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class="tNormal">Harvard University, founded centuries ago as a fundamentalist Christian college, may soon require a religion course of all undergraduates.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-050801-2502r">Bob Edgar to leave NCC at year's end</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 05:25PM</div><div class="tNormal">The Rev. 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class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 11:26AM</div><div class="tNormal">A North Carolina research group says U.S. pastors are an unusually isolated group of people.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-110308-5939r">German bishops urge Muslims to be calm</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 11:25AM</div><div class="tNormal">German bishops described as unjust the spin that many Muslim leaders made of part of Benedict XVI's address at the University of Regensburg last month.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-105240-6901r">Baptist colleges earn distinctions</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 11:24AM</div><div class="tNormal">Forty-three member institutions of the International Baptist Association of Colleges and Universities have been listed among the nation's best.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-081549-8209r">Christian Coalition moves left</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 10:31AM</div><div class="tNormal">A U.S. group once synonymous with the Religious Right has named as president a pastor who is becoming known as a critic of the Religious Right.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-080922-5112r">Christians and Jews and Yom Kippur</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 10:30AM</div><div class="tNormal">Yom Kippur, the most holy day of the Jewish year, was Monday, a time for Jews to fast, pray and attend synagogue.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061004-080341-7856r">Ecumenical music festival in NYC</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 10:29AM</div><div class="tNormal"> </div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061003-034509-3023r">Regret over abortions fuels demonstration</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 06:17PM</div><div class="tNormal">A group formed by Episcopalians and Catholics is organizing a unique pro-life demonstration in New York.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061003-113113-6649r">NCC head warns against militarizing theology</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 06:15PM</div><div class="tNormal">Two top U.S. Christian leaders are denouncing efforts to draft God into one side of a war.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/view.php?StoryID=20061003-015937-7602r">Presbyterian help for small chuches</a></div><div class="Subhead"> </div><div class="dateline">UPI Religion & Spirituality</div><div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 06:15PM</div><div class="tNormal">The Presbyterian church is helping provide pastoral leadership for small congregations who may not have any pastoral leader.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div> </td> <td width="2%" align="center"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625im_/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/images/spacer.gif" width="100%" height="100%"></td>  <td width="49%" align="left"> <div class="SectionHeadlines">Commentaries</div> <div class="tNormal" align="center"> <em>All opinions expressed belong to the writers<br> alone, and are not necessarily shared by      <br> UPI Religion & Spirituality Forum.                     </em></div> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20061005082625im_/http://www.religionandspiritualityforum.com/images/spacer.gif" height="11" width="100%" border="0"><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-125627-7732r">Sexual addiction's spiritual roots</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: A Small Medium At Large</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Carla L. Rueckert</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 12:56PM</div><div class="tNormal">Why do people get hooked on sex?</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-112050-2733r">Ramadan thoughts on intimacy with God</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Truth & Beauty</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Ayesha Malik Nasson</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 11:24AM</div><div class="tNormal">It is when we reach out and acknowledge our need of God that we first begin to develop a more intimate relationship with Him.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-125956-9700r">On a desolate hill in the rain, I met me</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Accidental Pilgrim</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Mary Anne Reese</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 01:00AM</div><div class="tNormal">I hated that curvy, broken part of Highway 8 that leads to Rabbit Hash, Kentucky. I felt alone, and I hated my life too. How do you keep going, I wondered, when God seems totally absent?</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-043023-4793r">Seeking clues to one's vocation</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: New Houses From Old Bricks</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Rebecca Schlatter</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 04:30PM</div><div class="tNormal">All I ever needed to know about seeking, I learned by the time I was nine. And I've been looking for ways to share the treasure ever since.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-123656-8705r">If you meet Jesus on the road</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: The Kitchen Table</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">David Den Beste</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 12:37AM</div><div class="tNormal">It took the rabbi's cruel death and some one teaching again these ideas for them to understand in a new way.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061004-121116-3164r">Boys will be boys</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Sex And Society</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Janice Shaw Crouse</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 12:11AM</div><div class="tNormal">Members of the "greatest generation," my father and uncles were "little aggression machines" when they were boys.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061002-115116-7226r">Contemplative life on K Street?</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Spirit Inclusive</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">George Gilmore</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 03:55PM</div><div class="tNormal">Francis and Dominic took monasticism into the world. Ignatius was a city boy. Jesus went into the desert alone. But Jesus did not stay in the desert.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061003-110242-2283r">A loving dominion over all creation</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Roll Down Like Water</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Rebecca Johnson</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 12:24AM</div><div class="tNormal">God expects us to be faith stewards of his resources. The U.S. is going to forgive $20 million of Guatemala's debt to pay for conservation efforts in their nature preserves. Good for us, good for God, good for Earth.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061002-084153-6026r">You and me, Babe</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Shooting Dead Horses</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Jean-Claude Gerard Koven</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 12:18AM</div><div class="tNormal">Soulmates. Frankly, I'd condemn the quest for the one and only true love as hogwash, except for one thing: it isn't.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061003-121028-2964r">Let's talk marriage</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Bluebonnet</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Annette Bridges</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 04 2006 12:24AM</div><div class="tNormal">It's often a political, social and religious hot topic. It's often discussed as what it could be or should be or isn't. But marriage to me is...</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20060831-080617-1088r">The railroading of Yeshua Hanotzri</a></div><span class="Subhead">Guest Commentary</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Vynette K Holliday</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 12:24AM</div><div class="tNormal">Human nature is nothing if not consistent.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061002-060750-5171r">The beauty of darkness</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: So There I Was</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Peggy Senger Parsons</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 12:17AM</div><div class="tNormal">God does not appear to care about the same things I care about.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061002-062010-8019r">Mother Earth's breast</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: Always In Season</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Donna Henes</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 12:18AM</div><div class="tNormal">We suckle the grain, repenting for each cut of the scythe. Autumn's harvest has always been taken at the very edge of life and death.</div><div class="seperator"> </div></div><div class="pHead2"><div class="tHead30"><a href="view.php?StoryID=20061002-064349-1784r">The same wind blows on us all</a></div><span class="Subhead">Commentary: One Light, Many Lamps</span><div class="dateline">By <span class="byline">Phyllis Edgerly Ring</span></div> <div class="dateline">Oct 03 2006 12:25AM</div><div class="tNormal">World peace is not only possible but inevitable. 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