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Obama, U.S. Muslims decry fatal shooting: "No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts"
In a ceremony recalling the 13 people gunned down in an attack five days earlier at Fort Hood, Texas, President Obama said the tragedy cannot be supported by any faith....
Muslim teaching on war part of probe into murders: Should Muslims serve in armies that kill Muslims?
Among the leads investigators explored as they sought to uncover what motivated Major Nidal M....
Russian Orthodox uneasy with Protestant trends: Troubled over women clergy
In October, Lutheran Bishop Margot Kässman of Hanover, Germany, was elected as the first woman and, at 51, the youngest cleric to head the Evan gelical Church in Germany (EKD), an umbrella body of ...
'Theology' after 'God' A conversation: A conversation
In the midst of a theology conference, two postmodern theologians sit down to lunch. [This is just an excerpt of the print article....
Pastors by degree: Evolution of a vocation
There is no state regulation for the profession of pastoral ministry....
Waiting room: Summer of anger
If 1967 was America’s Summer of Love, 2009 will be remembered as the Summer of Anger. Town halls became “town hells” and tempers flared on the Internet and across other media....
Mary's carol: Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)
The greatest Christmas carol in history was not written by Irving Berlin or Nat King Cole. The greatest carol is not “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” or “White Christmas” or even “Silent Night.” The greatest carol was composed 2,000 years ago by a pregnant teenage girl who was visiting her cousin Elizabeth.
The freedom of the debtors: Colossians 3:12-17
A study done a few years ago showed that a sign of a person’s incompetence is his or her inability to perceive incompetence. Nowhere does this inability to have an objective, accurate, reality-based view of our performance show itself more than in the spiritual realm. When it comes to moral character, purity of heart or duplicity in actions, how many of us have given serious thought to how our lives would be graded in the eyes of a holy, just, righteous, truth-telling God?
The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society
For the last ten years, I have worked in the same small soup kitchen at a local church....
Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
In his history of peace movements and traditions in the U.S....
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
In science, as in most things, what one concludes depends on what one as sumes....
Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze’s film of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, substitutes pop psychology for Sendak’s exuberant, anarchic vision of childhood....
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The freedom of the debtors: Colossians 3:12-17
A study done a few years ago showed that a sign of a person’s incompetence is his or her inability to perceive incompetence. Nowhere does this inability to have an objective, accurate, reality-based view of our performance show itself more than in the spiritual realm. When it comes to moral character, purity of heart or duplicity in actions, how many of us have given serious thought to how our lives would be graded in the eyes of a holy, just, righteous, truth-telling God?
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This pocket-sized volume collects eight years’ worth of Rina Ayuyang’s self-published autobiographical minicomics....
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Kamienska, who died in 1986, is well known in Poland, where her two volumes of intensely focused, intensely religious diaries have many admirers....