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Montana is to be envied for its great Great Plains, its purple mountain majesties, and its celebration of color. The state motto is colorfully Oro y Plata, gold and silver....

While making nursing home and hospital calls one day, I visited several people who were on oxygen. A slim green hose ran from a machine to each person’s nostrils, piping in pure air to make his or her breathing easier. In each instance we prayed the Lord’s Prayer together in preparation for Holy Communion, our hands joined and our voices speaking together. I was struck by the strength with which each of these people prayed. Their bodies were weakened in many ways, yet the prayer flowed vigorously from their lips, as if the prayer as well as the oxygen was helping them breathe.

A friend of mine recalls that her mother always sat sideways in her chair during meals. Whether the table was surrounded by family members or invited guests, she was poised for action. She’d jump up if she’d forgotten something in the kitchen, if someone wanted steak sauce rather than the ketchup that was on the table, or if it was time to pass the serving dishes around again. This mom seldom relaxed enough to enjoy the food and conversation.

The photo of the new priest among his people is an old one. “First Solemn High Mass,” it reads in white handprint in the top right corner, “of Rev. Thomas P. Lynch,” and on the next line, “St....

Stanley Hauerwas and I first met at a conference at Bethel College in Kansas in the early 1980s....

Barry Schwartz’s book became a page-turner for me when he began discussing a survey of preferences in medical care....

For Stephen Prothero and Richard...

Christian faith has generally had an uneasy and sometimes extremely contentious relationship with modern science, a relationship that this book...

I wish this book had been around 20 years ago....

One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English ...

If Douglas John Hall is right, the gospel has been almost eclipsed by Christian triumphalism....

Here is the mature thought of one of the academy’s most eloquent and learned scholars of religion and science...

From Columba at Iona to Evelyn Underhill at Pleshey, British men and women of past generations yearned to know God and follo...

About 15 years ago a proposal to eliminate the Th.D....

Since bursting onto the national scene in 1989 with his celebrated documentary Roger & Me, Michael Moore has gone from being that goofy overweight filmmaker in tennis shoes and a ...

It is a little unusual for a biography (William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience) to be published when its subject is not only alive but is the author of his own just-published be...

When Americans go to the polls in November to select their representatives in Congress, this great exercise in democracy will be tarnished by the fact that in most cases the outcome is virtually pr...

End of discussion: A church youth group was discussing how 9/11 affected their prayer life....

To call Fondwa a village is misleading. It has no central point of organization or population density. It is defined by a road that snakes through a valley 40 miles southwest of Port au Prince....

As presidential campaigns swung into their final five months, President Bush worked at cementing his strong support from evangelicals and shoring up ties to Catholics by visiting and honoring Pope ...