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March 13th, 2008
Searching for the "right place"
For years I felt a gap between my parents and me—a gap of time and geography. When they were young, their social lives revolved around church; few of my ...
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March 12th, 2008
Before I went to bed, I made sure I was clean. I purified the tub with all the soap in the tiny shampoo bottle. Immersed myself in ...
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March 10th, 2008
Box, Wine and Love Letter
In the living room of my next-door neighbors' house is a wooden crate. It's nothing fancy, just pieces of plywood nailed together, but Kim and Matt keep the box in a place of honor by ...
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March 6th, 2008
A Reform Jew Explores Her Fear of Orthodoxy
We see Rabbi X. walking down the streets of our small Southern city, and we see others staring at him. He wears the outfit of a Jew from Eastern ...
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March 5th, 2008
I grew up with the accoutrements of pipe organs
filling our garage, some as small as piccolos,
some arriving like giants in rough-hewn crates.
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March 3rd, 2008
A Jewish Mother Considers Family, Tradition and the Pain of Belonging
Eight days after birth, a Jewish male infant is circumcised in a ceremony called the bris milah (bris means "covenant" in Hebrew). It's a party: relatives and friends ...
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February 28th, 2008
The Mormon Church is busy growing (and challenging misconceptions)
"You're not true Christians," shouts the barrel-chested 43-year-old Lonie Pursifull to a group of Mormons passing through Temple Square, the world headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ ...
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February 26th, 2008
Young Catholics might be more serious about marriage than they are about the Church
Catholic young adults place great importance on marriage but have turned away from church-based ideas of how to make it work, according to a study released last week by the Center for Applied Research in ...
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February 15th, 2008
On being Black and Catholic in America
It was as if I was a kid again. The gospel choir numbering at least 30 strong lifted their voices to the rooftop. The pulse of the ...
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February 13th, 2008
Rather than condemning The Vagina Monologues
the Church should be listening to what it is telling us
"The split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the drama of our time," wrote Pope Paul VI in 1975. Occasionally I am reminded of this "drama" ...
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February 8th, 2008
An Orthodox Christian college student ponders salvation
So Heath Ledger passed away a few weeks ago, the final outcome of a long struggle with depression, substances, and wild living. While the thousands dying of starvation and ...
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January 30th, 2008
Ginny Kubitz Moyer's book, Mary and Me offers contemporary women's experience of the Blessed Mother
For many young women, their sense of Mary, mother of Jesus, is relatively one-dimensional. They recall a humble, pious woman who was submissive to both her husband and her God. Or she's the woman in ...
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January 22nd, 2008
Third Wheel: Is the married vs. single dynamic causing a strain in your friendships?
Anita, 26, had two close friends in college. These were the girls she could always call for a chat, who would be interested in planning a fun trip, going shopping, ...
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January 21st, 2008
Looking at Obama through King's eyes
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that ...
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January 18th, 2008
An illustrated slideshow
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January 15th, 2008
New prayer website encourages people to look for God bubbling up beyond Sunday
Food, water and shelter are universal needs that transcend borders, age, gender, race, class and religion. But a visit to www.Other6.com is enough to demonstrate that human beings hunger and thirst ...
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January 10th, 2008
Behar's bad "View" on Saints
Whoopi Goldberg is a great comedian. So is Joy Behar. But, as it turns out, they're not great theologians. On the daytime talk show "The View" this past Wednesday, ...
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January 7th, 2008
Young and restless
Justin Brandon has been weighing his options. The 25-year-old San Francisco resident recently applied to Stanford's highly competitive MBA program, but even if admitted, he isn't sure he wants ...
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December 21st, 2007
Christmas consolation...a belated obituary
It's a Wonderful Life, is a great story, and I hope yours is a Bedford Falls kind ...
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December 20th, 2007
The filmmaking brothers follow up their groundbreaking 9/11 documentary with In God's Name
On the morning of September 11, 2001 French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet—who had been working for three months on a documentary on firemen—found themselves filming inside the ...
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