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 Universe Day: First Universe Day Celebration Held January 1, 2010 in San Francisco, Join Next Universe Day Event Jan 1, 2011
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Albert Einstein said that, “you cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it.” Unfortunately, our current planetary consciousness also is not the consciousness that will solve our current planetary problems. It will take the new and larger universe-informed consciousness to do that! Universe Day (Aka New Universe Day or NewUDay,) occurs every January first. Universe Day specifically came into being to promote the larger and more solution-effective universe consciousness contained within the rapidly emerging and science-grounded New Universe Worldview. The New Universe Worldview has powerful life system critical planetary and personal benefits it is creating a great universe alignment and it is ...
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Published Jan 02, 2010 - 09:45 AM
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Integral Art: An Integral Perspective on Creativity, Art and Spirituality
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Do you want to learn how to increase your creativity and become more self-integrated? The integrative power of the arts offers us a means to identify and express ourselves in our uniqueness, as well as connect us with the universal. This new article through its integral perspective helps illuminate the relationship between creative self-expression and personal and spiritual self-integration. In it are models and frameworks and inspiring graphics through which you can both deepen and expand your understanding of why and how creativity supports the unfolding and realization of both human potential and spiritual growth. In this exciting new integral article by Audette Sophia you will also be introduced to 4 key psychological pioneers of the emerging field of Integrative Arts.
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Published Apr 07, 2009 - 03:09 AM
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OSCAR WILDE: THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
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by Oscar Del Santo
Ever since our remotest ancestors began to cover the walls of the caverns they inhabited with their primitive paintings, beautiful as they were in their simplicity, Life and Art have had at best an uneasy relationship. Unlike Art and its finished perfection, Life – as we all know from painful experience - usually botches its own narratives and in the end, despite our best efforts, never fails to disappoint. We can confidently state that our forebears drew not in order to somehow reflect reality – as it was once believed – but in order to influence it. At the dawn of civilization, they were beginning to discern what we now know for certain thanks to the man that occupies us here: that it is not Art that imitates Life but Life that imitates Art. And it is only in those unique, precious moments in which they are in unison when we are allowed to fully comprehend the wonder and the majesty of both.
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Published Feb 13, 2008 - 03:45 AM
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Reaching The Source through Art and Beauty
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This brief article explores some of the hidden aspects the life of famed renaissance artist Michaelangelo, weaving in philosophy, spirituality, psychology, and what art really is. Because we promote the vital role of art with spirituality this article offers fresh insights into this relationship from one of the most recognized artistic geniuses in history.
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Published Jan 24, 2008 - 06:18 PM
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Happy Holidays from the 5,000+ members of Universe Spirit!
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May your holiday season be blessed with love, health and success. We invite you to join our members and others all over the world for the holiday celebration of World Spirituality Day On December 31st. For more information about the celebration of World Spirituality Day
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Published Dec 24, 2007 - 03:54 PM
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The Matrix, Revisited: A New Myth Emerges in the Struggle for Authenticity
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By: Kyva Holman
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with finding ways to experience a deeper, truer self, to cultivate the elemental creational force that lies within every one of us. A serendipitous encounter with Nirvana during a meditation retreat in 2003 demonstrated to me experientially that we are so much more than physical bodies. I’d say we have the barren view of humankind as mere accident of genetic mutation to thank for our current state of affairs. Given the perilous times we live in, the need to reach for higher, more altruistic values – what German poet of freedom Friedrich Schiller called a ‘beautiful soul’ – has never been clearer.
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Published Oct 10, 2007 - 04:16 AM
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The Radical Spirituality of Generation X, Part 5: Infinity Hymn
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By Stuart Davis
Meditation and Creativity Three A.M. Though I’m lying in bed next to my zonked-out girlfriend with my eyes nearly closed, I’m wide awake. Or maybe I should say wide aware. This year, in addition to sitting meditation, I’ve started meditating in bed before and during sleep. I use simple practices focused on breathing in order to move my awareness to a place where I witness events (internal, external, physical, cerebral, et cetera) without identifying with them.
