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God's unchanging call to heal and to care.
Catholic bishops evaluate welfare reform.
Tom Sine 3-01-1995

The Religious Right has hijacked American evangelicalism and made it an aberration in the global evangelical community.

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-1994
Flannery O'Connor and the healing of Southern culture
Shane Helmer 12-01-1994

Jesus spoke all these things in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. -Matthew 13:34

Story penetrates our souls and is woven into our being.

Alice Walker 12-01-1994

I discovered O'Connor when I was in college in the North and took a course in Southern writers and the South.

Julie Polter 12-01-1994

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. -Flannery O'Connor

The Body of Christ is the incarnation

Joel C. Trinidad 11-01-1994

Bitter and burnt-out is a wonderful way to gain a new outlook on life.

Darrell Armstrong 11-01-1994

When I first heard the phrase "Generation X," I thought it was in reference to a new generation of black youth who were moved to thought, dialogue, and action...

The fax machine said, White. Whiner.

Rodolpho Carrasco 11-01-1994

The majority of Generation X Latinos perceive that our faith sects (both Catholic and Protestant) have little to say about the issues that affect us most: technology-induced future shock, a nati

Jeremy Lloyd 11-01-1994

Permeated by its own brand of consumerism, church-ianity force-feeds me a conditional message, requiring my allegiance to authority and beliefs, and masks it all as "faith."

Debbie McLaughlin 11-01-1994

Faith is for me a mix of intellect straining to understand God, my senses, and what Van Morrison calls "the inarticulate speech of the heart." Music, the water and mountains of my Puget Sound ho

Piper Lowell 11-01-1994

It’s not that we’re whiny. We’re cynical and isolated.

Various Authors 11-01-1994
Christian Twenty Somethings Challenge the Stereotypes.
Patty King 11-01-1994

On a cold, piney evening last November on the Day of the Dead, residents of the Guatemalan town of Santiago were holding a night-long vigil in the town cemetery.

Jarrett Kerbel 11-01-1994

"Peace is our Profession" proclaims the billboard at the gate of the Air Force base where I was born in 1966.

Jessica Brown 11-01-1994

Sometimes I feel as though I do not have time for God. In some ways, this is the legacy that has been passed on to my generation.

Shane Helmer 11-01-1994

This radical Jesus, this social gospel, this promise of liberation are always and forever in the back of my mind.