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The religion of Israel is a great theater. Moses goes up on the mountain and the clouds close underneath him like curtains....

Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems Among American Girls and Women, by Michelle Mary Lelwica...

John Updike's 19th novel, plotted as a "prequel" to Shakespeare's Hamlet, is a beautifully crafted, captivating story....

After St. Louis Rams receiver Isaac Bruce made the game-winning touchdown against the Tennessee Titans in the Super Bowl, he gave credit to God. “It was all God....

In this new century, any credible answer to that question needs to be prefaced by what we cannot give....

Writer Jon Katz recently said that news coverage of the Internet lurches “from one extreme to the other.” Either the Net is “a dread menace or it’s a Utopian vision.” Journalism, he concluded, “has...

Ever since I was a child, my mother has observed the season of Christmas in the same way....

If you were around any of the years in this chronology you probably didn’t notice—I didn’t—the instant effect of the following: 1944—first automatic, general purpose digital computer;...

As the gusty winds of change blow unpredictably through the church, Jesus provides an intriguing sound bite in the Gospel lesson: “One puts new wine into fresh wineskins.” Fresh wineskins, as faith...

Islam in America, by Jane I. Smith...

Thomas Cahill's title comes from Genesis 49:26. Though it is hard to see any reference to Jesus in that passage, it does come close to defining this book's tone....

The four front-runners for the presidency are following what has become a political pattern: candor when there are no votes to be lost, extreme caution when votes are at risk....

A rising economic tide lifts everybody’s financial boat. Well, almost everybody’s....

When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was asked in 1993 why he was attending a “parliament of the world’s religions,” he answered that we are told to “welcome strangers,” that many things are happening in...

In the fall of 1998 Candler School of Theology made a serious wager concerning its future: it launched a comprehensive new program in contextual education....

"I want my seminary experience to form me as a person of prayer.” We had never heard a student state this desire so eloquently and succinctly....

For some time now I have been both attracted to and troubled by the story of Abraham’s journey to present his son Isaac as a burnt offering in the land of Moriah....

Every year I wait for the January issue of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research....

When the congregation I serve initiated a prayer chain several years ago, its participants were amazed at the response: healing intercessions requested for all manner of illnesses and ailments—phys...

Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models, by Robert Banks...