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September 11th, 2007
See, I am making all things new
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; ...
September 10th, 2007
My own dark night of the soul in Calcutta
A new book of the letters of Mother Teresa, edited by Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, a Missionaries of Charity priest who is responsible for presenting her case for sainthood to ...
September 6th, 2007
Talking with the author and NPR correspondent about justice in a post-9/11 America
The Lackawanna Six: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror is the deftly told story of six young men who got caught up in the quickly changing rules ...
September 6th, 2007
Review: The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror
When I stopped by a Guantanamo protest outside the UN on New York's east side last year, someone abruptly shoved a microphone and note card in my ...
August 27th, 2007
for my parents
Why should she want to meet the young preacher waiting in the sitting room? Paused on the landing, she fears his voice drifting up the ...
August 24th, 2007
A conversation with the author of Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, and Death...
In his new book Sit Down and Shut Up, former Zen Buddhist priest Brad Warner breaks the teachings of Dogen Zenji down into manageable chunks of ...
August 22nd, 2007
Young Iraqi refugees struggle to find peace and normalcy
"Yalla shebab!" cheered the collection of 14 or so boys as I and a fellow American student danced around the room. Traditional Arabic and Near Eastern dance is often ...
August 21st, 2007
Why young women can't get enough of Jane
When Jane Austen penned her novels of love and courtship in the early 1800s, she wrote about a world that is utterly foreign to most of us. Unmarried ...
August 15th, 2007
Commuting with the Blessed Mother
As any commuter knows, you can tell a lot about people by what they do on the subway. In the early hours of a weekday morning, heading to ...
August 14th, 2007
Trying to find normal again
As students from all over the country begin returning to their campuses, moving into their dorms and catching up with old friends, the students at Virginia Tech have a different set of tasks. They too ...
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