Features
An exercise in civility: To speak and be heard
Here is a nightmare for those who hate conflict: take a not very large or airy room in Washington, D.C., and jam it full of tables and microphones, chairs and cameras. Put a document on the table to test at a "public airing." Now invite to the table representatives of groups who are rarely in the same room together.
God on the brain: The neurobiology of faith
By James B. Ashbrook and Carol Rausch Albright, The Humanizing Brain. (Pilgrim, 233 pp.)
Departments
Wild children
Hard to believe that a year has passed since first we heard about Monica. It feels more like a decade that we've been in this Slough of Despond....
Faith’s benefits
It seems that every few weeks we read another report touting the health benefits of being religious....
Difficult, very difficult
The most amazing thing about the surrender of the two top officials of the Khmer Rouge regime--which was responsible for the deaths of about 1 million people--never made it to the headlines....
He can’t be tied down
Many of us columnists have files stuffed with Christmas items that came to our attention too late to be used during the season but are sure to be misplaced before the next year....