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Published Jun 22, 2007 - 08:25 PM
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The God Factor : Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People
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The God Factor : Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People
by Cathleen Falsani
Religion reporter Falsani dishes up a whimsical and absorbing collection of interviews with assorted literati and glitterati, dissecting issues of faith, ethics and personal spirituality. Since several of these profiles originated as columns in the Chicago Sun-Times, it is perhaps not surprising that many of the interviewees have a Chicago connection, like radio shock jock Mancow, Smashing Pumpkins lead Billy Corgan and Dusty Baker, the manager of the Cubs.
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Published Mar 19, 2006 - 06:41 PM
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Life wasn't always a laugh for Jim
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HIS rubber-faced antics have helped make him one of the most successful comics in the world. But life hasn't always been one big laugh for Jim Carrey.
The Hollywood star only stumbled into comedy because of a family catastrophe which still haunts him. When he was just 12 his father lost his job and times were so tough the Carrey clan were forced to sleep in a camper van.
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Published Jan 18, 2006 - 03:36 PM
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Always look on the bright side...
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Robbie's Angels, Sinatra's My Way and Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever are among the top choices of songs played at funerals. Putting aside what it says about the nation's musical tastes, is this the dumbing down of death?
Britons increasingly appear to be moving away from traditional funeral services in which religious songs provide the only musical accompaniment, and opting instead for tunes like REM's Everybody Hurts, Oasis' Live Forever and Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. The songs were among those named in a survey of funeral favourites conducted by a digital television music channel.
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Published Mar 14, 2005 - 04:59 PM
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BYU Professor says U2 more than musicians, they're philosophers
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In his History of Philosophy survey course, Brigham Young University Professor Mark Wrathall likes to quote famous thinkers to illustrate tenets of existentialism.
Sartre? Kierkegaard?
Rock band U2.
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Published Mar 14, 2005 - 04:43 PM
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Preaching Morals Via Harry Potter, Homer Simpson and Andy Griffith
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About two thousand years ago, Jesus told the parable of the weeds in the field to illustrate how wheat -- the good people of the world -will be separated from the weeds -- the bad ones.
Today, some pastors believe, the focus would be on the sheriff of Mayberry.
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Published Mar 05, 2005 - 04:05 PM
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Law to safeguard religion is no joke, warns Blackadder
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Criticising religion is a "fundamental freedom of society", a leading international comedian affirmed last night, as he headed a coalition opposing measures to outlaw the incitement of religious hatred.
Rowan Atkinson, the star of Blackadder, gave an impassioned defence of the right to lampoon religion as he joined Tory, Lib Dem, and Labour backbenchers, lawyers, and academics opposed to part of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill - which today gets its second reading.
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Published Dec 07, 2004 - 02:55 PM
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Jim Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'
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Actor Jim Carrey says a no-drugs-or-alcohol policy and a spiritual life are the things that make him feel good.
Carrey speaks frankly in a rare one-on-one interview with Correspondent Steve Kroft to be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"I was on Prozac for a long time," he tells Kroft. "It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever."
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Published Nov 19, 2004 - 02:55 PM
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Readers Seek More Religion Amid Uncertain Times
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Feeling adrift in an increasingly confusing world? Then join a growing trend among bookworms -- pick up a tome on religion or spirituality.
Books, whether on Islam, Christianity or Judaism, have become the biggest growth genre in the publishing industry fueled by greater geopolitical uncertainty, curiosity in Islam and an interest in fiction with a religious undercurrent.
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Published Oct 07, 2004 - 04:06 PM
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Wave of religion books brings women's stories to the forefront
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Ten years ago, religion professor Vanessa Ochs was busy writing a review of some new books by women about Judaism when her young daughter asked pointedly why she never wrote about men's books.
"I took her into my husband's library, and I said, 'Honey, the men are covered,'" Ochs says.
Ochs' gesture threw the neutrality of a roomful of books into question. The book collection was nothing out of the ordinary -- meaning, in part, that nearly all of the authors and key figures were men.
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Published Sep 19, 2004 - 11:19 PM
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The Dharma of the Rings: A myth for engaged Buddhism?
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The Lord of the Rings as a modern Buddhist myth?
