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The view from Kukes: Listening to the refugees
How could it happen in Europe? And how could it happen in Europe at the end of the 20th century? And how could it happen that Europe did not see what was occurring and intervene sooner?...
Why we need the International Criminal Court
This has been a good century for tyrants. Stalin killed millions but was never even charged with a crime. Pol Pot slaughtered well over 1 million but never saw the inside of a prison cell....
Immodest proposal: Cutting military spending
Every gun that is made," said Dwight Eisenhower, "every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clo...
Choosing life, choosing death
The brutal shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, prompted the by now familiar search for explanations and remedies....
Negative externality
Why shouldn't parents be treated as badly as smokers?" asked the writer rhetorically....
Only questions
The question of "why" dominates our conversations about the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. But there is no answer to such a question....
Callingness
Our dictionaries are too small. We do not have nearly enough words to name the realities around us. My 12-volume Oxford English Dictionary and two supplements are too spare....
Shared spirit: Numbers 11:24-30
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them round about the tent....
Exploiting immigrant workers: Packinghouse communities
The two men had come with other Latinos from Texas to work in a Missouri meat-packing plant. They had once worked the fields, and had experienced all kinds of employers and working conditions....
Signs of the postdenominational future
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been through a quarter century of disagreement and division over homosexuality....
Give me liberty and death: Assisted suicide in Oregon: A year after the Death with Dignity Act
A 43-year-old Oregon man is progressively paralyzed by the advance of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)....
Dying well: A challenge to Christian compassion
The fear of enduring unceasing pain, of being trapped by medical machines, of losing bodily integrity and personal dignity and of being an emotional and financial drain on one's loved ones--such fe...
On the slippery slope: Perils of assisted suicide
Some of the most visible and forceful opponents of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are people who are severely disabled. Why do they take such an interest in this issue?...
Letting God run things without my help
When I was a parish minister, my only hope of remembering the sabbath was to make it a moveable feast.
Increasing reverence
The Rev. Seminarian Chad Foster wrote a letter to U.S. News & World Report (April 5) and reverently signed it as just described. The usage was new to me....
Two churches: John 17:1-11; Acts 1:6-14
I kept losing track of what I was going to say next. Yet it may have been my best sermon.
Interrupted dialogue: Religious leaders in kosovo
Today in Serbia there cannot be a solution for Kosovo or any other problem because the undemocratic regime of Mr....