudan

Every month or so, Bona Malwal slips over the border into his south Sudanese homeland.There...

May 07, 1997

A Musician Stuck in Orthodixie

NASHVILLE - G. Thomas Walker is a country singer who also happens to be a...

April 1997

April 30, 1997

The Southern Baptist Name Game

The more Baptist Standard editor Toby Druin thought about all the new titles he kept...

April 23, 1997

A Unitarian Generation Gap

No collection of religious humor would be complete without some Unitarian jokes featuring punch lines...

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...