Middle-earth is derived from Nordic and Germanic sagas, and is built on a quite unBuddhist dualism between unredeemable evil (Sauron and Saruman) and uncompromising goodness (Gandalf, Frodo etc.). The only good orc is a dead orc.
And yet - despite its European origins - The Lord of the Rings resonates with Buddhist concerns and perspectives. Evil, for example, is much more nuanced than appears at first glance. Sauron is not intrinsically evil: he too was corrupted, long ago, by his craving for the Ring. And a repeated act of compassion is crucial to the plot.
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Published Sep 19, 2004 - 10:49 PM
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Zen and the art of slam dancing: Buddhist punks find enlightenment in the pit
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If you ever find yourself at a punk rock show -- and are invested in self-preservation -- you will probably avoid what is generally known as "the pit." While the band plays a maniacal three-chord ditty set to a furious 4/4 beat, denizens of the pit engage in a venerable ritual that involves slam dancing, jumping, and thrashing around as much as their limited space allows.
But as two recent books and an increasing number of punk veterans attest, this is precisely the space that can prepare an individual to discover the same enlightenment that the Buddha did more than 2,500 years ago while sitting beneath a tree.
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Published Sep 19, 2004 - 10:29 PM
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Santana Speaks on Politics, Education
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Carlos Santana speaks about the world like a benevolent visitor from outside it.
His views may be romantic and idealistic, but the guitarist is sincere. He was honored as the Latin Grammys person of the year Monday for his dedication to education, the fight against AIDS and other social endeavors.
Santana, who won nine Grammys for his 1999 album "Supernatural," talked to The Associated Press about his political views, his upcoming CD and how to absorb accolades without arrogance.
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Published Sep 02, 2004 - 08:30 PM
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Spiritual books boom
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The search for Christian publications in tiny, out-of-the-way religious bookstores is long over. Today, that hot new read everyone is talking about may very well be a religious book stacked on the shelves of your local Barnes & Noble.
As publishing groups and research firms examine sales statistics for 2003, it's clear that religion and spirituality books emerged as retail powerhouses.
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Published Jul 21, 2004 - 05:57 PM
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Networks Seek Ratings in Higher Power
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Sitcoms are running out of laughs, cop dramas are a dime a dozen and reality shows are all starting to look alike. Now U.S. television networks are turning to a higher power in their quest for loftier ratings.
Inspired by the runaway success of religion-themed novels like the "Left Behind" series and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," broadcasters are devoting more of their prime-time schedules to shows dealing with God, faith and the afterlife.
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Published Jun 17, 2004 - 03:46 PM
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Portrait of Van Gogh as a young Bible scholar
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Vincent van Gogh is often viewed as a tortured, mentally ill person who created art out of the dark and painful abyss of his sickness.
Rarely is the Dutch artist thought of as a student of the Bible.
But to Dr. Cliff Edwards, van Gogh is "one of the significant spiritual figures of the 19th century, an artist who deserved the attention of theologians, church members and spiritual pilgrims seriously seeking life's meaning and mission."
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Published May 15, 2004 - 04:44 PM
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Media should have complete freedom to report truthfully
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When there is a problem, a crisis, the media must show that there is an alternative, says the Dalai Lama. The media should give people confidence that they can change, that they can do better, he said in an interview with the World Association of Newspapers.
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Published May 03, 2004 - 03:51 PM
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Cosmo adds spirituality to sex and shoes
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Is this a sign of the times or what? Cosmopolitan, the glossy bible of sex and shopping for the single girl, has launched a new monthly column on spirituality.
"I've come to the painful realisation that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy," Hannah Borno, the magazine's new Spirituality Editor, wrote in the March edition. "The key to true contentment lies elsewhere."
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Published Apr 07, 2004 - 05:57 PM
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A landmark concert honors Dave Brubeck's lesser-known legacy of civil rights struggle and interfaith dialogue
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Dave Brubeck is a household name -- a neat trick for any jazz musician.
