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October 1997

October 08, 1997
WASHINGTON -- Just before last weekend's Promise Keepers rally, a coalition of feminist groups met...
October 01, 1997
Even critics of the Promise Keepers movement would have to concede that its leaders have...

September 1997

September 24, 1997
No doubt about it, the creators of ABC's "Nothing Sacred" knew which scenes would get...
September 17, 1997
It was another day in the Home for the Dying, a year before a 1969...
September 10, 1997
Four years ago, ABC's "NYPD Blue" started yet another fire fight between Hollywood and the...
September 03, 1997
No one gave it a second thought.Season after season, church buses and family minivans made...

August 1997

August 27, 1997
It's hard to keep personalities out of a global debate when the names are printed...
August 20, 1997
It's a weekday morning in Dallas and, as the office crew gathers in the coffee...
August 13, 1997
The year is 2012, as the joke goes, and two Anglo-Catholic priests in the back...
August 06, 1997
It was two or three years ago that some of the teen-sex statistics began to...

July 1997

July 30, 1997
Anyone who grew up in a parsonage knows that "PK" stands for "preacher's kid."Very early...
July 23, 1997
After the "Contact" sneak preview, viewers in the sold-out theater outside Kansas City were asked...
July 16, 1997
It's a long way from Archbishop Moses Tay's Singapore cathedral to the Philadelphia Convention Center...
July 09, 1997
In the beginning, Communist leaders tried to crush all belief in a power higher than...
July 02, 1997
HONG KONG - This weekend, thousands of Lutherans will arrive for their World Federation's ninth...

June 1997

June 25, 1997
HONG KONG - Almost every month, Bassanio Hung returns to the land that his parents...
June 18, 1997
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - They're out there, perched on family-room couches, trigger fingers poised to...
June 11, 1997
Marvin Olasky is a biased journalist.World magazine's editor freely admits that he often asks his...
June 04, 1997
In the Gospel of John, a high priest makes a stark pronouncement about Jesus that...

May 1997

May 28, 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- James Kelley doesn't believe in God - Father, Son or Holy Spirit.Kelley...
May 21, 1997
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Arlen Specter was preaching to the choir and he knew it.As...
May 14, 1997
Every month or so, Bona Malwal slips over the border into his south Sudanese homeland.There...
May 07, 1997
NASHVILLE - G. Thomas Walker is a country singer who also happens to be a...

April 1997

April 30, 1997
The more Baptist Standard editor Toby Druin thought about all the new titles he kept...
April 23, 1997
No collection of religious humor would be complete without some Unitarian jokes featuring punch lines...
April 16, 1997
When I moved to the Appalachian Mountains, I briefly worried that it would be hard...
April 09, 1997
Another Easter season has come and gone, with the usual flurry of religion stories on...
April 02, 1997
Wherever he roams on the World Wide Web, Rick Bauer finds people obsessed with computers,...

March 1997

March 26, 1997
Johann Christoph Arnold doesn't mince words when describing his mother's death.The matriarch of the Bruderhof...
March 19, 1997
At first glance, verse 22 in Genesis, chapter 18, doesn't seem all that important.God has...
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