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  CYBERCOLUMN: I dress for success_duncan_82503

  Posted 8/25/03
  

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  I dress for success

  By John Duncan

  I am sitting here under the old oak tree, watching the early morning sun rise, preparing for the day ahead and longing for Cambridge, England.

  Just this morning, I biked on a golf course near the lake. The ducks waddled and paddled along. Birds chirped, fluttering effortlessly into the morning air. Workers mowed the grass, trimming and cutting the golf greens in preparation for a day of bogeys, sand traps and “fore!” I stopped on a wooden bridge near the golf course and watched an orange sun slowly rise to greet the day.

  John Duncan

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  CYBERCOLUMN: Bigger, stronger, wiser…_vancleve_82503

  Posted 8/25/03
  

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  Bigger, stronger, wiser…

  By Donna Van Cleve
  

  I admit it. After a steady diet of troubling news events of which I have little or no control, the urge to stick my head in the sand is very tempting. I can watch or listen or read about it only so much, and then I have to focus on something else, or the uneasiness will pull me under.

  When things start to overwhelm me, I tend to cry at the drop of a hat. Not long ago, the trigger was the movie “Shenandoah” with Jimmy Stewart. I had seen it years ago, but with my feeble memory, it was like watching a brand-new movie all over again. It hooked me before I recalled it had some tragic scenes. When they came, the dam broke.

  Donna Van Cleve

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  CYBERCOLUMN: What it takes_simpson_82503

  Posted 8/29/03
  

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  What it takes

  By Berry D. Simpson
  

  The fundamental question for guys is, “Do I have what it takes?”
  

  Everything we do comes down to that question.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• CYBERCOLUMN: If a tree falls_cosby_82503

  Posted 8/29/03
  

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  If a tree falls

  By Terry Cosby
  

  She was just over the southern end of Mary’s house. Actually, where else would you expect to find her at this point in history? It was a clear, cool evening, and it would be my last chance to see her for 284 years. So I took a long look.
  

  She looked good. At least I think she did. I’m not really sure how a planet, even our neighbor Mars, is suppose to look. But she was bright and seemed a little embarrassed to be so intimate with us. Maybe that’s why she seemed to blush a bit. Wow, only 35.6 million miles away! She seemed to me to be as close as Venus. I’m a bit more used to Venus, our morning “star.” Rumors have it women are from there. But this Mars lady had all my attention for a few minutes last night. Good neighbor Mary came out and we marveled a moment.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Commentary: Where do the Ten Commandments belong?_walker_90803

  Posted: 9/2/03
  

  Commentary:
  Where do the Ten Commandments belong?

  By J. Brent Walker

  In the emotionally volatile debate over whether “Roy’s Rock” should stay in the Alabama State Judicial Building, one supporter of the display vowed, “they’ll never be able to remove it from our hearts.”
  

  That is precisely the point.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Navy chaplains’ suit expanded to include 2,000_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  Navy chaplains' suit expanded to include 2,000

  By Ward Sanderson

  Stars & Stripes

  WASHINGTON (BP)–A federal judge recently expanded the scope of a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Navy, further whipping the tempest that threatens to force the sea service into reviewing the promotions of every evangelical in its Chaplain Corps since 1977.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• This chaplain keeps ministry on tap_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  This chaplain keeps ministry on tap

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  BEAUMONT–What is a ninth-generation Baptist doing in a beer distribution center?

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  Alabama monument removed; judge under scrutiny_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  Alabama monument removed; judge under scrutiny

  By Robert Marus

  ABP Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON (ABP)–Despite promises of civil disobedience from hundreds of protesters, authorities removed a stone Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of an Alabama courthouse Aug. 27 without incident.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• COMMENTARY: Love, not angry slogans, will convince Muslims of God’s truth _bridges_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  COMMENTARY:
  Love, not angry slogans, will
  convince Muslims of God's truth

  By Erich Bridges

  Declaration recently spotted on a T-shirt at a mall food court:

  Abortion is murder.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  COMMENTARY: U.S. overlooks Africa’s ‘twin towers’_stearns_90803

  9/5/03
  

  U.S. overlooks Africa's 'twin towers'

  By Richard Stearns

  The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States proved the mettle of the American people. We are strong. We are brave. We are a people of faith. And we are generous and compassionate.

  Few of us will be called upon to prove our strength by rushing into a burning building. Fewer still to prove our bravery by commandeering a hijacked airplane. But all of us can demonstrate our compassion by helping widows and orphans in need.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  Congress returns to face church-state issues_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  Congress returns to face church-state issues

  By Robert Marus

  ABP Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON (ABP)–As Congress returns to session this month from its summer recess, a host of church-state issues await on the agenda–from gay marriage to school vouchers.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Death row exonerations reach new high_90803

  Posted: 9/5/03
  

  Death row exonerations reach new high

  WASHINGTON (RNS)–Nine death row inmates have been exonerated this year, the highest number in 15 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

  Three men who spent a combined 67 years on death row were freed in late July, bringing to 111 the number of inmates who have been released from death row since 1973.

  All charges were dropped against Timothy Howard and Gary Lamar James, childhood friends who were convicted in 1977 in Ohio on robbery and murder charges, after new evidence was presented in Howard's case and James passed a polygraph test. Both men were on death row before Ohio's capital punishment law was overturned in 1978.

  10/14/2003 - By John Rutledge