Our top story this month has the theological world "all in a tizzy," which in the original Greek means "something much too nuanced for you to understand since you’re just a lay person."
Columns
James W. Douglass 5-01-1994
Jim Douglass traveled to Bosnia to continue his work of building support for a peace pilgrimage of world religious leaders to Sarajevo.
Joyce Hollyday 5-01-1994
Dreams are the language of God, I’m told. If that’s the case, God has some wild ways of communicating.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1994
The glare of the camera lights showed the anguish on Joseph Bernardin’s face as he arrived at the annual meeting of U.S. Catholic bishops last November in Washington, D.C.
Carey Burkett 5-01-1994
Let’s say you’ve just walked into the grocery store and on the way to pick up some onions you notice a healthy sized mound of eggplant, with glossy, deep purple skin shining under the florescent lights.
Marybeth Shea 4-01-1994
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. —Chinese Proverb
Jim Wallis 4-01-1994
Not in polite company. That’s where you were not supposed to talk about either politics or religion. Remember?
Rose Marie Berger 4-01-1994
We got off the 11th Street bus in downtown Washington and headed toward the people gathering on the 10th Street overpass. A man in his early 40s fell into step with us.
Jim Wallis 2-01-1994
Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, a group of evangelical Christians met together in the dilapidated Chicago YMCA on Wabash Street.
Carey Burkett 2-01-1994
FEASTING IS JUST half the story. To have "Sunday dinner" implies plainer weekday meals. Holiday banquets include foods not seen the rest of the year.
Ed Spivey Jr. 2-01-1994
The enormous challenge of revamping our nation's health care system has congressional leaders promising to work harder than ever. Some are even considering returning to work after lunches.
Joyce Hollyday 2-01-1994
As we prepare once more to commemorate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., and to celebrate Black History Month, I am grateful to have encountered the Delany sisters.
Carey Burkett 1-01-1994
MY 1994 NEW YEAR'S resolution - to break loose from serious menu ruts by planning further ahead - has already led to more time at a favorite activity: paging through cookbooks.
Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1994
A full moon. A plunge in temperature. Transylvania County, North Carolina. Conditions were just right for Halloween...
Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-1994
Well, that's some magazine so far, eh? Malevolent global corporations, the bleakness of Nicaragua, and the Holocaust. What is this, National Public Radio? I've seen more laughs in a jar of mustard.
Jim Wallis 1-01-1994
The widespread popular discontent that so defined the 1992 election campaign continued unabated into the first year of the new president's term. It would not have mattered who won.
