During his tour in Vietnam, Angelo Charles Liteky, a Roman Catholic chaplain, often traveled with the forward line because he thought it was important to know what the boys out front were feeling. That way, when they broke down, he […]
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekPoor “Misha.” Caught in a terrible custody war, this 12-year-old boy from Washington state has become a cause c
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekHave you ever stopped to consider how much it costs to heat
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekLast Monday, as Christians around the globe prepared for Holy Week and Easter, the Italian-American artist Cosimo Cavallaro was leading a car chase through the streets of New York City. With reporters trailing close behind, Cavallaro drove a refrigerated truck
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekUnlike Judaism, Islam is passed down through the father. The Qur’an even grants a Muslim man permission to marry a Jewish or Christian woman, so long as she is chaste. “A believing maid is better than an idolatrous woman,” the
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekWhat would Jesus download? One of the hottest sites on the Internet is GodTube.com, the Christian answer to YouTube. It’s a goofy, fascinating window into the world of Christian youth. There’s a clip of Ray Comfort, the popular evangelical preacher,
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekWhat has Rich Cizik done to make Jim Dobson so mad? Cizik has, for 26 years, been the Washington-based lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, a job one would hardly call high profile. Over the past year, though, he
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekSteve Prothero is the kind of professor who makes you want to go back to college. During an hour lecture of his Boston University course “Death and Immortality,” 200 students sat rapt last week as his train of thought led
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ReligionOn the day of John F. Kennedy’s funeral, Robert Kennedy wrote his eldest child, who was 12, a short note: “Dear Kathleen,” it said, “you seemed to understand that Jack died and was buried today. As the oldest of the
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekIn Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people’s houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky soil. Tova Bracha has always known that
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