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Church: Socks Are Optional but Grace is Required

Cathleen Falsani 9-27-2011

September 18 was National Back to Church Sunday. It's OK. I missed it, too.

His Name is Potlako

Alan Storey 6-07-2011

His name is Potlako. Potlako means "earlier than expected," I suppose he was named Potlako because he was either a premature baby or he followed soon -- too soon -- after his elder brother.

Report From Afghanistan: The Human Toll of Obama's 'Good War'

Eric Stoner 3-04-2011

In December, as the United States entered the 10th year of what President Obama called the "good war" in Afghanistan, I traveled to Kabul to take stock of the human toll of the increasingly bloody occupation.

Xenophobic Border Watch Groups are Domestic Terrorists

Cesar Baldelomar 2-16-2011

On May 30, 2009, a terrorist attack in Arizona ended the lives of two U.S. citizens -- a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter.

The Implications of Calling Cordoba House a "Mosque"

Melvin Bray 8-18-2010

Islam did not attack America on Sept. 11 -- terrorists did.

Fort Hood Shootings and the Prophetic 'IF'

Arthur Waskow 11-06-2009

One reader wrote me to ask: " "What effect will the Fort Hood shootings have on the American public's perception of Islam?" That question asks us to be foretellers, fortune tellers, to predict.

'Offensive Play': Why I've Watched My Last Superbowl

Ernesto Tinajero 10-27-2009

Humans drug themselves with violence. Violence has been and continues to be a path for cathartic release and for entertainment.

How Our Health-Care System Wrecks People Who Play by the Rules

Steve Taylor 10-05-2009

Recently, I learned that my parents' home is being foreclosed on.

Roman Polanski and the Politics of Remembering

Gareth Higgins 9-30-2009

I'm reluctant to comment regarding film-maker Roman Polanski's arrest and the attempt to extradite him to the U.S.