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August 7th, 2007
A man from a fundamentalist family, a freethinking woman— what does the future hold?
Their son was dating a heathen. That's what it was, in the end: a woman set to go to Hell and take their son with her by doing ...
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August 3rd, 2007
Memories of my brother and a Quaker girlhood
The Quaker meetinghouse I attended as a child had four rooms. The large, boxy room in the middle was for worship and held rows of padded black folding ...
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August 2nd, 2007
Our search for order in the darkness
A friend of mine just left her husband. She told me that she had been unhappy in the marriage for a long time but couldn't find a way ...
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August 1st, 2007
The former New York Times reporter and author of the new book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear, talks about politics, abortion, and what women say in private about our political leaders
Melinda Henneberger, a former reporter for The New York Times and a former contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, spent 18 months talking to 234 women in 12 states—both "red" and "blue"—about ...
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July 31st, 2007
Does Springfield Get Religion?
In a recent print "interview" with USA Today, Homer Simpson explains his theology this way: "Every time I see my sweet girl Lisa, I believe in God. Every time ...
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July 30th, 2007
At the base of the Taos mountains,
a fragmented tree, victim
of a lightning strike. As I ...
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July 27th, 2007
The book that will make me rich and famous.
Yesterday I was stalked by Jane Austen. Every corner I turned at my local bookstore, there she was—her name emblazoned across titles in the New Fiction and New Non-Fiction ...
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July 26th, 2007
The former Missouri Senator (and ordained Episcopal priest) discusses how "moral values" have polarized America
When Missouri Republican John Danforth began his political career in 1968, he was already an ordained Episcopal priest. He was elected to the ...
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July 25th, 2007
Why recent reports of the death of God are greatly exaggerated
Sam Harris's The End of Faith (2004) has spawned a viral strain of books viscerally denigrating religion. Everything from Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (2006) and Daniel Dennett's Breaking ...
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July 19th, 2007
A Response to Reverend Storm
There has been considerable dismay, especially among Protestants, regarding the document issued on July 10th by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). Rev. Astrid Joy ...
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