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THE HALLS WERE BUZZING at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston on February 11, as actor Val Kilmer took the stage.
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THE FULLER CENTER, a nonprofit ecumenical Christian housing ministry with covenant partners in 50 locations throughout the US and 17 countries in the world, partners with low-income families to build and renovate homes.
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YU JIANRONG, a researcher with the CASS [Chinese Academy of Social Science], said many church properties were closed down during the "cultural revolution.
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ONE OF THE LESSONS churches have learned is that if you want to help disaster victims, it helps to have a plan.
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THE POWER OF PRAYER has long been controversial, but a new study in a leading psychological journal finds some of the first scientific evidence that it truly works—at least on the person doing the praying.
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DEAR FELLOW MEMBERS AND FRIENDS,
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"It Is Astonishing," wrote Karl Barth, "how many references there are in the Old and New Testaments to delight, joy, bliss, exultation, merry-making, and rejoicing, and how emphatically these are demanded from the book of Psalms to the Epistle to the Philippians.
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ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009, the Charter for Compassion was unveiled—a statement calling for greater compassion, and greater application of the Golden Rule, throughout the world.
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At the same time that Ukrainian candidates are battling each other for votes in the upcoming presidential election, Christian doctors gathering in Kiev, the country's capital, for a "Spirituality and Medicine" conference have already cast their vote—for "miracles.
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[THE FOLLOWING LETTER was a published reply to a November 27, 2009, Boston Globe editorial titled, "No prayers in health bill.