Religious Faith / Diversity - period ended 5.15.2006

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Politics and Economics/The Song Remembers When - Hilary Claire/Tonight, South Africa/Johannesburg/South Africa/Africa/12-May-06//... It is often uncomfortable reading. It is almost as if she is squirming as she delves into aspects of her family history - but she has to do it. She wrestles with issues of identity and admits that she is very conflicted about religion.

"Yes, there is huge ambivalence," she agrees. "Here's my father who changed his name through shame. A lot of people didn't know he was Jewish.

At his funeral, my brother said Kaddish (the Jewish memorial prayer) and people said "what! What's going on? [pause]. They didn't know. He [father] really didn't know what he was. He went to Quaker meetings and he went to synagogue."

In the book, she reflects: "And yet he remained deeply ambivalent all his life, anxious both to preserve his Jewish heritage and to deny it. So we grew up with confused and confusing messages about ethnicity, outsiders passing for Wasps, with no sense of our own history.". ...

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Friends Center/Meditation’s benefits draw diverse crowds/Columbia Daily Tribun/Columbia/MO/USA/6-May-06/Knight Ridder/... The Religious Society of Friends was founded on Christian principles, but there is a wide ... meeting days, members of the group gather at the Friends Center for ...

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Contra Costa Time/Contra Costa/CA/USA/4-May-06

Fort Wayne News Sentinel/Fort Wayne/IN/USA/3-May-06/

Religious Faith/Chastity///AFTER-PROM ALTERNATIVES/Battle Creek Enquirer/Battle Creek/MI/USA/6-May-06//... and we wanted to be on board and say that this is important," said John Grafton, student ministries pastor at Battle Creek Evangelical Friends Church. ...

Religious Faith////Woman drawn back to church after 10 years/Battle Creek Enquirer/Battle Creek/MI/USA/6-May-06//... my mid-20s. I regularly attend the Greensky Hill Indian Mission United Methodist Church, but I consider myself a Quaker.". Q: How ...

Religious Diversity/Meetinghouse/Politics and Economics/Quaker House - Atlanta/Rummy and me: CIA veteran talks about confronting defense .../Anniston Star/Anniston/AL/USA/14-May-06//... to bookend my remarks at the ACLU dinner with a presentation the day before to Pax Christi, the Catholic peace movement, and a talk on May 5 at Quaker House in ...

Religious Diversity/Meetinghouse/Olympia Friends Meeting/South Sound worship starts with United Methodist/The Olympian/Olympia/WA/USA/14-May-06//... The Methodists moved to their present home in 1968. But their old church has remained a spiritual place, first occupied by Unitarians and now home to the Quaker Olympia Friends Meeting.. ...

Religious Diversity///RECIPE FOR SERENITY/Lexington Herald Leader/Lexington/KY/USA/13-May-06//... "At one point, I was going to three services: a Catholic Mass, a Quaker meeting and then to a Buddhist Sangha," said David Shen of Mount Airy, Pa., a founding ...

Religious Diversity///A Hermit's Refuge Is Now a Writer's Muse/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/6-May-06//... As for religions, he's tried a bunch of those, too: He was raised a Baptist, became a Methodist, a Presbyterian, a Quaker, and converted to Catholicism for a ...