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May 1998

May 06, 1998
Father Matt McGinness had never heard the song playing on his car radio, even though...

April 1998

April 29, 1998
It was easy to hear Wilfred Kwadwo Sewodie's voice each night as he moved through...
April 22, 1998
The advertisement featured a photo of Stonehenge, with dawn's rays summoning worshippers to embrace old...
April 15, 1998
Back in the 1980s, I began to experience deja vu while covering event after event...
April 08, 1998
As President Bill Clinton recently discovered, there is no more complex and emotional issue in...
April 01, 1998
For generations, Southern Baptists used a simply strategy to control any truly dangerous outbreaks of...

March 1998

March 25, 1998
Soon after "Titanic" opened in the United States, director James Cameron ventured into cyberspace to...
March 18, 1998
There is nothing unusual about a man with a name like Geoffrey O'Riada serving as...
March 11, 1998
It happened every year in the weeks just before St. Patrick's Day."Without fail, publishers would...
March 04, 1998
Most movies about the South look like they were filmed in Southern California.What's missing is...

February 1998

February 25, 1998
During the Vietnam era, Chuck Colson and others on Richard Nixon's White House staff became...
February 18, 1998
There comes a time in most Jewish debates when matters hit a final snag and...
February 11, 1998
It was the right sermon to the right flock at the right time."My father was...
February 04, 1998
Since "worship service" sounded stuffy, ads for the new Saturday night gathering called it a...

January 1998

January 28, 1998
Papal tours are like Rorschach tests: observers tend to see what they want to see.Pope...
January 21, 1998
It is the Most Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold III's custom to begin his day at...
January 14, 1998
TOKYO -- The Rev. Wes Calvery came to Japan 44 years ago during a wave...
January 07, 1998
TOKYO -- She smiles down from rows of advertisements that frame the ceilings of Japan's...

December 1997

December 31, 1997
The U.S. State Department churns out many newsworthy reports, a few of which make news...
December 24, 1997
After the shock, came grief and after the grief, came waves of praise and admiration...
December 17, 1997
Some of the rhythms are ragged, but it doesn't take a doctorate in musicology to...
December 10, 1997
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. - History is serious business in this picturesque town that once served as...
December 03, 1997
Saving souls rarely makes news, unless somebody starts saving lots of souls in a bizarre...

November 1997

November 26, 1997
Katherine Landsberg's great-grandfather died in a Stalinist purge.Her grandparents were born in Russia and she...
November 19, 1997
Lyndi McCartney knows that legions of feminists rank her husband as public enemy No. 1,...
November 12, 1997
Throughout his 16-city U.S. tour, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has faced a good news,...
November 05, 1997
Alex Buchan has a source inside the Communist Party in China.The Hong Kong-based reporter calls...

October 1997

October 29, 1997
Once a decade, the Anglican Communion's bishops gather in Canterbury to celebrate the ties that...
October 22, 1997
For ages, many Christians have tried to work out the details for the apocalypse, right...
October 15, 1997
It's the week after the High Holy Days and, once again, Jewish life is returning...
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