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Shrubs and scrubs: Sunday, February 11 Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26
I do not have a green thumb. I don’t speak to my plants. Instead I make them grab their throats, gasping for water, before I recognize their parched condition. Then I drench and almost drown them....
Still in poor health
It seemed at times during last fall’s presidential election that the most crucial issue facing the nation was the price of prescription drugs for senior citizens....
Down to business: Social entrepreneurs
Imagine a pastor preaching on the rebuilding of the city. Her text is Jeremiah 32. The city of Jerusalem has fallen apart, she tells her congregation, and its citizens have been taken into exile....
Simpsons have soul: TV's most religious family?
The enormous popularity of The Simpsons, now in its 12th television season, suggests that religious people have a sense of humor—contrary to the usual wisdom in Hollywood....
Going digital: Learning from Gutenberg
The rise of the Internet’s World Wide Web in the mid-1990s launched an unlikely hero into the media spotlight: Johann Gutenberg, the 15th-century inventor of movable printing type and technol...
Beside the weary road
Even for those faithful souls for whom Christmas begins on December 25 and continues for 12 days thereafter, the season is over....
Top ten films
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are off-beat filmmakers, but their latest movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, is the best film released in 2000....
Errors galore
Moons have passed since I’ve passed on to you some of the little items readers send me....
Sunday, February 18 (Genesis 45:3-11,15; Luke 6:27-38)
Keeping score and getting even—that’s what enemies do.
Shrubs and scrubs: Sunday, February 11 Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26
I do not have a green thumb. I don’t speak to my plants. Instead I make them grab their throats, gasping for water, before I recognize their parched condition. Then I drench and almost drown them....
Drug world
Steven Soderbergh's Traffic places international drug trade in the broadest possible context, taking viewers into the lives of various people touched by cocaine trafficking....
Natural law revisited
Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics, by Jean Porter...
That demon love
Affection is the most instinctive, in that sense the most animal, of the loves; its jealousy is proportionately fierce....
That demon love: Unchecked devotion
Affection is the most instinctive, in that sense the most animal, of the loves; its jealousy is proportionately fierce....
Womb-love: The practice and theology of adoption
Father Ron meant well. He would never have intentionally excluded some children from his sermon....
God’s diversity: A trinitarian view of religious pluralism
Christians believe in a complex God, three coeternal persons living a single enduring communion....
Freed from selfhood
As I was browsing through a used bookstore, I chanced upon a small treasure, an early English translation of a book whose author we don’t know (identified only by place of residence as &ldquo...
Clinton's era
With his astonishing mix of blarney and brilliance, personal empathy and political calculation, Bill Clinton could have walked off the pages of a southern novel....
Amateurs and rookies: Sunday, February 4 (Luke 5:1-11)
Most of us enjoy stories about naïve amateurs who make bizarre mistakes....