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Off by nine miles: Isaiah 60:1-7; Matthew 2:1-12
Herod tells the Eastern intellectuals the truth, and the rest is history.
‘Workers, go home!’ The anti-immigrant movement: The anti-immigrant movement
A Riverhead, New York, jury has sentenced 29-year-old Christopher Slavin to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and assault....
Top ten religion stories: In 2001
1. Extremist hijackers wreak death and destruction, launching a U.S.-led “war on terrorism” deeply religious in roots and responses with opposing definitions of “evil” and “good.”...
Missing Harry
Many parents have little choice about whether or not to see--or at least buy tickets for--the movie version of J. K....
A french-fry culture
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. By Eric Schlosser. Houghton Mifflin, 342 pp., $25.00....
Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say), by Frederick Buechner
If this is not Frederick Buechner's valedictory volume it surely could be, given the pathos of his "Afterword": "If somebody a while back had offered me a thousand more years, I would have lea...
Life and liberty: Plan for military tribunals an assault on legal standards
Securing the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has always required balancing issues of security—the protection of life—with issues of freedom....
Short-term mission trips: Beyond good intentions
After Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America in 1998, hundreds of volunteer mission teams descended on Nicaragua and Honduras. Many came from churches in the United States....
Nonviolent voices: Peace churches make a witness
It is not a propitious time to be a pacifist in the United States. Polls indicate that over 90 percent of Americans continue to support the military campaign in Afghanistan....
Three-dimensional faith: Hebrews 2:10-18
While vacationing in Orlando, Florida, my wife and I visited the “Terminator 2 Show” at Universal Studios. We entered the studio and received special 3-D glasses....
A moral squint: Bombs and chaos
After a particularly heavy U.S. bombardment of Kunduz, al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters initially refused to surrender....
Translating the faith: Translators and garblers
Chinese translators and Smithsonian Institution label-writers can be garblers....
Mule ride
Once Mary said yes to the angel, she signed on for a trip with no way out.
Breaking the cycle
I See Satan Fall Like Lightening. By René Girard. Translated by James G. Williams. Orbis, 199 pp., $20.00 paperback....
Soul Survivor, by Philip Yancey
"The Christian ideal," wrote G. K. Chesterton, "has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." Philip Yancey identifies with Chesterton's assessment....
Religion in the Modern American West, by Ferenc Morton Szasz
From the vistas of Albuquerque, where for three decades he has taught intellectual history at the University of New Mexico, Ferenc Morton Szasz has set his sights on exploring a subject neglected b...
