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January 2000

January 26, 2000
HINKLETOWN, Pa. -- It was hard to see William and Minnie Stauffer in their traditional...
January 19, 2000
Journalists rarely get to use terms such as "White House," New Age" and "seance" in...
January 12, 2000
WASHINGTON -- The elderly black woman began preaching moments after the train left the Capitol...
January 05, 2000
As they lurched through a blinding snowstorm over Tokyo, the Rev. Billy Graham watched as...

December 1999

December 29, 1999
Moments before the fateful lunch break, a Columbine High School classmate saw Rachel Joy Scott...
December 22, 1999
Three decades ago, Father Harold Stockert's passion for history sent him digging through stacks of...
December 15, 1999
The images are unforgettable, from the faces of the victims to the face of the...
December 08, 1999
The question is impossible to answer, but that hasn't kept those who study religion and...
December 01, 1999
Father Constantine White was ready when his young son asked the big December question: "Is...

November 1999

November 24, 1999
One by one, the summer flicks have faded from theater screens, entering the brief purgatory...
November 17, 1999
It wouldn't be a proper baptism rite without someone taking a photograph of the priest...
November 10, 1999
The following quotations come from modern leaders in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Confucian traditions....
November 03, 1999
Harry Potter had just triumphed in another face-to-face showdown with the forces of evil --...

October 1999

October 27, 1999
It was the kind of proclamation that mayors sign all of the time - with...
October 20, 1999
As his helicopter turned toward the Denver skyline and the Rocky Mountains, Pope John Paul...
October 13, 1999
Elizabeth Fiore didn't expect Georgetown University's freshman orientation program to include a condom demonstration.When the...
October 06, 1999
No matter where the young Billy Graham went, his evangelistic team always seemed to arrive...

September 1999

September 29, 1999
It seemed like a good idea at the time.Why not produce, thought conservative activist Paul...
September 22, 1999
ATLANTA -- As so often happens during her risky flights into Southern Sudan, Baroness Caroline...
September 15, 1999
It's hard to read any of the sermons that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....
September 08, 1999
As the child of a devoutly secular Jewish home, the last place Lisa Schiffman expected...
September 01, 1999
Researchers who study America's "civil religion" usually end up studying sound bites by pious politicians,...

August 1999

August 25, 1999
CHICHESTER, England -- Terry Anderson walked through refugee camps in Lebanon, filling his eyes, ears,...
August 18, 1999
Vice President Al Gore has faith in the power of faith, as long as faith-based...
August 11, 1999
Dimitri Petrov quickly realized that the men who shot out the tires on his humanitarian-aid...
August 04, 1999
Heidi Johnson didn't volunteer to fight in America's culture wars, she got caught in the...

July 1999

July 28, 1999
The last thing Father Andrew remembers from the afternoon of July 31, 1998 was asking...
July 21, 1999
WASHINGTON -- The reports pour in via a handful of understaffed and overlooked religion news...
July 14, 1999
WASHINGTON -- A story can be inspirational without having a happy ending.Activist Jim Jacobson of...
July 07, 1999
The worshippers may gather in a candle-lit sanctuary and follow a liturgy of ancient texts...
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