Tom Gordon
Tom Gordon is an author at Religion News Service.
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Philosophy Teaches Kids to Listen, Think Before Making Up Their Minds
By Tom Gordon — August 9, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Gareth B. Matthews was in Japan last year talking to fifth-graders about perfect happiness. He read them a story he had written about a child absorbed in the satisfaction of scratching an insect bite. Could this define perfect happiness? “Scratching an insect bite and enjoying it so much that […]
NEWS FEATURE: Seamen’s Church Institute fights modern piracy
By Tom Gordon — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ Although the day was unseasonably warm, the Indian master of the aging Thai bulk carrier unloading at Port Newark kept an electric heater glowing near his feet in his cramped ship’s office as he drank tea with his visitors and discussed the growing menace of piracy on […]
NEWS STORY: Reed works Christian political base to re-elect Alabama governor
By Tom Gordon — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ Christian conservatives”could make the difference”for Alabama Gov. Fob James in his runoff showdown with Winton Blount, according to Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition director turned secular political consultant.”The Christian community must turn out in large numbers”for the June 30 Republican runoff between James and Blount, Reed […]
NEWS FEATURE: Seeking sainthood for a 19th-century New Yorker
By Tom Gordon — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Monsignor Robert O’Connell, pastor of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church on Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan, is not asking for a pocketful of miracles. Just two will do to advance his cause: sainthood for Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in Haiti and came to be known in […]
NEWS FEATURE: Dockside chaplain works to keep sailors’ faith afloat
By Tom Gordon — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS)-Keeping up a brisk line of chatter, the Rev. Mario Balbi tooled his big red Dodge van through the truck-choked streets of Port Newark-Elizabeth, heading for the big Taiwanese container ship, Ming America, tied up at the Maher Terminal. On this clear, wind-whipped day, the Ming America was […]
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