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December 2002

December 11, 2002
NEW YORK -- Screenwriter Philippa Boyens gets a tired look in her eyes when she...
December 04, 2002
Father Mark Pearson can see trouble coming as he walks the sidewalks of Boston.He can...

November 2002

November 27, 2002
Researchers at Hartford Seminary's Institute for Religious Research began with seven different lists of mosques...
November 20, 2002
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Tim J. McGuire is a baseball fan, but that wasn't why...
November 13, 2002
It was sometime during the hearings into whether Judge Priscilla Owen was fit to serve...
November 06, 2002
In the beginning, there were the Jesus People.They had long hair and short memories and...

October 2002

October 30, 2002
There are still churches left in this land where folks gather every Wednesday night for...
October 23, 2002
They show up for dinner, help with homework, lead the rituals of bedtime and park...
October 16, 2002
NASHVILLE -- As a boy in upstate New York, Father Bob Dalton learned how to...
October 09, 2002
Sometimes the bishop calls the priest and sometimes the priest calls the bishop.But one way...
October 02, 2002
While flipping through TV channels the other night, VeggieTales writer Mike Nawrocki discovered an absolutely...

September 2002

September 25, 2002
It is Martin Marty's custom to rise at 4:44 a.m. for coffee and prayer, while...
September 18, 2002
To the faithful, there was nothing new about hearing an ancient litany in Greek.But it...
September 11, 2002
During the 1990s, pollster George Barna released many reports showing that Americans were growing less...
September 04, 2002
The ritual could not have been more familiar, but Rabbi Howard Shapiro found it almost...

August 2002

August 28, 2002
As the woman reached the stage, the musicians behind Elvis Presley could see that she...
August 21, 2002
From the pulpit, the typical pastor can see all kinds of people whose ears will...
August 14, 2002
Church people have a name for what happens when young believers get romantically involved with...
August 07, 2002
Strange things happen when it gets hot in Moscow, Idaho.In the summer of 1998, three...

July 2002

July 31, 2002
In the halls of Anglican power, the leader of the tiny Church of Wales is...
July 24, 2002
Just north of Columbia, S.C., there is an unincorporated community called Mitford.As far as author...
July 17, 2002
Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings rarely cover religious rites, but they would certainly...
July 10, 2002
For two millennia, if you knew a church's name then you knew something about the...
July 03, 2002
Instead of creating a mere educational program, the Baptist minister set out to write something...

June 2002

June 26, 2002
No wonder Anakin Skywalker seems so confused.Every time the Jedi apprentice turns around, a spiritual...
June 19, 2002
The clergy sexual abuse statistics were staggering.Local reports from angry, hurt and humiliated laypeople were...
June 12, 2002
For years, Father Joseph F. Wilson studied the U.S. Catholic clergy register, following the career...
June 05, 2002
WASHINGTON -- There are rumblings from western Afghanistan that the office for the "Promotion of...

May 2002

May 29, 2002
It was a logical question for the Dalai Lama to ask his Jewish visitors, yet...
May 22, 2002
The Gate of Humility into the Church of the Nativity is just over four feet...
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