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Travelers' blessings
An interview with Rick Steves
by Amy Frykholm
Rick Steves on the spirituality of traveling: People have a lot of fear, and the flip side of fear is understanding. When you travel to new places you understand more, so you fear less. Then you can love people as a Christian should. The less you travel, the more likely that media with a particular agenda can shape your viewpoint. Those of us who travel are a little more resilient in weathering the propaganda storms that blow across the U.S. media.
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Meditations for each week of the lectionary year:
Altitude adjustment
The Word shines in the darkness
by Heidi Neumark
Aliens welcome
Borderless hospitality and radical stewardship
by Heidi Neumark
The listening place
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Creedal relevance
by M. Craig Barnes
Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults
by Christian Smith, with Patricia Snell
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
by John Witte Jr.
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
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The paradox of polygamy
by Philip Jenkins
On music
by Louis R. Carlozo
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Tiller's murderer faces life in jail
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Forgive Haitian debt, religious leaders urge
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Genuine to the core
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Handel this: Handel's Messiah is most often sung during the Christmas season, but Handel intended it to be performed during Holy Week. In his lifetime the work was seldom sung in churches but was sung in playhouses, where opera was performed. When the influence of Puritans in 18th-century England led to the banning of operas during Lent, oratorios like the Messiah became a popular alternative form of entertainment (Frank Burch Brown in Interpretation, January).
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