Category: The Lead

A homeless love story

Come Saturday, Dante and Nhiahni will marry. People will journey from every corner of Washington to see them exchange vows — wealthy Georgetowners and people who live on the city’s rough edges, all joining hands to celebrate the marriage of two gentle souls whose only address is the steam grates in the shadow of the U.S. Department of the Interior headquarters.

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Civilians and Combatants: is there a difference in war?

For Kasher and Yadlin, there no longer is a categorical distinction between combatants and noncombatants. But the distinction should be categorical, since its whole point is to limit wars to those—only those—who have the capacity to injure (or who provide the means to injure).

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Bullying and suicide

“The message to the most vulnerable, the victims of today’s poisonous boy culture, is being heard loud and clear: to be something other than the narrowest, stupidest sort of guy’s guy, is to be unworthy of even being alive.”

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Saturday collection 4/25/09

Here is our weekly collection plate, offering some of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print ? Christ Church Blacksburg, VA &#x2022 St. Margaret’s Lawrence, KS &#x2022 Calvary Episcopal Church and Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh &#x2022 Christ Church Winchester, VA &#x2022 St. Thomas’ Hamilton, NY

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Spiritual practice can grow your brain

The book argues that the human brain can only grasp a vague notion of what actually exists “out there,” and documents how the brain uses its perceptions to build useful models of the world, other people, morality, and God.

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