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June 8th, 2010
Mourning the anonymous homeless and indigent in NYC
There is an island in the East River, within view of the glittering Manhattan skyline, where the homeless and indigent are buried: an island of ...
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April 6th, 2010
Accompanying undocumented immigrants who are in prison
On a recent Saturday morning a minivan weaves through the warehouse district of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a port city an hour south of New York. ...
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January 14th, 2010
A Haitian man and his family wait to see if he is deported and if their family is torn apart
Jonathan Freed hasn't eaten since ...
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May 18th, 2009
Iraqi refugee artists find a home in a Hell's Kitchen church
The picture shows the rough wear of its many journeys. A cheap canvas tacked to a wall then tightly rolled and unfurled again somewhere else. ...
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June 18th, 2008
A renowned New York artist adds a modern twist to ancient Jewish law in creating a painting of Biblical proportions
"Each painting lays out in black, white, purple and magenta just how present G-D is in all aspects of life."
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November 19th, 2007
A review of A Jesuit Off-Broadway
In his latest book, James Martin, SJ explores the work of a contemporary priest and exemplifies the quintessential Jesuit as cultured, literate believer who seeks to ...
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October 8th, 2007
The new documentary for the Bible tells me so re-examines the scriptural prohibition toward homosexuality
What do Christianity and Judaism say about gays and lesbians? Even the most nominal believer is familiar with the story of Sodom and ...
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September 10th, 2007
My own dark night of the soul in Calcutta
A new book of the letters of Mother Teresa, edited by Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, a Missionaries of Charity priest who is responsible for presenting her case for sainthood to ...
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June 22nd, 2007
New York artists use a church as their gallery
When Michelangelo and Da Vinci were working the Catholic Church embraced contemporary art as a form of prayer. These days the institutional church is more likely to condemn contemporary ...
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May 14th, 2007
How one 20-something turned a brief service trip into his life's mission
Each year hundreds of college students visit developing countries to volunteer on humanitarian projects, learn about another culture and foster solidarity with people whose poverty and trauma are ...
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April 4th, 2007
Holy Week in Haiti
So look, if the divine made flesh really did roll into town to adulating crowds only to be betrayed, tortured, killed and then, holy god, rise from the ...
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January 26th, 2007
Siblings Clare and Mary Byrne combine music and dance into something sacred
As the children of two academics who met while studying theology, growing up in the Byrne clan meant that religion was always about more than simply going to church ...
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December 30th, 2006
The Secular Prophet of American Cities
When Jane Jacobs, the 20th Century urban activist and pro-city theorist died in May at the age of 89, we lost a secular prophet. Reading Jacobs' landmark resistance to modern city ...
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August 11th, 2006
In June 2004 Rutba House, an alternative Christian community in Durham, North Carolina, developed this list of ideals meant to shape the nascent "new monastic" movement, which includes The Simple Way and dozens of other ...
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August 9th, 2006
Dirty dishes, anarchist art, morning prayer and other hallmarks of a burgeoning Christian movement
They started out as good Christians. They thumbed through their Bibles, were concerned with sex and feared God. Then they started taking Christianity seriously.
"This thing Jesus called the Kingdom of God is ...
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January 8th, 2002
I'm only five "Why's" away from an ontological crisis
What's that?
I'm buckling my son into his car seat the other morning when he points to the tool used to scrape snow off the windshield.
"It's an ice scraper, sweetheart." ...
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