Life of Faith

Life of Faith

Faith Matters

Generation GK

Jul 18, 2001 by Carol Zaleski

No doubt it is a peculiar vantage point from which to survey the religious habits of the current generation, but my vantage point is that of a religion teacher at a liberal arts college.

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Living into our histories

Jul 04, 2001 by L. Gregory Jones

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.” So Anne Tyler begins her latest novel, Back When We Were Grownups.

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More blessed to give

Jun 20, 2001 by Miroslav Volf

Some time ago a family paid us a visit. Robert, as I will call a little boy who came along, was about our son’s age, and neither of them had yet mastered the art of sharing. But Robert was now on Nathanael’s territory. Nathanael’s toys were scattered all around, and it was his responsibility to share.

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Learned ignorance

Jun 06, 2001 by Barbara Brown Taylor

Graduation season has arrived, and commencement speakers everywhere are praising the virtues of education. I have often been a commencement speaker, but lately I have begun to wonder if knowledge should come with a warning label on it: “Caution: contents are volatile and may cause burns.”

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The prayer of Jabez

May 23, 2001 by Carol Zaleski
And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested (1 Chron.