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		<title>Godless funerals thrive in &#8216;post-Catholic&#8217; Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Wojnar left a 32-year career in interior design to pursue a degree that wasn’t in demand: a master’s in bereavement studies. Having seen four family members die early, she wanted to understand how to adapt.]]></description>
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		<title>Congregations tend the soil and the soul with vegetable gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Morris G. Henderson wasn’t sure what do with a vacant city block of land behind his 31st Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. The church had purchased the plots, but didn’t have the funding to build a planned family life center.]]></description>
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		<title>Beneath the stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers&#8217; kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome to this sin-sick world,” the Western Union message said, “and to the challenge you have to walk in your daddy’s footsteps.”
It didn’t take long for Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, to realize that being a preacher’s kid would be both a blessing and a burden.
“I love my parents,” Graham said in a recent interview, “but there came a time where I couldn’t let my parents live my life.”]]></description>
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		<title>How Idi Amin, the &#8216;Butcher of Uganda&#8217; changed my life &#8212; for good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe, but it is true, that Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the “Butcher of Uganda” for his brutal, despotic rule while president of Uganda in the 1970s, and was possibly the most notorious of all Africa's post-independence dictators, changed my life for good.]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Greg Laurie about prayer in times of grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Greg Laurie knows a thing or two about prayer in tough times.

The honorary chairman of this year’s National Day of Prayer (May 2) says prayer was the only thing that got him through his son’s death five years ago. When fellow megachurch pastor Rick Warren lost his son Matthew to suicide, Laurie was the man he most wanted to hear from.]]></description>
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		<title>‘Death cafes’ normalize a difficult, not morbid, topic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one wants to talk about death at the dinner table, at a soccer game or at a party, says Lizzy Miles, a social worker in Columbus, Ohio.
But sometimes people need to talk about the "taboo" topic and when that happens, they might not be able to find someone who will listen, she says.]]></description>
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		<title>Khmer Rouge genocide: Justice delayed may be justice denied</title>
		<link>http://theundergroundsite.com/2013/03/11/khmer-rouge-genocide-justice-delayed-may-be-justice-denied-54905</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge, Meas Mut and Sou Met, now two-star generals in their 80s, are said to have hauled prisoners to S-21, a torture center that symbolized the horrors of a regime that wiped out nearly a quarter of the population. ]]></description>
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		<title>A faith rekindled: Pastor,columnist Ronnie McBrayer returning to Florida</title>
		<link>http://theundergroundsite.com/2013/03/03/a-faith-rekindled-pastorcolumnist-ronnie-mcbrayer-returning-to-florida-54196</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ronnie McBrayer wrote his first column, “Keeping the Faith,” for the Walton Sun in the summer of 2006, little did he know his words would be read by millions in the years to come.]]></description>
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		<title>Antiretroviral drugs sold for food in Kenya&#8217;s slums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families.]]></description>
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		<title>The gospel roots of the ‘Godmother of rock ‘n’ roll’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(RNS) Before Elvis and Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash. Before Aretha and Whitney and Beyonce. Before the blues met gospel and conceived rock &#8216;n’ roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
The first gospel superstar, Tharpe was a guitar hero in a flower-print dress whose bluesy chops and strutting style would be mimicked by countless acolytes, both white and black.
Discover the life, music and influence of the African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973) on the American Masters. RNS photo by James J. Kriegsmann courtesy PBS American Masters.
“I mean, she’s singing religious music, but she is singing rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll,” said one such devotee, Jerry Lee Lewis, of “Great Balls of Fire” fame. “She’s hitting that guitar, playing that guitar, and she is singing. I said, &#8216;Whoooo. Sister Rosetta Tharpe!’”
Though no longer a household name, Tharpe gets the star treatment in a new documentary for the PBS series &#8220;American Masters.&#8221; “Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock &#38; Roll” will be broadcast Friday (Feb. 22) on PBS in honor of Black History Month.
The documentary offers an overdue coda to an unsung influence on American music. Tharpe died in 1973, and until 2008 her Philadelphia grave lay unmarked. But without the &#8220;original soul sister,&#8221; rock might never have rolled, says Tharpe biographer Gayle Wald.
“When you see Elvis Presley singing early songs in his career, I think you can imagine that he is channeling Rosetta Tharpe,” Wald says in the PBS documentary. “It’s not an image we&#8217;re used to thinking about when we think about rock &#8216;n’ roll history. We don’t think about the black woman behind the young white man.”
Born in 1921 in Cotton Plant, Ark., by age 6 Tharpe was playing tabernacles and tent revivals with her mother, an itinerant evangelist in the Church of God in Christ. If a Pentecostal fire kindled the congregation, the talented tot often fanned the flames.
“When she came and they saw the freedom she expressed in her singing and dancing, it woke up the congregation,” says COGIC Pastor Robert Hargrove in “Sister Rosetta Tharpe.”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Katie Bell holding her daughter&#8217;s guitar. Tharpe gets the star treatment in a new documentary for the PBS series &#8220;American Masters.&#8221; “Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock &#38; Roll” will be broadcast Friday (Feb. 22) on PBS in honor of Black History Month. RNS photo by Charles Peterson courtesy PBS American Masters.
But after divorcing a pastor who treated her more like a meal ticket than a helpmate, Tharpe set out for New York City, where she joined a big band and jammed with the likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. “Singer Swings Same Songs in Church and Night Club,” reads a Life magazine headline from 1939.
Recording hits like Thomas Dorsey’s “This Train,” Tharpe became the first gospel singer to cross the divide between spiritual and secular music. She also sang saucier songs, to the chagrin of her churchgoing fans.
“It was like a bomb dropped on gospel music when she flipped,” says Ira Tucker Jr., whose father, a member of the gospel group The Dixie Hummingbirds, toured with Tharpe. “They viewed it almost like a death. &#8216;Rosetta, she’s gone, she went over.’”
Tharpe returned to her gospel roots, however, and stayed so famous that 20,000 paying fans crowded into Washington’s Griffith Stadium to watch her third wedding, in 1951. Still in her gown, the bride played electric guitar from a stage in center field.
Decca advertisement for Sister Rosetta Tharpe recordings in the late 1940s. RNS photo courtesy PBS American Masters.
Though Tharpe’s singing sold records, it was her blues-fueled guitar riffs that inspired upcoming axemen like Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Jeff Beck.
“She was a powerful force of nature, a guitar-playing singer and evangelist,” Bob Dylan has said. “There were a lot of young English guys who picked up the guitar after getting a look at her.”
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