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Fighting for Social Justice, by David Burgess
David Burgess does not go gentle into fights....
Benedict’s Dharma, edited by Patrick Henry with an afterword by David Steindl-Rast and a translation of the rule by Patrick Barry
Monastics from diverse religious traditions the world over face similar opportunities, challenges and frustrations....
After September 11: Thinking as Christians
In the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11, thousands of our fellow citizens were buried under the rubble. The rest of us have been buried under the rubble of words that followed....
What does God intend? In an unimaginable crisis: In an unimaginable crisis
We want a word from God....
Naming the terror: The human heart and the Spirit of God
Our response to human horror and tragedy moves inexorably outward as if through concentric circles, beginning in the gut and the heart, moving to the head, and finally taking shape in the form of s...
At the mosque: ‘We came here to live in peace'
Next to the minaret of Milwaukee’s Islamic Society a new sign appeared after the horrific events of September 11: “Our Hearts and Prayers Are with the Victims and Their Families.”...
Eyewitness to disaster: Churches open doors
After the twin towers collapsed, Washington Square United Methodist Church in Greenwich Village opened its doors and telephone lines to crying, shaken passersby....
The language of terror
We have a choice which language we speak, how the conversation goes on.
Eyewitness to disaster: A day to listen
At noon on September 11 the chapel of the Interchurch Center at 475 Riverside Drive was filled with people who didn’t know the fate of loved ones, and people who could not get home, as Manhat...
Eyewitness to disaster: Lonely city
These past days the church has been open. People have come flowing in bearing pictures of “the disappeared,” sent by St....
Eyewitness to disaster: At Trinity Wall Street
When the first aircraft hit New York’s World Trade Center during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, September 11, young children were arriving at Trinity Wall Street’s pre-school, staff ...
Reaching through the bars: Chicago-area prison ministry
The same Spirit that was upon Jesus, bringing good news to the poor and proclaiming release to the captive, is found among Christians today who have a heart for prisoners and their families....
And Jesus laughed: Luke 17:11-19
When I read this passage, I’d like to hear the inflection that Jesus gave to these words. “Were not ten made clean?...
Do not lose heart: Luke 18:1-8
What the widow in the Luke parable wants from the judge is vengeance or vindication....
A case of mistaken identity: Children of one God
By now we are all too familiar not only with the major terrorist attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, but also with the smaller terrorist attacks on Muslims, Sikhs and Arab-Americans...
Eyes to see, ears to hear: Not a time for vengeance
In the final days of Jesus’ ministry, “so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another” in their desire to hear him....
America at prayer: The church's prosaic heroism
Campus chaplains are reporting that special worship services have been filling their sanctuaries these days....
Heart of a child
Neil Philip’s Illustrated Book of Myths includes a story the Algonquin Indians tell, titled “Glooskap and the Wasis.” Gl...
Eco-economics
Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economics for a Planet in Peril. By Sallie McFague. Fortress, 251 pp., $18.00....
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
In the closing lines of Louise Erdrich's new novel, Father Damien Modeste, who has been the priest at the Objibwe reservation of Little No Horse for many years, is being buried in the nearby lake....