Jan Hoffman in the NYTimes details the days and nights of a hospital chaplain in Offering Comfort to the Sick and Blessings to Their Healers.
There is no African who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority.
Monks of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist (SSJE) are joining forces with a member of the Massachusetts National Guard to help men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan find a safe place to heal.
There is a crisis only in the minds of a few overly anxious people, in the pens of reporters eager to sell newspapers, in the keystrokes of some obsessed bloggers … and in the preaching of some clergy who might benefit from being a bigger fish in a smaller pond. But to most people, most of the time, there is just the church.
“The Bible was the world’s first Wikipedia article. So many hands have altered and edited the now lost originals that we will never know for sure what those originals said,” writes Doug Brown in his review of Bart D. Ehrman’s book, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.
The Rev. Jan Nunley, the Episcopal Church’s deputy for communications, has picked apart a sensationalistic story in The New York Times that may have left readers with the false impression that a man who left the adult film industry six months ago is on the fast track toward becoming a priest.
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God has returned to Europe. So reports The Wall Street Journal. The question is, why? The WSJ offers up the supply-side theory, and the facts appear to fit.
The Pew Research Center has released a new study that shows a marked increase in the desire for part-time work versus full-time work in recent years. The preference for full time work has dropped for both stay-at-home moms and working moms. Fathers, on the the other hand, still prefer full-time work.
The American Psychological Association is doing a review of its policy on counseling GLBT persons, and the result may be to stop counseling that aims to “convert” sexuality to heterosexuality. Several conservative groups are not happy.