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A habit of ministry
We’ve heard the question, as have pastors around the country: Where is God in the death and devastation that struck September 11?...
Reasons of state: what is government for?
Americans are still trying to grasp what happened on September 11, and we don’t yet know how to talk about what comes next....
Homegrown extremism: preaching in daytona beach
Daytona Beach—it’s the home of NASCAR, Spring Break, Bike Week, and the self-proclaimed “most famous beach in the world.” The city has an interesting mix of natives with dee...
White bull of peace: sudan's forgotten conflict
As part of a campaign to stop one of the world’s longest wars, peace coordinator Telar Deng begins and ends peace conferences by sacrificing a white bull....
Afterlife: reflections following my mother's death
So common are visitations in reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) that I, for one, do not expect to die alone....
Guilt and complexity: The Holocaust's lessons for the church
Controversy about the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has ...
To think and act anew
We must not expect our nation’s wound to heal quickly: It is too deep and the pain is too profound. We Americans expect instant healing....
Heavenly minded
Throughout much of history, opium has been used as a narcotic to ease human suffering....
Fortress mentality
Now is the time to warn ourselves of the dangers of impregnability. True, as a country we have been violated in a most brutal way, and we’ll have to make sure that we are safe in the future....
Documenting diversity
A New Religious America. By Diana L. Eck. HarperSanFrancisco, 404 pp., $27.00....
Family, by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Lisa Sowle Cahill has given a well-reasoned face to a position within the American family debate which has been difficult to describe and even more difficult to promote....
Calvin, by Bernard Cottret. Translated by M. Wallace McDonald.
Bernard Cottret set out to replace the commonplace, static picture most people have of John Calvin as "a doctrinaire divider, attached to his own ideas to the point of fanaticism" with "a portrait ...
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....