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Home court disadvantage: Sunday, January 28 Jeremiah 1:4-10; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
Early on, even Jeremiah could have located himself somewhere within Frederick Buechner’s pithy essay on vocation in Wishful Thinking....
Full house
When I travel to New York City, I like to stay in one of the guest rooms at General Seminary down in Chelsea....
Food fight
Things seemed to be going smoothly on the ecumenical front at the beginning of the new millennium....
Dreams fulfilled: The pluralism of religious ends
Imagine for a moment that we meet an angelic visitor who can tell us the future, and we ask whether some person we know will be “saved.” Suppose our visitor says, “No, she will no...
Morality and war: Bringing contemporary warfare into focus
Morality and Contemporary Warfare, by James Turner Johnson...
Home court disadvantage: Sunday, January 28 Jeremiah 1:4-10; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
Early on, even Jeremiah could have located himself somewhere within Frederick Buechner’s pithy essay on vocation in Wishful Thinking....
Unusual powers
Unbreakable, directed by M. Night ShyamalanSolomon and Gaenor, directed by Paul Morrison...
Moral selving
Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community, by Rebecca Anne Allahyari...
Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business, by S. Prakash Sethi and Oliver F. Williams
Apartheid in South Africa was a 20th-century equivalent to the three and a half centuries of slavery in America....
Overcoming division
Calendar purists insist that only now are we entering the 21st century, since 2000 was really the final year of the 20th century....
Faith-based programs
A recent New Yorker cartoon showed one man sizing up another man in a clerical collar: “I see you’re a member of a faith-based organization.” We’re bound to hear a ...
Boycotting pickles: A labor strategy in North Carolina
Forty years after Harvest of Shame, Edward R. Murrrow’s great documentary on the exploitation of migrant workers, the shame endures....
Biblical authority: A personal reflection
The authority of the Bible is a perennial and urgent issue for those of us who stake our lives on its testimony....
Rabbit lives
Nelson Angstrom works as a mental health counselor in an Adult Day Treatment Center....
Full communion
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?...
Taking the good news home (Luke 4:14-21; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)
Choose your words carefully if you preach to the people back home. Those who knew you will remember things that make many messages seem odd....
Taking the good news home (Luke 4:14-21; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)
Choose your words carefully if you preach to the people back home. Those who knew you will remember things that make many messages seem odd....
Religion unsegregated
Education, Religion and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation about Religion's Role in Our Shared Life, by Martin E. Marty with Jonathan Moore ...
Whitebread Protestants, by Daniel Sack
Food unites mainline Protestants, Daniel Sack argues in this engaging account of the role played by food in white, middle-class churches--what the author affectionately calls "whitebread Protestant...