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Religious truce: A funeral and a healing
I think they lived their whole 55 years together feeling rejected by their respective religions. They met at a free concert in Central Park during World War II....
The fullness of time: Reflections on the millennium: Living in God's time
As we approach the turning of the calendar to the year 2000, there is likely to be intense speculation among some Christian groups about the end times....
Globalization with a human face
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, by Thomas L. Friedman...
Divine subtraction
Recently I received a letter from the CEO of a not-for-profit corporation that is dear to my heart. After seven years of leadership, he said, he believed it was time for him to step down....
Say it with color
Crayola's recent announcement that it will change the name of its Indian red crayon to avoid misunderstandings about the color's origin (it comes from a reddish-brown pigment found in India) made m...
From wrath to grace: Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18; Psalm 90:1-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30
A young seminarian could effectively caricature the preaching of his supervising pastor. "Repent!" he would holler at the top of his lungs....
Tribal conflict
There is a story in the Book of Genesis, rarely examined by modern readers, that is so pertinent to today's headlines that it should be required reading for any journalist reporting on the tribal c...
On the run
Endurance (1999), directed by Leslie WoodheadRun Lola Run (1998), directed by Tom Tykwer...
Patients, ethics and power
The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine, and the Church, by Joel James Shuman...
Red-Hot and Righteous, by Diane Winston
To the beat of their drums, missionaries from the "Save-a-Soul Mission"—a dead ringer for the Salvation Army—march onstage in Guys and Dolls, the 1950 Broadway musical comedy....
A Guide to the Sacraments, by John Macquarrie
John Macquarrie's small book on the sacraments offers everything those who know his work have come to expect....
Is America Breaking Apart? by John A. Hall and Charles Lindholm
The short answer to the question posed by the title of this insightful and persuasive book is no. John A....
Ethics for the New Millennium, by the Dalai Lama
St. Augustine told Christian pastors that their most eloquent instruction would lie not in their words but in their lives. The Dalai Lama's new book is an example of that principle still at work....
Ecumenical challenge: A new story for Protestants and Catholics
On October 31, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will celebrate the signing of a joint declaration on justification by faith....
The cross as good news for women
The passion narrative is the story of a series of violations. Is it good for us to find our identity in it?
A Zapatista church: Presbyterians in Chiapas: Displaced and abandoned
Amid poverty, war and, occasionally, massacre, the Presbyterians in the town of Polhó in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas are singing for their lives....
Heart's home
As a woman who tries to live out Benedictine values as a layperson connected with a particular monastery, I try to spend at least a week every year at St. Benedict's Monastery in St....
Fallibilities
Readers supply us with more items for this column than we can acknowledge or print, but we do our best to sneak these signs of human fallibility in among our weighty pronouncements....