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Features : Religion & Spirituality
May 1st, 2006
United 93 honors losses that are both national and personal
The fact that we know how director Paul Greeengrass' United 93 ends somehow makes the film all the more harrowing to watch. We know that the doomed September 11th flight out of Newark airport will ...
April 20th, 2006
A Guide to the new reality show God or the Girl
With its mix of equal parts "The Bachelor" and "Jackass" with a spiritual twist, A&E's new reality series, "God or the Girl" has people talking. The ...
April 7th, 2006
Colliding head-on with religion (and myself) deep in the heart of Dixie
Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...
April 6th, 2006
A Danish reader offers some perspective
I was randomly surfing the web when I found your article on the Mohammed cartoons and, though it did offer insight into the Muslim thinking, I have to admit that I ...
March 22nd, 2006
Surviving my husband's heart attack
At 11pm on February 9th my husband started with pain in his chest. At midnight he woke me up and said, "I don't think I'm ok." We drove ...
March 13th, 2006
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005
A quick glance at the "inspiration" section in any large bookstore is all one needs to determine that books classified as spiritual writing occupy a large tent. Joseph ...
February 21st, 2006
Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do. When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of "365 saints, prophets and witnesses for ...
January 25th, 2006
A Portland parish becomes devoted to the environment
On the long list of social justice causes that the Catholic Church advocates for, issues like poverty and the right to life are usually foremost in people's minds. ...
January 24th, 2006
Wisdom, courage and a good family life, the Old Testament's Deborah "had it all"
Ok, I admit it…in the Bible the men pulled off some pretty incredible feats: Moses parted the sea; Elijah called down fire from heaven to incinerate the wicked priests of Baal; ...
January 12th, 2006
Critic Harold Bloom wrestles with God in Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ...
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