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My Imperfect Caligraphy
by Rob Soley | January 2011
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Truth and Storytelling
by Gareth Higgins | January 2011
It's a golden age for documentaries. +Read More

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by Julie Polter | January 2011
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Community's Messy Grace
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | January 2011
The Gifts of the Small Church by Jason Byassee. Abingdon Press. +Read More

Rwanda Revisited

by Becky Garrison | January 2011
The makers of the film Earth Made of Glass on finding truth after genocide. +Read More

Taking Sin Seriously
by Rev. Lawrence W. Althouse | January 2011
"The Theology of the Tea Party" (by Jim Wallis, November 2010) reminded me that when I was at Union Seminary, Reinhold Niebuhr said that the greatest flaw of the communist system was ignoring what +Read More

Countering Stereotypes
by Dr. Susan Gore | January 2011
As Adam Taylor writes in your November issue, we truly are "One in the Body." I am compelled to offer a factual correction, however. +Read More

Prioritizing The Sabbath
by Jeaneene Nooney | January 2011
My husband and I, too, have been long concerned with Sabbath-keeping ("All Who Labor," by Lauren Winner, September-October 2010). +Read More

The Worst Place to be a Woman
by Tom Austin | January 2011
It was good to learn in Lynne Hybel's "The Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman" (September-October, 2010) how local churches and groups such as World Relief are aiding the victims of the sickening e +Read More
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