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The award for most surprisingly profound film of 2011 might go to Bridesmaids. This story of a woman trying to figure out her path in the midst of witness
Lauren F. Winner reviews The Furnace of Affliction: Prison and Religion in Antebellum America, by Jennifer Graber. UNC Press.
The mainstreaming of Rand is, in large part, the work of one man (and his money).
Humanitarian, award winning actress, and best-selling author Ashley Judd reflects on her faith and "true calling" -- social justice activism.
One man searches for balance between family and solitude, nature and technology.
In 1886, members of America's fledgling labor movement called a general strike for May 1 to demand an eight-hour work day.
Six books on the ongoing search for peace and justice in the Middle East and beyond.
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Women's ongoing search, in life and texts, for equality and empowerment.
Bio: Founded Empowering and Strengthing Ohio's People (ESOP) to stop predatory lending and home foreclosures. Website: www.esop-cleveland.org.
"A white man's country" became the multiracial, multicultural democracy we now inhabit.
Gareth Higgins reviews Batle: Los Angeles, Saving Private Ryan, and Chinatown.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press.
Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing.