Barbara Miller
Barbara Miller is an author at Religion News Service.
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Man Takes Up His Cross and Follows Jesus Cross-Country
By Barbara Miller — June 9, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service PALMYRA, Pa. _ “Cross Carrier Chuck” was last seen making his way across central Pennsylvania on his seven-year trek across the country, carrying a 10-foot cross and surviving on the kindness of strangers while spreading the good word. After a stop at Laudermilch’s Meats outside Annville, where shoppers bought lunch […]
NEWS FEATURE: Deadline draws near for Nostradamus prophecy
By Barbara Miller — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ His supporters say he predicted the rise of Napoleon and Hitler with uncanny accuracy and foresaw events, including the space shuttle disaster and math-processing problems with the Pentium computer chip. His detractors say he was a mediocre 16th century astrologer with no special gifts, whose vague writings have […]
NEWS STORY: Bioethicist’s views generate controversy at Princeton
By Barbara Miller — July 25, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service PRINCETON, N.J. _ Princeton University has hired a bioethicist best known in this country for his views on animal rights but who has described people with birth defects and some disabilities as “defective,” leading to national attention on his controversial writings on euthanasia. Australian Peter Singer, 52, has been named […]
NEWS FEATURE: `Faith-based’ schools touted for nation’s inner cities
By Barbara Miller — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA _ John DiIulio’s favorite teaching assignment isn’t at Princeton University, where he’s a professor of politics. It’s at a Gesu School, a Roman Catholic elementary school in the heart of a depressed inner-city neighborhood. Here at the Gesu, DiIulio teaches American government to eighth-graders, using the same textbook he […]
NEWS FEATURE: Faith helps Maureen Kanka deal with life after Megan
By Barbara Miller — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service HAMILTON, N.J. _ Just hours after learning that her daughter Megan had been murdered, Maureen Kanka opened her door and, she said, unexpectedly encountered God on her front lawn. “That Saturday evening, there were hundreds of people here,” Kanka said,recalling the gathering of those who had helped search for Megan. […]
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