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Plagued: The new challenge to public health
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett...
Witness and remember: McVeigh's execution should be televised
After 30 years of directing funerals, I’ve come to believe in open caskets....
Right of return: Can the Palestinians go home?
In the Jubilee vision of Leviticus 25, the dispossessed and disenfranchised are allowed to return to their ancestral homes every 50 years....
Living in the Bible
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg...
The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo
"Time seems to pass," the opening line of Don DeLillo's 12th novel, could sum up this spare, evocative work....
Dangerous Diplomacy, by Theo Tschuy
One of the most unusual rescuers of European Jews during the Holocaust was Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz....
Just warming up? Moving backwards on the environment: Moving backwards on the environment
President Bush’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Kyoto agreement on global warming amounted to a gratuitous dismissal of the decade-long negotiations on reducing greenhouse gases....
Diagnose this! Unexpected lessons from the megachurch: unexpected lessons from the megachurch
At the pastors’ conference, a church diagnostician has been telling me and other glassy-eyed pastors that we have to start seeing things differently....
Training in Christianity: Holy habits
Eleven-year-old Jennifer has invited her friend Claire to spend the day. Jennifer’s younger sister, Laurie, who is eight, is trying to keep up with the older girls....
Ground zero: Forming students through the Bible
Few bytes of humor have logged more miles on the Internet than certain bloopers and gaffes collected by Richard Lederer (in Anguished English and More Anguished English), and thos...
All in the family: Don't isolate youth in ‘youth programs'
What kind of relationship do you want to have with your teen in five years?” Tim Tahtinen, youth leader at the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, likes to pose that question...
Diary of a Russian priest
By a coincidence that must strike a chord in the hearts of all who long for Christian unity, Easter Sunday falls on the same day this year for Christians of both East and West....
Missing the game
I should be attending a conference in New York, but I am at home staring at my computer, with an entire week of travel wiped out because of a pesky bronchial infection....
Traffic control
With the beginning of the kamikaze missions we call denominational conventions only a month or two off, it is proper and wise to prepare ourselves for what will happen at most of them....
Reconnecting: A college recovers its Christian identity
For much of this century, the waning influence of religion in American colleges and universities was viewed as a natural concomitant of modernization, and it was generally seen as a necessary or ev...
Clothed with compassion: Sunday, May 6 (Acts 9:36-43)
Around 1967, a visitor came to worship at the church that my family attended. He was a minister on leave from his parish while he worked for Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty....
The Rivers of Paradise, edited by David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond
Max Weber's early 20th-century sociological analysis of the ideal types of religious leadership is still a useful benchmark for discussions of founders of religious traditions....