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Christmas book is a treasure trove of history, symbols, songs and stories

Review | Christmas, Celebrating the Christian History of American Symbols, Songs and Stories, by Angie Mosteller This 472-page treasure trove of Christmas lore is a virtual encyclopedia of American Christmas traditions, including sheet music for 20 favorite Christmas hymns and...

Sidebar: A visit with an Orthodox Holy Man

By Roberta Sardell Special to Silicon Valley Christian Examiner This is a side article to "Silicon Valley woman conducts Orthodox mission to Romania" At the monastery of Sihastria we met Fr. Bartholomew. Determining that we were Americans, he...

Silicon Valley woman conducts Orthodox mission to Romania

Though Romania, a southeastern European country bordered on the east by the Black Sea and along its other borders by the Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria, was ruled by an oppressive Communist dictatorship from 1945 to 1989, it has...

Helping agencies face overwhelming task as holidays close in

It's sad but inevitable that the holiday season beginning with Thanksgiving this month and continuing through Christmas and New Years brings the only attention many people pay each year to needs of local homeless and hungry people. But...

Ministry activities bring spotlight back to Colorado Springs

Sometimes referred to as the "evangelical Jerusalem" because of the concentration of evangelical Protestant parachurch ministries headquartered there, Colorado Springs has often brought national attention to the city at the gateway to Pikes Peak and the home of...

English judge equates 'green ideology' with religion for legal purposes

Some opponents of "green" ideology will not be surprised by a comparison made between the way of life advocated by Al Gore and organized religion by an English judge. Justice Michael Burton ruled that environmentalism can be considered...

Early signs of the season show up in Catholic League news release

Signs of "the season" are already in the department stores, the play list at Starbucks, and television commercials. And, just as early, a news release from Catholic League president Bill Donohue dated November 3 claims "the 2009...

New York Archbishop uses his blog to attack 'anti-Catholic' NY Times

A day after this department looked at Roman Catholic and other religious communities' creative use of websites on the worldwide web, a story in the New York Post on November 3 reports on the use of a personal blog...

Online 'church' seen as latest hot evangelizing tool

"The World Wide Web has become the hottest place to build a church," AP religion writer Rachel Zoll wrote in her November 1 weekend report, which cites dozens of such projects already building audiences or perhaps more aptly...

Christians still at odds over Halloween

As this feature is beginning on Halloween, it seems right to address a long-standing controversy among Christians: what to do with Halloween or what to do on Halloween? Halloween has a unique mix of pagan and Christian influences in...

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Christmas book is a treasure trove of history, symbols, songs and stories

Sidebar: A visit with an Orthodox Holy Man

Silicon Valley woman conducts Orthodox mission to Romania

Helping agencies face overwhelming task as holidays close in

Ministry activities bring spotlight back to Colorado Springs

English judge equates 'green ideology' with religion for legal purposes

Early signs of the season show up in Catholic League news release

New York Archbishop uses his blog to attack 'anti-Catholic' NY Times

Online 'church' seen as latest hot evangelizing tool

Christians still at odds over Halloween

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