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Youth ministry: A contemplative approach
Help Wanted: Youth Leader to lead Sunday school and youth group programs for senior and junior high youth. No experience necessary. Start IMMEDIATELY. 8-10 hours a week....
Christian colleges: A dying light or a new refraction?
As a president of a church-related college, I find much criticism of church-related higher education to be well-intentioned but wistful nostalgia....
Inclusive and discerning? Unpacking "inclusivity": Unpacking "inclusivity"
There was a time when exclusivity was more or less the rule in America's churches. Churches were unembarrassedly particular in identity, and this was often expressed in ethnic terms....
Mideast time line
In the Middle East, May 4 and May 17 loom large on the calendar. For a long time it was feared that Yasir Arafat would declare the formation of a Palestinian state on May 4....
Governing the body
The Honorable Jesse Ventura is the Lutheran governor of the country's most Lutheran state, Minnesota. Pamela Hill Nettleton wrote a short profile on him in the Lutheran (March)....
Foolhardy faith: Acts 17:22-31; 1 Peter 3:13-22
Just where Lenin Avenue makes a turn, coming out of downtown Moscow and heading out toward the southwest suburbs, stands St. Nicholas's Church....
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer? Homilies, Witnesses and Reflections
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer?: Homilies, Witnesses and Reflections...
The World According to Eve, By Cullen Murphy
The World According to EveBy Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 302 pp....
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, by Martha Minow
Between Vengeance and ForgivenessBy Martha Minow. Beacon, 147 pp....
Tainted testimony
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor GuatemalensBy David Stoll. Westview, 336 pp....
Faulty logic, faulty ethics: NATO intervention in yugoslavia
Many pronouncements made by Serbs and by ethnic Albanians in Serbia, including Kosovo, are half-truths. Half-truths have also corrupted the pronouncements of many people, including the U.S....
Privilege and resentment: Religious conflict in India
St. Stephen's College in New Delhi carries on its walls the Sanskrit prayer "Satyam Eva Jayate Na Anritham" (Truth alone triumphs supreme, not Untruth)....
Liberal questions: A response to William Placher
William Placher's reply to my inquiries about "postliberal" theology (April 7) is necessarily brief, and this response to him must be briefer than desirable....
Piety in pop art: Visual Piety: A History and Theology of Popular Religious Images By David Morgan. University of California Press, 283 pp.
David Morgan, Visual Piety: A History and Theology of Popular Religious Images (University of California Press, 283 pp.)...
Tragic choices in Kosovo: Milosevic as hostage taker
NATO gambles that it can stop the Serbs without causing a bloodbath in Kosovo." That statement, shouted from the cover of U.S....
At home in God: Psalm 23
Whether we are sheep or people or runaway bunnies, we cannot run away from God.