The purported last year of the old millennium started with a vivid reminder that eschatological hopes and fears will be flourishing in the months of 1999....
At no time is the legislative process more frustrating than during the congressional "silly season," the last six months of the legislative cycle when members are up for election....
Today another package arrived from Ethiopia. I handed the post office clerk the yellow claim slip and he handed me the brown paper package with the exotic stamps on it....
In her book Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Anne Lamott describes the afternoon she misplaced her father. His brain cancer had progressed to the point where he wa...
Democratic decision-making is second nature for most American Protestants. Is there a dispute in the church? Let's debate the issue, and then put it to a vote....
By John Dominic Crossan, The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus. (HarperSanFrancisco, 653 pp.)...