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Eyes to see, ears to hear: Not a time for vengeance

In the final days of Jesus’ ministry, “so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trod upon one another” in their desire to hear him. Luke reports that Jesus spoke first to his small group of disciples and said, “Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.” There is, he warned, a larger truth than the one you think you know.

America at prayer: The church's prosaic heroism

Campus chaplains are reporting that special worship services have been filling their sanctuaries these days. Pews that often gather dust have been crowded with students who usually pass the churches by. They meditate, cry, pray. Meanwhile, public figures invoke the name of God and bless the nation—all legally because all voluntarily, things done as “acts of free will,” not “by law.”

Downtown churches in cities unharmed by the September 11 terrors that devastated parts of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., did not lack worshipers.