 A half-century ago, he made the cover of Time magazine. Five years later, his quartet recorded Time Out, the first instrumental jazz album to sell a million copies. And Brubeck's image is quintessentially American: He grew up a cowboy-in-training, riding horses on a Concord, Calif., cattle ranch; served in Gen. George S. Patton's army in World War II; displayed radical invention with the odd-metered swing of his early hits; and, in the late 1950s, was tapped by President Eisenhower to represent Democratic values to Soviet-bloc nations. As tall and lean as ever, Brubeck is still performing at 83, and his legacy has not diminished with time.
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Published Apr 07, 2004 - 05:42 PM
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"Faith and Form" at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Saturday, March 20, 2004 — Sunday, July 18, 2004
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
This spring and early summer, the Sackler Gallery’s series of exhibitions showcasing important American collections of Japanese art highlights works of Buddhist and Shinto inspired calligraphy and painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto collection. Professors of English literature and theater, Barnet and Burto neither read nor spoke Japanese and had no particular interest in Japanese calligraphy until the moment in the early 1960s that they were struck by the beauty of an 18th century work by the Japanese Buddhist monk and scholar Jiun Onko (1718 – 1804). Bowled over by the scroll’s pleasing lines, they bought it—and so began what they call their "delightful madness," and a collection that is considered to be one of the finest in the west.
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Published Feb 26, 2004 - 06:34 PM
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Bible belters change their tune
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As Christian rockers find mainstream success, they ask, 'Why pigeonhole us?'
NEW YORK – Tune into the Grammys on Sunday night and you'll hear the name Evanescence more than a few times. The goth-rock group is nominated in five categories, including Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Best Hard Rock Performance for the song "Bring Me to Life."
On their way to the Grammys, the band has shown that its musicianship is solid but its diplomacy needs some work. In the past year, the group alienated a segment of the industry they seemed to have an affinity with - the Christian market - by insisting that its albums be pulled from Christian stores, charts, and radio stations.
What sounds like heresy is really a sign of the growing pains experienced by artists of faith who are finding their way into the mainstream in larger numbers. Wanting to reach a wider audience, musicians are pushing beyond their Christian record labels to the world of MTV, and are sometimes bypassing the religious market entirely.
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Published Feb 07, 2004 - 03:47 PM
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For Bernard Pracko, his artwork is a petition, a prayer, a meditation.
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When Bernard F. Pracko paints, he ventures within. Indeed, he has lived and worked in some of the country’s most breathtaking settings – the southwestern deserts, the southern California coast and the Rocky Mountains. Yet his artworks document an internal journey rather than a response to the external world.
For Pracko, his artwork is a petition, a prayer, a meditation. His goal – to mirror a sacred space on canvas. He follows in the steps of a century-long line of modern artists like Wassily Kandinsky who cut the moorings of representation and painted an inner reality. "I value only those artists who really are artists, that is, who consciously or unconsciously … embody the expression of their inner life," Kandinsky says in his treatise, Concerning The Spiritual in Art. Throughout his life, Pracko has shown a growing awareness of the spiritual world, including receiving a master’s degree in theology. In his artwork, Pracko taps his connection to the divine and directs it to canvas.
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Published Feb 03, 2004 - 05:52 PM
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Spiritualization of Kwanzaa sparks debate
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Kwanzaa, a nonreligious holiday created in the 1960s to celebrate African-American culture, is increasingly taking on a spiritual dimension as Christians and Muslims blend Kwanzaa traditions with aspects of their faith.
Just as the commercialism of Christmas and Hanukkah has sparked debate, so has the spiritualization of Kwanzaa, which started Friday and ends Jan. 1.
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Published Dec 27, 2003 - 02:33 PM
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From the G-spot to a God slot: Cosmo discovers religion
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UK - Cosmopolitan, the magazine that introduced women to the multiple orgasm, has appointed its first spirituality editor.
The new appointee - Hannah Borno, a 32-year-old journalist with no known religious background - will act as an alternative to the magazine's traditional agony aunt, dispensing advice to young women in a regular spiritual section that will begin next February.
Among the subjects that will be addressed in the new column are an exploration of Buddhism, the existence of guardian angels, and the reliability of mediums, as well as other "religious needs" of women.
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Published Nov 30, 2003 - 05:36 PM
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