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Love your neighbor as yourself
This always seemed like hard moral advice that very few of us were really able to follow. But in recent times its meaning seems clearer.
Sunday, February 12, 2012: 2 Kings 5: 1–14; Mark 1:40–45
Ever since I was a kid, I've been intrigued by gestalt pictures....
On eve of Darwin's birthday, states take steps to limit evolution
c. 2012 Religion News Service...
Overheated rhetoric in Chicago
After glancing at recent headlines and listening to rumors,
I was under the impression that the Chicago City Council had passed repressive...
Debating religion and the presidency
At last week’s Republican Presidential Debate hosted by CNN in
Jacksonville, Florida, a wonderful question was asked of the candidates:...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James H. Cone
My great-grandfather was lynched. It was not a big affair in the town square; it happened on a dusty southern road....
Is ‘compassionate conservatism’ obsolete?
The Republican presidential candidates competing for the affections of
Florida voters have plenty of labels with which to tar each other:
Influence peddler. Failed politician. Cayman Islands account holder.
Aspiring polygamist.
Seeing the ends of the earth
When our girls were still quite young, my husband Norm and I moved our family from our fast-paced life and work in Chicago to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where Norm had accepted a teaching position. Feeling a bit like Abraham and Sarah, we made a radical change of landscape.
The weak in faith
It was after a funeral. I was sitting with a couple who were visiting our congregation, but it turned out they had connections with my husband's church, so we began to chat. And (here's where I get fuzzy) I don't know how this came up or what I said exactly, but I must have said something about "the historical view" or "the critical view" of the Bible, and they both got this stricken, deer-in-the-headlights look.
Kermit and Piggy meet the British press
Weeks ago I ranted
about Fox News's absurd piece on how the new Muppets movie is out to turn
children into free-enterprise-hating liberals. Now the film's about to
come out in the U.K., and naturally Kermit and Piggy are doing press
around the release. Turns out they're perfectly capable of defending
themselves on their own.
Ravished by Beauty, by Belden C. Lane
In this splendid book Belden Lane has made a double contribution—to the
reordering of our perspectives on creation and to our understanding of
the Reformed tradition as a contributor to this reordering.
A taste for Dante
A. N. Wilson's literary biography aims to bridge the gap between the Commedia and nonspecialists who, allegedly abandoned by the professionals, are like sheep without a shepherd.
Attack of the zombies
All zombie plots include great hordes of the stalking dead. But the genre is maturing.