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September 2004

September 01, 2004
It was the night before Melanie Preston's immigration flight to Israel and the 28-year-old daughter...

August 2004

August 25, 2004
Former Boston mayor Raymond Flynn doesn't see a lot of Republicans at the 9 o'clock...
August 18, 2004
It was a cheesy ad slogan sure to raise eyebrows during the summer battle for...
August 11, 2004
Tony Campolo had a specific flock in mind as he prepared his first sermon for...
August 04, 2004
No Tony Campolo sermon would be complete without his pulpit-shaking gestures of inspiration and exasperation,...

July 2004

July 28, 2004
George Gallup Jr. has been studying the numbers for a half century and nobody knows...
July 21, 2004
PHOENIX -- Anyone with the nerve to create XXXChurch.com is going to get attention, especially...
July 14, 2004
Day after day, millions of Americans who frequent pews see ghosts when they pick up...
July 07, 2004
ISTANBUL -- There are two front gates into the walled compound that protects the home...

June 2004

June 30, 2004
This was the very rare week -- third time in 17 years -- when I...
June 23, 2004
The resolution never hit the floor of the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention for debate.An effort...
June 16, 2004
When the Rev. Robert Maddox went to work as Jimmy Carter's White House faith liaison,...
June 09, 2004
As a Baptist preacher's kid who grew up in Texas in the 1970s, I had...
June 02, 2004
When it comes to media-bias surveys, God is almost as big a story these days...

May 2004

May 26, 2004
The Rev. Mac Brunson recently took his kids out and, while the movie was forgettable,...
May 19, 2004
When it comes to judging Hollywood, critics in pulpits and pews have been chanting the...
May 12, 2004
From coast to coast, United Methodists are doing the math.America's third-largest flock just survived another...
May 05, 2004
Any Top 10 list of slogans for abortion-rights signs would include "Curb your dogma" and...

April 2004

April 28, 2004
Anyone watching the annual March for Life will see all kinds of people saying all...
April 21, 2004
The Rev. Julian Rush watched the headlines as 13 United Methodist pastors in the Pacific...
April 14, 2004
The Harvard Divinity School didn't hide its feelings about "The Passion of the Christ."Mel Gibson's...
April 07, 2004
Catholic writer Carl Olson was struggling as he led his audience through the maze of...

March 2004

March 31, 2004
The lobby contains what security experts call a "mantrap."Guards monitor these bomb-proof doors, along with...
March 24, 2004
Depending on who is counting, somewhere between 5 million and 50 million Americans are on...
March 17, 2004
Every decade or so Baylor University endures another media storm about Southern Baptists, sex and...
March 10, 2004
WACO, Texas -- Looking out his window, athletic director Ian McCaw has been watching workers...
March 03, 2004
It's hard to watch Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" without concluding that the...

February 2004

February 25, 2004
Classics scholar John Granger will not be joining the throngs of other Christian conservatives as...
February 18, 2004
It is a sight that British vicars fear more than an empty collection plate.The business...
February 11, 2004
The ancient rabbinic text is clear about the punishment for those who twisted sacred law...
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