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Around for almost a quarter-century now, XTC is a rock band entirely impossible to pigeonhole. Though they are reputed to be an incredibly quirky but talented pop band, their songs sound like they have emerged from an entirely different era. This is proven no better than on XTC's...
Located in 434-sq.-mi. Cocke County, Newport is a short drive from two national forests with recreation areas for camping and picnicking. Throughout the county, which has a population of only 31,500, outdoor lovers can meditate on the beauty of forest, mountain peaks and clean rushing streams, or...
When Wilkinson, 55, retired after 22 nomadic years as an Army chaplain, he remembers thinking "the appropriate thing would be to get settled." Then his Episcopal bishop spotted an ad announcing that the Seamen's Church Institute, which has ministered to ocean mariners for 165 years, was expanding to the...
Wilkinson's approach to this challenge is low-key. Unlike the motorboat-riding evangelists ("ambulance chasers," he calls them) who infest some locks, Wilkinson wants only to draw the men more closely into the Christian community to which most of them already belong. He has set up an 800 number...
The proliferation of millennial doomsayers leaves mainstream denominations uneasy. The expectation of Christ's return is a fundamental tenet of Christian faith, so Pope John Paul II has been talking up the millennium for years--but as an opportunity for spiritual renewal, not as the estimated time of arrival for...