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June 1997

June 04, 1997
In the Gospel of John, a high priest makes a stark pronouncement about Jesus that...

May 1997

May 28, 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- James Kelley doesn't believe in God - Father, Son or Holy Spirit.Kelley...
May 21, 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Arlen Specter was preaching to the choir and he knew it.As...
May 14, 1997
Every month or so, Bona Malwal slips over the border into his south Sudanese homeland.There...
May 07, 1997
NASHVILLE - G. Thomas Walker is a country singer who also happens to be a...

April 1997

April 30, 1997
The more Baptist Standard editor Toby Druin thought about all the new titles he kept...
April 23, 1997
No collection of religious humor would be complete without some Unitarian jokes featuring punch lines...
April 16, 1997
When I moved to the Appalachian Mountains, I briefly worried that it would be hard...
April 09, 1997
Another Easter season has come and gone, with the usual flurry of religion stories on...
April 02, 1997
Wherever he roams on the World Wide Web, Rick Bauer finds people obsessed with computers,...

March 1997

March 26, 1997
Johann Christoph Arnold doesn't mince words when describing his mother's death.The matriarch of the Bruderhof...
March 19, 1997
At first glance, verse 22 in Genesis, chapter 18, doesn't seem all that important.God has...
March 12, 1997
It's fitting that journalists couldn't even agree on where New York Cardinal John O'Connor was...
March 05, 1997
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein admits that he laughed early and often during the Steve Martin comedy...

February 1997

February 26, 1997
Clergy quickly learn this law: Most worshippers want to sit in familiar pew, open a...
February 19, 1997
While making her early rounds, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has let everyone know that...
February 12, 1997
The distressed parishioner had a sad, even pathetic, story to tell, one the Rev. C....
February 05, 1997
As Cardinal Joseph Bernardin entered the Loyola University Cancer Center he found his path blocked...

January 1997

January 29, 1997
A long time ago, in a movie multiplex not so far away, a child looked...
January 22, 1997
As governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton spent many of his Sunday mornings in the choir...
January 15, 1997
While he often played the role of scientific high priest, the late Carl Sagan didn't...
January 08, 1997
In the beginning there was candidate Jimmy Carter, facing waves of reporters demanding an answer...
January 01, 1997
Moments after celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first Chinese bishops consecrated in Rome, John...
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