What with the destruction of the ozone layer, God’s people need some serious eye protection.
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Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
In Brookville, Pennsylvania, a dispute over laws has shaken the otherwise quiet community.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
Actor Paul Newman, who died in September, founded the only global forum of business CEOs focused on increasing corporate philanthropy.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
A 2008 study commissioned by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good found that social policies that increase economic support to women in the U.S.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Northern Iraq is part of the contested homeland of ethnic Kurds—and until recently a safe haven for those escaping Baghdad’s violence, especially Chaldean Christians.
Ben Roth 12-01-2008
In her article “Changing Our Minds” (September-October 2008), Frances Moore Lappé suggests that the real barriers to an egalitarian society are the assumptions we have about pove
Lilyan Snow 12-01-2008
In her September-October 2008 letter (“Don’t Speak for Me”), Lisa Clark writes that she is not guilty for taking part in slavery, and that she does not want her state representati
Christopher W. Fuerst 12-01-2008
Shame on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Prison Entrepreneurship Program for not accepting sex offenders (“Investing in Second Chances,” by Catherine Cuellar, July 2008
Jeannie Choi 12-01-2008
The Gulf Coast—and New Orleans, specifically—is far from recovered after being ravaged in 2005 by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
In 2003, Ugandan Jewish coffee farmer J.J. Keki asked himself what he could do to stop religious violence.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
By the new year, the Vatican will go solar. In September, engineers began installing 2,000 solar panels designed by the German firm SolarWorld and given to the Vatican as an Epiphany gift.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Move over Guitar Hero, Guitar Praise is the new toy for the Christian heavy metal and power-rock set.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Get Fair, a United Kingdom-based coalition of religious and secular groups that launched in September, seeks to pressure politicians to end poverty in the U.K. by 2020. The alliance of more than 50 charities and faith-based institutions—including Oxfam, Islamic Aid, Iona Community, Caritas Social Action, and the Baptist Union of Great Britain, plus several denominations—cites survey data as evidence that politicians must do more to dramatically reduce domestic poverty.
The Editors 12-01-2008
The economic crisis presents particular challenges and questions for people of faith: What is the appropriate Christian response?
Rachel Guido deVries 12-01-2008
Imperfection is the place where the spirit enters,
the small hole in your shirt, the loosening threads
of carpet, the ache in your soul for forgiveness.