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Hunger and poverty are the result of our sinful selfishness that subverts values and warps distribution systems.
In this book, Anchee Min admirably achieves her goal: t
Many churches are choosing to show videos as an alternative to readings or drama.
Jakob Dylan’s latest album opens with this: “God wants us busy, never giving up / He wants nothing but the whole wide worl
According to Sir Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” And accor
How do you love someone who is hard to love?
In Bowling Alone (Touchstone), Robert D.
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion—the same survey as Christian Smith’s Soul Searching—this fascinati
Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.
When Patricia MacLachlan was asked to write a book about her life as an author, she responded with a fictional account of a visiting&n
Olivia Tschetter leaves her doctoral defense to learn that her mother has died.
Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Is it proper to say “different from” or “different than”?
Forty years after the birth of the band Led Zeppelin, former lead singer Robert Plant has been reborn as an interpreter of Americana r
So far no one has asked me to join The Academy in voting on who should win the Oscars.
Sigh No More, the latest album from Mumford and Sons, is a rousing chorus of blue
This book may not be one you’d nat
Fans of Over the Rhine will agree that The Long Sur
Rabbit Hole is challenging, not only because of the subject—Osca
Not sure you really want to see a western? Maybe you wonder what the quirky Coen brothers would make of the genre?
The Land Between by by Jeff Manion
Finding God in Difficult TransitionsAuthor Jeff Manion reflects on the Israelites’ wanderings in the Sinai desert to teach readers lessons on living for God’s
In his jeans and red Reeboks, Jon Troast is relaxed on stage.
All Alone
by Donald W. Berghuis
The Tyranny of E-Mail by by John Freeman
The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your InboxIn his astute critique of e-mail, John Freeman frames the vast changes wrought by the Internet in the context of 4,000 years of histor