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The Apostles' creed ends with a statement of Christian belief in "the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting." The second article of the Nicene Creed states that Jesus Christ "will come...

From a trip to Havana in the fall of 1980, I returned with two small statues of African female warriors, one with a machete, the other carrying a rifle....

Ten years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was breached. Within months the once monolithic world of the Soviet bloc was dismantled and the claims of Karl Marx decisively discredited....

Kenyans were sent reeling by a report made public in September by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Cult of Devil Worship in Kenya. Reactions range from ridicule to alarm....

Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death, by Richard Marius...

We buried a fine teacher the other day. He was not a scintillating lecturer, nor was he a particularly exciting person....

A reader from Texas sent us a copy of a letter issued by a church summer camp: "Dear Parent(s): As you were aware, yesterday we went to the Mary T. Meager Aquatic Center....

Blaise Pascal evokes a sense of existential dread in this famous line: "The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me." In his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, W....

For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today, by Jedediah PurdySoul of a Citzen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, by Paul Rogat Loeb...

Grace at the Table, by David Beckmann and Art Simon...

The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, by Robert Alter...

Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale...

Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities, by Robert Wuthnow...

Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward...

Working with Available Light: A Family's World after Violence, by Jamie Kalven...

More Matter: Essays and Criticism, by John Updike...

The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, edited by Christopher Rowland...

The Pastor as a Moral Guide, by Rebekah L. Miles...

Jesus: Symbol of God, by Roger Haight, S.J....

When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome, by Richard E. Rubenstein...