March 1, 2003 Nothing is black and white, Two Towers shows

Some have criticized the Lord of the Rings trilogy and its screen adaptation for claiming to be an adult myth and a portrayal of real life, while displaying a glaring absence of women. All the main characters, male warriors to be...

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March 1, 2003 Lenten books examine sin, salvation, spirituality

I am told that Lent and books go together for Anglicans. This is the season when they resolve to read a religious book for their soul's health. Here are some suggestions for Lent 2003. Writers, compilers and editors generally...

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March 1, 2003 Tell us about your favourite vestments

The church is a tapestry of cultures and symbolism, as evidenced by the garments worn by clergy. From button blanket copes to sumptuous velvet chasubles, to intricately embroidered stoles - they usually ...

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March 1, 2003 Forum energizes Canadian participants

Among the tens of thousands of activists at this year's conference aimed at changing the world order, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was a small Canadian contingent including a priest from Prince Edward Island, a high school principal...

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March 1, 2003 Cuban bishop retires before synod

Havana The bishop of Cuba, Jorge Perera Hurtado, has resigned effective Feb. 8, 2003. His resignation became effective less than two weeks before Cuba's annual synod, held this year in Matanzas, to decide if the Episcopal...

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March 1, 2003 Gaza church bombed

Gaza St. Philip's Episcopal Church, which is located within the Ahli Arab Hospital compound in Gaza, was hit on Jan. 24 by an Israeli missile. "We are going to raise hell," Bishop Riah Abu El-Assal of the Anglican Church in...

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March 1, 2003 Church groups rally against racism

Lewiston, Me. Members of church groups in several Maine towns staged rallies recently to celebrate religious and ethnic diversity in opposition to a white-supremacist rally. The white group, World Church of the Creator based in...

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March 1, 2003 Four churches 'on way to union'

London Four Scottish churches took "a few, first steps on the way to union" as they published in mid-January several recommendations for a united church. The Scottish Church Initiative for Union, which began work in 1996,...

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March 1, 2003 Bishop lends hand to arms protest

Bishop Richard Harries, the bishop of Oxford, posed with a rifle as part of a new campaign in Great Britain against the arms race. He appeared on the cover of January's Amnesty International magazine. He is spearheading the joint...

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March 1, 2003 Churches host shuttle mourners

Episcopalian churches in the north central area of the diocese of Texas, with two of the dead astronauts and many staff of the space program among parishioners, were directly affected by the February Columbia shuttle tragedy. ...

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