Christine Harvey

Christine Harvey is an author at Religion News Service.

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Confucius, Muhammad Join Jesus in La. Courthouse

By Christine Harvey — September 7, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service SLIDELL, La. _ Napoleon, Confucius, Hammurabi and more than a dozen other historical figures have joined Jesus Christ on the wall at courthouse in a bid to reassure visitors that the court wanted nothing more than to showcase people who helped to create the laws of civilized nations. Officials mounted […]

Flock Gets Say in Future of Katrina-Damaged Church

By Christine Harvey — February 2, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service SLIDELL, La. _ The walls will remain, as will the foundation. New stained glass will grace the now-empty window frames, while fountains and gardens will replace the pews that once stood on the floor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. The site will become a place for quiet reflection, […]

NEWS FEATURE: Jimmy Carter _ Still the World’s Most Famous Sunday School Teacher

By Christine Harvey — May 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PLAINS, Ga. _ A little more than 100 miles and several light-years southwest of Atlanta lies a bucolic hamlet surrounded by pine trees, pecan groves and peanut farms. A short row of turn-of-the-century buildings, including an antiques store, trading post and modern post office, form the downtown. Across the silent […]

NEWS FEATURE: Book on synagogue bombing reveals rabbi’s bravery in exposing ‘50s racism

By Christine Harvey — May 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Though five years have passed since Melissa Fay Greene’s acclaimed”Praying for Sheetrock”earned the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the author hasn’t been idle. Now she has produced”The Temple Bombing,”a look at the 1958 bombing […]
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