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"Come Out, My People!": God's Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond, by Wes Howard-Brook....
Pope urges compassion for refugees from conflict
Vatican City, April 25 (ENInews)--Pope Benedict XVI on Easter Sunday called for an end to violence in Libya and the Ivory Coast and he prayed for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami,...
Transit worker fired for burning Quran gets job back
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) The New Jersey Transit employee fired for burning
pages of the Quran at the site of a proposed Islamic center near Ground
Zero will get his job back....
Church-state ties on full display at royal wedding
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) When Prince William and Kate Middleton walk
down the aisle at Westminster Abbey on Friday (April 29), Britain's...
Heaven comes to us
When Acts says Jesus is "taken up to heaven," this is not a spatial claim.
Do you recognize the risen Lord?
Easter brings with it an abundance of natural joy and reason for
celebration. The love of God poured out for us through the Incarnation,...
From high to low
This week is the Second Sunday of Easter, aka "low Sunday." There is in the life of a church a movement and momentum toward Easter Sunday, and then inevitably a scattering, a rest after the intensity. And yet the gospel lesson does wrestle with the implications of belief, unbelief and doubt.
The Fakeout, the Tease and the Breather, by Canasta
It
takes guts to kick off an album with a seven-minute track, but Canasta
rewards the listener who hangs in there. "Becoming You" unfolds with...
The Easter gospel lesson's structure
"They have taken my Lord away," says a tearful Mary Magdalene, "and I do not know where they have laid him." Mary utters some version of this lament three times in the Easter Sunday reading from Jo...
Road trips: What memories are for
Sometimes we speak of "possessing" memories. That's not quite right. A
precious memory held in a lockbox doesn't release life, at least not the
fullness of life of which it is capable.
Love lost and found on opposite sides of border
BARTA'A, Israel (RNS) Fatmeh Kabaha spent most of her life surrounded by
her brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews in a small Palestinian...
Public sees Christianity, capitalism at odds
Are Christianity and capitalism a marriage made in heaven, as some
conservatives believe, or more of a strained relationship in need of
some serious counseling?...
Churches slowly rebound from recession
The recession was a double-barrel blow to American congregations:
directly hurting their budgets while increasing the demands for...
A tax receipt at last?
It looks like the U.S. government may be well on its way toward...
Small Source of Comfort, by Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn is a singer-songwriter of extraordinary perception and wit. On Comfort,
his faculties come into laserlike focus on "Call Me Rose," a jaunty...
Essential books
Our spring books issue includes annotated lists of top
titles on religion and the nation's founders, religion and the Civil War, evangelism and youth ministry.
Supreme Court sides with Texas in case involving prisoner’s rights
WASHINGTON (ABP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled April 20
that a federal law protecting the religious liberty of prison inmates...
Scholar challenges Thursday date of Last Supper
LONDON (RNS) A top British scientist claims his biblical, historical and
astronomical research shows Christians have been observing Jesus' Last...