Items of Interest

August 11, 2003

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with contributions from Andrew Mills, Eileen E. Flynn, Rosanne B. Wickman, Maureen Sieh
"Buried Somewhere deep behind the chutes at the Calgary Stampede, there is a place where rodeo cowboys go to pray.
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July 28, 2003

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with contributions from Howard Cohen, Janet Souter
"A GROUNDBREAKING SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS at the University of California, Davis, suggests that counting your blessings leads to improved physical and mental functioning.
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July 21, 2003

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with contributions from Haroon Habib, Kathrin Chavez, Brandon Ferguson
"The 'Third South Asian Free Media Conference,' which concluded [May 28, 2003], adopted a declaration emphasizing the need for achieving democratic order and realizing the responsibility of media persons to struggle collectively for democracy and freedom of expression.
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July 14, 2003

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with contributions from John Mark Eberhart, Bill Lodge, David Hammer, Scott Hannaford
"At BookExpo America , held this year at the Los Angeles Convention Center [in early June], there was plenty of talk about the importance of spirituality in Americans' lives.
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July 7, 2003

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with contributions from Doug Mandelaro, Susan L. Taylor
"Some Women Want A Deeper Role in their faith communities but face obstacles—the so-called 'stained-glass ceiling.
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June 30, 2003

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J. Michael Parker with contributions from Todd Spangler
"As part of a long-term program to usher in change in the mindset of convicts serving sentences in jails, [the] Maharashtra [state] government [in india] has introduced a series of lectures by prominent spiritual leaders to be delivered in various prisons, the state's junior minister for prisons, Kripashankar Singh, said.
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June 23, 2003

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with contributions from Douglas Todd, Jack Broom, Paul Kalina, Joyce Mulama
"GREATER VANCOUVER must be teeming with people who are hard-nosed, rationalistic, positively cynical, and antireligious.
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May 26, 2003

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with contributions from Ann Winterholter, Richard Dymond, Tim Rutten
"NO MATTER WHAT A PERSON MAY BELIEVE ABOUT WHO JESUS IS —a good man, moral teacher, prophet, God—the fact remains that he set a high standard for healing in life and death: the miracle.
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