Volume 53, Number 12
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Recent remarks on faith healing, immigration, runaway Rifqa Bary, and the flu.
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Why, Lord, do you allow this time, of all times, to become for some a memorial of searing pain?
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Author Dinesh D'Souza says new scientific thinking bolsters the case for life after death.
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The Dickens classic is not just charming. It's also brutally realistic about the world, then and now.
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What the two genealogies of Christ, found in Matthew and Luke, are really trying to say.
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Do even Christians operate from 'brazen self-interest' in interacting with others and with God?
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Thomas Merton's letters, the law and theology of illegitimacy, and Victorian photocollage.
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John Wigger explains how Francis Asbury left his fingerprints all over American Christianity.
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