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Welcoming the stranger: The practice of hospitality
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, by Christine Pohl...
Biology meets theology: Divergent views on evolution
Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History, by Holmes Rolston...
Sins and sensibilities: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Where I grew up, everybody was pretty much just like me. It was a small, southern community, with a long history, deep roots and consistent Christian morality....
Quality time
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time, by Dorothy Bass...
Going Home, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Since the Vietnam War era, Thich Nhat Hanh has been known to North Americans as an activist for peace and justice and an interpreter of Vietnamese Buddhism and culture. Martin Luther King Jr....
Public passions
Linda Tripp and Virginia Woodhull, living more than a century apart, were central figures in two public scandals involving high-profile figures....
The Jesus card: Campaign piety
Republican contenders for president met in Iowa recently to talk about politics and a testimonial broke out. When asked to identify his favorite philosopher-thinker, George W....
Farm worker victory: Mushroom farmers lead the way
When United Farm Workers organizer Frank Curiel answered the phone in mid-December, he had just come from Quincy Farms, which each year produces 25 million pounds of white button mushrooms and 500,...
The crucible of Kosovo: Top religion stories of 1999: Assessing intervention
The 20th century began in Sarajevo and it will end in Sarajevo.” That saying, current during the war in Bosnia, wasn’t too far wrong....
Entering the millennium on Christian time: On pilgrimage through history
Are we there yet?” my son Andy cries just as we are pulling out of the driveway. “Are we there yet?’ when we drive up to the McDonald’s take-away window....
Thy will be done: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Mark 1: 14-20
Those first fisher disciples left more than their nets by the seashore.
Notes on a born-again nation: New hope for Nigeria
A man once asked God why he had blessed Nigeria so abundantly, a popular joke goes....
Remembering
I remember myself as an insomniac nine-year-old, lying sleepless in bed after my parents had turned out the lights....
Time capsule
The only college paper I saved was written when I was a sophomore. Dated “Thanksgiving 1946,” it turned up a couple of years ago in my files....
Entering the millennium on Christian time
On pilgrimage through history
How objective is science?
Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction, by Michael Ruse...
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties, by Perry Bush
Perry Bush has set himself a daunting task: to tell the story of Mennonite pacifism from World War I through Vietnam....
A Royal Waste of Time, by Marva J. Dawn
Marva Dawn excels at demonstrating how good worship and good liturgy meet the very needs that drive us to their substitutes....