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ELCA apologizes for persecution of Anabaptists: Lay foundation for international cooperation
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has formally apologized for Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists in 16th-century Europe....
Methodist court upholds right to bar gays from membership: Rejects attempts to evade 2005 decision
The United Methodist Church’s top court has rejected two separate attempts by regional conferences to evade a 2005 decision that allows pastors to bar gays and lesbians from joining the church....
Religious leaders in Arab nations launch AIDS response group: Network of Muslims and Christians collaborate
More than 300 religious leaders have signed up to form a new network of Muslim and Christian groups from 20 Arab countries, responding as a “united force” to the mounting prevalence of HIV/AIDS in...
Nepal to probe role of living goddess: Inquiry ordered into possible exploitation
The Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered an inquiry into whether the centuries-old tradition of worshiping a virgin girl as a “living goddess”—called the Kumari Devi—has led to the exploitation of yo...
Vatican speaks out on Muslim women's veils: Joins chorus of European leaders
Top Vatican officials have added their voice to a chorus of European leaders critical of Muslim women who wear veils that conceal their faces....
Just war: Second thoughts on Iraq
Like many Americans, I decided in early 2003 that a war with Iraq was increasingly necessary....
Slow-motion grace: Shaped by faith and hope
Toward the end of Wendell Berry’s novel Jayber Crow, the title character reflects on his life as a barber in a small Kentucky town: “I am a man who has hoped, in time, that his life, when po...
Ethics reform bills may restrict or ban travel gifts: Lobbying opportunities during travel at issue
When Representative Walter Jones (R., N.C.) made a one-day trip to speak to a Columbus, Ohio, congregation in 2005, he and aide William Moore didn’t have to spend time in airports waiting for conne...
Muslim neighbors: A French monk's testimony
A few days after Christian de Chergé’s death on May 21, 1996, his mother opened a sealed letter and read what he had written three years earlier....
Toward home: Zephaniah 3:14-20
Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote, “The human spirit is incapable of ridding itself of an abiding sense of homelessness.” It is as if we never feel quite at home anywhere but are always seeking that sweet place. We yearn for the day when the distance between time and eternity will be finally and fully bridged; until then, we understand exile.
Double vision: Luke 1:39-55
The glad song Mary sings to her cousin Elizabeth in Luke’s Gospel functions like a lighted magnifying glass. It illumines, making possible the discernment of something that was there all the time, but difficult to see without aid. Mary sings of the whole new order of things that God is creating all around us, one in which the hungry are filled with good things and the rich, who have unwisely filled up on so much that does not satisfy, are emptied so that they can have their real hungers met at last.
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Toward home: Zephaniah 3:14-20
Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote, “The human spirit is incapable of ridding itself of an abiding sense of homelessness.” It is as if we never feel quite at home anywhere but are always seeking that sweet place. We yearn for the day when the distance between time and eternity will be finally and fully bridged; until then, we understand exile.
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David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered, a biography of Vince Lombardi, delivers another biography of a...
