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March 12th, 2008
Before I went to bed, I made sure I was clean. I purified the tub with all the soap in the tiny shampoo bottle. Immersed myself in ... |
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March 10th, 2008
Box, Wine and Love Letter In the living room of my next-door neighbors' house is a wooden crate. It's nothing fancy, just pieces of plywood nailed together, but Kim and Matt keep the box in a place of honor by ... |
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March 6th, 2008
A Reform Jew Explores Her Fear of Orthodoxy We see Rabbi X. walking down the streets of our small Southern city, and we see others staring at him. He wears the outfit of a Jew from Eastern ... |
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March 5th, 2008
I grew up with the accoutrements of pipe organs
filling our garage, some as small as piccolos,
some arriving like giants in rough-hewn crates.
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March 3rd, 2008
A Jewish Mother Considers Family, Tradition and the Pain of Belonging Eight days after birth, a Jewish male infant is circumcised in a ceremony called the bris milah (bris means "covenant" in Hebrew). It's a party: relatives and friends ... |
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February 28th, 2008
The Mormon Church is busy growing (and challenging misconceptions) "You're not true Christians," shouts the barrel-chested 43-year-old Lonie Pursifull to a group of Mormons passing through Temple Square, the world headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ ... |
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February 26th, 2008
Young Catholics might be more serious about marriage than they are about the Church Catholic young adults place great importance on marriage but have turned away from church-based ideas of how to make it work, according to a study released last week by the Center for Applied Research in ... |
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February 15th, 2008
On being Black and Catholic in America It was as if I was a kid again. The gospel choir numbering at least 30 strong lifted their voices to the rooftop. The pulse of the ... |
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February 13th, 2008
Rather than condemning The Vagina Monologues
the Church should be listening to what it is telling us "The split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the drama of our time," wrote Pope Paul VI in 1975. Occasionally I am reminded of this "drama" ... |
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February 8th, 2008
An Orthodox Christian college student ponders salvation So Heath Ledger passed away a few weeks ago, the final outcome of a long struggle with depression, substances, and wild living. While the thousands dying of starvation and ... |
