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Lama Surya Das, longtime meditation teacher, chides self-centered use of mindfulness
Lama Surya Das is one of the handful of Westerners who have been teaching meditation for decades. And yet, he says we’re doing it wrong....
The most beautiful boat
My brother is nine and I am ten. Wood already obeys his hands when he asks it gently to work with him.
Language school
When I was learning to be a missionary in Japan, I went to language school. Five mornings a week, we got together in small classes with only about eight students in each classroom, because the emphasis was on oral language learning and drills. There, we met missionaries from other traditions as well as students in Japan for more secular pursuits.
Other people saying things
"For most people who are arrested and charged with a crime, the most serious consequence is the record that’s created."...
Blogging Toward Sunday is going. Sunday's Coming is coming.
The first Sunday's Coming email will feature a new piece by Justo González, along with past Century work by Nadia Bolz-Weber, John Buchanan, Brian Blount, and Lillian Daniel.
Running to the Fire, by Tim Bascom
Tim Bascom’s family, from small-town Kansas, returned to Ethiopia as missionaries when he was 15....
How IS teaches hate: insights from an ex-al-Qaeda jihadist
(The Christian Science Monitor) The rise of the self-described Islamic State has been so quick and its behavior so brutal that in the ...
Nigeria's president revamps military forces fighting Boko Haram
(The Christian Science Monitor) In his inauguration speech, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that Boko Haram is the country's ...
Study finds Americans think well of churches, might even attend
Many Americans today don’t think they have a place for church in their lives....
Tony Blair’s new job: fighting religious and political extremism in Europe
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has a new job campaigning against religious and political extremism in Europe....
Looking together
In To the Lighthouse, two people who don't get along find themselves looking at a bowl of fruit. "Looking together," writes Woolf, "united them."
Why the Rohingya Muslims are fleeing Myanmar
An estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims live in squalor in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State....
Edward T. Chambers, faith-based organizer, dies at 85: People
Edward T. Chambers, longtime executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, died on April 26 in Kilcoe, Ireland. He was 85 and had advanced Alzheimer’s disease, according to the IAF....
James Ernest named editor in chief of Eerdmans: People
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has hired James Ernest as editor in chief....
The death penalty and the culture of death
Last week the Nebraska legislature abolished the state’s death penalty, overcoming the governor’s veto to do it. First Things editor Matthew Schmitz, writing in National Review, adds a salutary note of caution to the celebration that followed: viewing abolition as moral progress allows us to “overlook the countless cruelties of our criminal-justice system as we congratulate ourselves on the elimination of a relatively rare punishment.”
Mary’s resistance
We are used to the picture of the family of Jesus that we see at Christmas time: the brave, young Mary, ready for whatever God has in mind for her....
The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, Volume Two, by Walter Brueggemann
These sermons are organized according to the church year, with a handful prepared for milestones such as graduation or marriage....
Behind exodus of Rohingyas, a push from Myanmar
(The Christian Science Monitor) Fatima is on an emotional rollercoaster....
Israeli soldier’s ham sandwich nearly lands him in military prison
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