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August 2000

August 23, 2000
Scholar Patrick Kavanaugh has heard oodles of baroque fugues and he swears that most of...
August 16, 2000
Anyone who turns on a television or goes to the movies in India cannot help...
August 09, 2000
When Sir Alec Guinness began pouring himself into a new character, the first thing he...
August 02, 2000
Bill Robinson walked through prison doors many times in the 1960s, during the bad times...

July 2000

July 26, 2000
The Rev. Billy Graham doesn't have to worry about his legacy.For millions, he remains the...
July 19, 2000
"Monogamy" isn't such a scary word, once people get the hang of redefining it to...
July 12, 2000
You know the Episcopalians are in town when insiders do double takes at announcements for...
July 05, 2000
The nightmare begins when the Rev. Joe McKeever turns and faces the bride and groom.He...

June 2000

June 28, 2000
It was Harry Potter's 13th birthday and, since he was surrounded by his occult-o-phobic relatives,...
June 21, 2000
The Romanesque sanctuary of South Main Baptist Church near downtown Houston may seem like a...
June 14, 2000
Steve Taylor and his Chagall Guevara colleagues were fired up when they arrived in Los...
June 07, 2000
Bud Welch was driving his daughter Julie-Marie home from college when a radio signal drifted...

May 2000

May 31, 2000
NEW CANAAN, Pa. -- The icon is coming to life in Father Paul Albert's imagination...
May 24, 2000
WASHINGTON -- The late, great religion writer George Cornell knew a big story when he...
May 17, 2000
Way back in the 1990s, Faith Popcorn had a sports car with a driver's seat...
May 10, 2000
On Sept. 18, 1793, President George Washington donned his Masonic apron and helped lay the...
May 03, 2000
Holy Saturday was an appropriately solemn day at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,...

April 2000

April 26, 2000
Once a week, Barrie Schwortz digs into the computer data that describe who is using...
April 19, 2000
Every now and then, messiahs slip past newspaper security personnel and pay visits to religion...
April 12, 2000
For the principalities and powers at Microsoft, these are the times that try geeks' souls.Then...
April 05, 2000
All David Morrison has to do to find out what gay activists and religious conservatives...

March 2000

March 29, 2000
JERUSALEM -- Hidden in the maze of passageways and shrines that is the Church of...
March 22, 2000
JERUSALEM -- In Pope John Paul II's first Christmas sermon, he shared his dream of...
March 15, 2000
Something mysterious happened in the wilds of Brazil when the morally bankrupt lawyer Nate O'Reilly...
March 08, 2000
The walls and shelves in Gary Bauer's new office are bare, since he only left...
March 01, 2000
LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- The Saddleback Community Church bleachers were still filling up when the...

February 2000

February 23, 2000
The more Richard Nixon talked about his faith the more his enemies complained about it.Critics...
February 16, 2000
On Friday afternoons, Tom Landry and his secretary used to work their way through hundreds...
February 09, 2000
The powers that be at Hillsdale College applauded when Chuck Colson delivered his lecture that...
February 02, 2000
For the worldwide Anglican Communion, July 29, 1974, was a day when old ties were...
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