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Pilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain
From Columba at Iona to Evelyn Underhill at Pleshey, British men and women of past generations yearned to know God and follo...
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages
About 15 years ago a proposal to eliminate the Th.D....
The heat is on
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 ...
Holy impatience: William Sloane Coffin, critic of the church
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...
No contest: Redistricting strategies are making elections less meaningful
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...
Century Marks
End of discussion: A church youth group was discussing how 9/11 affected their prayer life....
Making do: Resourcefulness and desperation in Haiti
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....
On the faith-based campain trail: Bush shores up support
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 ...
Reagan political years paralleled right's rise: The Gipper's legacy
Ronald Reagan’s influence on Christian politics in this country will be felt for years to come....
After stem cell rules, senators urge Bush: Fifty-seven say Bush's policy no longer adequate
Fifty-eight senators have asked President Bush to ease restrictions on stem cell research, with some noting that the late President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease could have been aided by expa...
Judge overrules 'partial-birth' ban: "Unconstitutionally vague"
After a California judge declared that the “partial-birth” abortion ban is unconstitutional, progressive groups cheered the ruling and the White House vowed to defend the law....
Presbyterian losses largest since '83: Decline "should call us to prayer and repentance"
Last year the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) suffered its biggest single-year loss in communicant members since the reunion of the “northern” and “southern” denominations in 1983....
Data bite: Best sellers
A new survey of 10,000 book consumers via the Internet found that 18 percent bought religious or spiritual books last year....
Canadian Anglicans affirm 'sanctity' of same-sex couples: A conciliatory message
One day after deferring a decision on whether to bless gay relationships, Canadian Anglicans approved a statement that “affirms the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex relationships”...
Marriage amendment not right, leaders say: From three mainline denominations
Leaders from three mainline Protestant churches deeply divided over homosexuality have opposed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, telling Congress that it would force all chur...
Briefly noted
Los Angeles County supervisors, faced with a lawsuit to remove a tiny gold cross from the county seal, have voted to remove it, but the Roman goddess Pomona will stay....
Doubting theology: Conversations that count
How do Christians understand their faith in light of insights gained from history, social science, natural science and other modes of inquiry?...
Doubting theology: A faith worthy of doubt
How do Christians understand their faith in light of insights gained from history, social science, natural science and other modes of inquiry?...