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Reconciling Science and Religion, by Peter J. Bowler
In an 1893 essay on Darwin's The Origin of Species T. H....
Learning from History and The Holocaust Encyclopedia
Two recent books reflect contrasting approaches to the study of the Holocaust....
Wait till next time: "Memories of our best hopes"
In his book Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games, A....
To clone or not to clone: Morally disorienting
When Kentucky was considering a ban on all cloning of human embryos this year, the debate struck close to home for legislator Jim Reynolds....
Worship and renewal: Surveying congregational life
Analysts of industrial nations often are perplexed by the continuing high level of religious activity in the United States....
America goes its own way: Dropping out
The U.S. war against terrorism since September 11 has obscured a longstanding yet growing set of dysfunctional relationships between this nation and most other nations. The U.S....
Restorative vision: Poetry reading
Wendell Berry has lived as a farmer and writer in Kentucky for a quarter century. In his fiction, essays and poetry, he often meditates on the human relation to the earth....
Married love: Forgiveness comes first
Dearly beloved: Recent surveys report that adults in their 20s have high hopes for themselves and marriage, but a low appraisal of marriage in general. ...
Gay church stresses zero tolerance: Metropolitan Community Church
Though some Catholic leaders blame homosexual priests for much of their church’s sexual-abuse problems, the predominantly gay Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches has had no sexu...
Close call: Genesis 22:1-14
In my youth I thought: God asked what of Abraham? Is this the God who I am supposed to worship?
Facing fear: Genesis 21:8-12; Matthew 10:26-30
A mother and child wander in the unknown—that place where fears overtake us.
Risk management: Protestants confront sexual abuse
The latest wave of sexual abuse scandals crashing upon Catholic parishes and chanceries has apparently missed most Protestant churches....
To hell with gays?
It was inevitable that the antihomosexual lobby would develop something equivalent to a neutron bomb designed to wipe ou...
The kingdom of baseball
There is a brief scene in The Great Gatsby in which narrator Nick Carraway is introduced to the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. Nick is stunned by the notion....
Growing Up Protestant, by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
The popular psychoanalyst Alice Miller assesses the intersection of children's lives with Christian values and concludes that the Christian tradition functions as a "poisonous pedagogy" for those w...
Truth and consequences
Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful is more graphic in its portrayal of the act, but it comes no closer than most recent films to confronting the issues surrounding adultery....
Making connections
Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy brings together Will, a wealthy 30-something bachelor, with Marcus, a 12-year-old who's alienated at school and miserable at home, where his depressed singl...
Mutual confusion
The ismail Merchant--James Ivory production team, now synonymous with elegant costume dramas set in the 19th century, first attracted notice in 1965 with Shakespeare Wallah, the s...