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First lady could be Chicago kids' last hope
As a young girl growing up in the South, I looked forward to the fourth Sunday of August. We called it "Homecoming" at my church in Hogansville, Ga. That was when folks who had moved away from our small, rural town seeking better opportunities in...
Tags: CBS Corp., Rituals, South Shore, Norfolk Southern Corporation, McCormick Place
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Orlando Fringe review: 'Misa Flamenca'
As a dance, flamenco is about style: The fire in the eyes, the exquisite vestments, the dramatic posturing. Orlando's Flamenco del Sol troupe has shrewdly noticed the similarity between the Spanish dance and organized religion. The result, "Misa...
Tags: Dance, Rituals, Entertainment Events, Religion and Belief, Entertainment
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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Fine Artists, Guggenheim Museum, Science and Technology
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Review: A shattered land tries to pull back together in 'Joe Turner'
The setting for August Wilson's magnificent "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is a boardinghouse in 1911 Pittsburgh, but the spiritual location is a crossroads between the ghostly past and the forbidding future, slavery and freedom, despair and hope. The...
Tags: Rituals, Arts and Culture, Glynn Turman
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Immigration reform divides Republicans
WASHINGTON — The immigration reform bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has deeply split the Republican minority even as lawmakers prepare to take the first votes on the proposal Thursday. Alabama's Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a...Tags: Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Lawyers
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Blessings hand hospital workers spiritual support
The chaplains at the Chicago area Adventist hospitals know the staffs' hands that dispense medication, perform surgeries and mop floors are crucial to carrying out the hospitals' mission. That's why, this month, many of those nurses, surgeons and...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Rituals, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing
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Orthodox Easter arrives, with bells, chants and rose petals
A moment as mysterious as the sacred idea it celebrates – the crucified Christ's decent into Hades before his resurrection – arrived Saturday morning at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in a cascade of rose petals and a cacophony of bells,...
Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, The Happiest News!, Easter, Rituals, Christianity
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My Word: Prayers from diverse faiths for our nation
Thursday is the National Day of Prayer. It's not a public holiday. We won't get a paid day off from work. The mail will still be delivered. And banks will be open as usual. So what exactly is this special day? The National Day of Prayer is merely an...Tags: Islam, Rituals, Religion and Belief
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Boy Scouts proposal on gays makes everybody unhappy
Adelle M. Banks writes for the Religion News Service that boths sides are unhappy with a proposal by the Boy Scouts to accept gay scouts, but not gay leaders: Conservative and liberal religious leaders may not agree on much, but both are expressing...
Tags: Clubs and Associations, Minority Groups, Protestant Convention, Boy Scouts of America, Social Organizations
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L.A. Boy Scouts propose admitting gay leaders as well as Scouts
A Boy Scouts of America proposal to admit gay boys as members while continuing to bar homosexual adults as leaders is not a good way to settle a longstanding controversy that has roiled the youth organization in recent months, a Los Angeles Scouts...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Los Angeles International Airport, Protestant Convention, U.S. Supreme Court, Social Issues
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With memorials and silent moments, Boston victims are honored
MEDFORD, Mass. — She was remembered for her smile. Outside of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Krystle Campbell's second-grade teacher reached into her black purse Monday and pulled out a class picture from April 1991 — 21 sweet, gawky children,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Antonio Villaraigosa, Michael Muskal, Lu Lingzi, Christianity
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Krystle Campbell funeral: Bomb victim recalled as 'always smiling'
MEDFORD, Mass. — She was remembered for her smile. Outside of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Krystle M. Campbell’s second-grade teacher reached into her big black purse Monday and pulled out a class picture from April 1991 -- 21 sweet, gawky...Tags: Rituals, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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