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COMMENTARY: Guns and the Moms of May
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) DURHAM, N.C. _ Our son’s baseball diamond is two blocks from the home where a community leader was recently gunned down by two youth looking to kill her sons. Halfway […]
COMMENTARY: Steroids on the Playground?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two teen-age sons and the author of five books.) (UNDATED) The Olympic Games offer us a chance to witness how years of training, practicing, sweating and persevering can mold an individual into a champion athlete. At best, they inspire us and our children […]
COMMENTARY: Rocker For Congress
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ John Rocker is a baseball player of some considerable talent who is […]
NEWS STORY: `Modern Magi’ Nearing End of Journey to the Holy Land
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank _ They camped in Bedouin tents in the lush green fields along Iraq’s Euphrates River, rode on camelback across deserts in Syria, trod in winter rain and hailstorms, and sang Christmas hymns under the stars with Arab Christians along the Jordan River. But when the group […]
NEWS STORY: `Modern Magi’ Nearing End of Journey to the Holy Land
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank _ They camped in Bedouin tents in the lush green fields along Iraq’s Euphrates River, rode on camelback across deserts in Syria, trod in winter rain and hailstorms, and sang Christmas hymns under the stars with Arab Christians along the Jordan River. But when the group […]
NEWS FEATURE: NFL’s Felonious Off-Season Renews Debate Over Role Modeling for Kids
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Mark Chmura wasn’t just a Green Bay Packers tight end, outspoken critic of Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct and United Way example of what’s supposed to be good and noble and true about the National Football League. Chmura was a child’s hero, riding 11-year-old Paul Krumberger’s bicycle between the Lambeau […]
COMMENTARY: Baseball at Fenway
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) (UNDATED) When the only open plane seats to Boston leave at 7:55 a.m, I see an opportunity: catch a Sunday afternoon game at Fenway Park, one of major-league baseball’s few […]
COMMENTARY: Guns and the Moms of May
By Tom Ehrich — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant, managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.) DURHAM, N.C. _ Our son’s baseball diamond is two blocks from the home where a community leader was recently gunned down by two youth looking to kill her sons. Halfway […]
COMMENTARY: Steroids on the Playground?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the mother of two teen-age sons and the author of five books.) (UNDATED) The Olympic Games offer us a chance to witness how years of training, practicing, sweating and persevering can mold an individual into a champion athlete. At best, they inspire us and our children […]
COMMENTARY: Rocker For Congress
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ John Rocker is a baseball player of some considerable talent who is […]
NEWS FEATURE: For Cuban Children, Life Can Be Good, Even Without Happy Meals
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ Home plate is a pothole in the middle of the street. First base is a chip on the curb. Second base is an asphalt mark in the street, and third base is a concrete patch visible amid dirt covering a driveway. Give 6-year-old Jose Carlos Prieto Sosa a […]
NEWS FEATURE: For Cuban Children, Life Can Be Good, Even Without Happy Meals
By David Briggs — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service HAVANA _ Home plate is a pothole in the middle of the street. First base is a chip on the curb. Second base is an asphalt mark in the street, and third base is a concrete patch visible amid dirt covering a driveway. Give 6-year-old Jose Carlos Prieto Sosa a […]
NEWS STORY: Pope leaves St. Louis, calls millennium a time for”spiritual renewal”
By Ira Rifkin — January 28, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ST. LOUIS _ Pope John Paul II said goodbye to this city _ and perhaps for the last time to the United States _ returning to Rome Wednesday (Jan. 27) after telling 100,000 Catholics gathered for the largest indoor Mass ever to look toward the millennium as a time for […]
COMMENTARY: She’s a great kid and her father doesn’t know it
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ One afternoon in the spring of 1990, I came home from work to find my wife and infant daughter […]
NEWS FEATURE: Taking the field with a prayer and a powerful swing
By Ed White — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ The song “Taking Care of Business” was blasting over the loudspeaker at Joe Davis Stadium on a recent hot, humid Sunday afternoon. Huntsville attorney Rod Steakley, a deacon at Whitesburg Baptist Church and volunteer chaplain for the Huntsville Stars, the Double A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, […]
