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Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Katie Hochstedler I was disappointed with Sojourners on reading "Family Matters" (by Julie Polter, January 2007). ...

A Church Problem
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Harvey Yoder LMFT In "Breaking the Holy Hush" (January 2007), Gail Martin makes the astonishing claim (attributed to Catherine C ...

A Man of Faith
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis My dad was always one to deflect attention from himself and give the glory to God. On the morning ...

Family Matters
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:23am | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter How to defend the family more. In the waning days of the 2006 election campaign, it appeared that ...

Breaking the 'Holy Hush'
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:24am | Type: Magazine Article

Gail Martin Evangelicals find new resources to address domestic violence. The U.S. Department of Justice estim ...

Covenant for A New America
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank Poverty solutions that transcend ideology. Last fall, Hurricane Katrina opened a window of awarene ...

Progressive Family Values
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

James Ferguson A recent poll conducted for PBS’s Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly surveyed 1,130 adults about faith and family. ...

The Cost of Prisons
Originally Posted: 03/20/2013 - 4:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tom Montgomery-Fate The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, d ...

Taking Back Our Kids
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 4:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Polly Duncan Collum Child rearing, never an easy endeavour, has bec ...

Secret Siblings
Originally Posted: 05/06/2011 - 2:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

S. Scott Bartchy Paul's letters talk about Jesus' radical new vision of believers as family. But some Bible translations miss th ...

More Than Family
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Chris Rice The continuing scandal is summed up in a 1997 Gallup Poll: The Christian church remains the one "highly segregated" m ...

Home At Last
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum Notes from a small southern town. "You can't go home again." So novelist Th ...

What Is Family?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kristine Jensen It is a clear fall day in 1986 and I am walking the block home from the bus stop. It is my second month of high school; I ...

Ayumi's Gift
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Valerie Schultz Sometimes self-knowledge can be gleaned from the most unlikely of sources. From a glimpse of sunset, or a chance reading o ...

Suffer Not the Children
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kathy McGinnis What makes raising kids so tough? I have two images of Jesus in my mind as I read The War Aga ...

Escalating Love
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

James McGinnis Anne Marie Hansen Jesus' words as he wept over Jerusalem are probab ...

A False Dilemma
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:33pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ann Barnet Richard Barnet Parenting is key--but so is good day care. ...

A Modern Salvation Story
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Joe Nangle The drama that unfolded in the arrest and court proceedings of Theodore Kaczynski deserves serious, even prayerful, reflection. ...