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Giving up reading: A Lenten discipline
The Monday after Easter, Hannah and Jim threw a party. We’d been instructed to bring our contraband—whatever we gave up for Lent: Beer. Chocolate. Something caffeinated. A friend of Jim’s turned up with a case of retsina. Sherri brought teddies, push-up bras, silky slips and garter belts.
Deadlines: Faith at Work
Louie Armstrong is supposed to have said, “Never mind creativity, man, just give me a deadline.” It’s a beautiful credo, one with which any self-supporting writer or artist can readily identify. As Armstrong doubtless knew, there are times when a deadline doesn’t diminish the inspiration; it is the inspiration.
Books
Long way home
Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Budhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment by Richard Bernstein...
In God's house
Heaven in Stone and Glass: Experiencing the Spirituality of the Great Cathedrals by Robert Barron ...
Starting out
Open Secrets: A Spiritual Journey Through a Country-Church by Richard Lischer...
Captive church
The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South by Charles Marsh...
Mothers at work
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden...
Death and dying
Life Lessons by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross...
Life of prayer
The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape by Phyllis Tickle...
The college try
Quality with Souls: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions by Robert Benne...
Coming of age
The Virgin of Bennington by Kathleen Norris...
Departments
A wise heart
When I think of the people who have had a special impact on my life, who were catalysts in my formation, I think especially of Joseph Sittler....
The prayer of Jabez
And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted ...
Surrounded by life
Heiko Augustinus Oberman, born 15 October 1930 in Utrecht, died in Tucson on 22 April 2001. He was as notable as anyone could be in the field of Christian history—a field that he helped make rich and notable....
A living wage: Dollars and sense
One of the characters in Marshall Jevons's mystery novel Murder at the Margin is a Harvard Divinity School professor named Matthew Dyke, who at one point complains about the exploitation of low-wage workers....