Nancy Drew and the Wine-Dark Sea
The importance of good literature—and how to get young people to read it.
Loving the Alien in Sickness and in Health
Too many recipients of health care today feel neither tolerated nor entitled, let alone loved
Vaclav Havel, Playwright Dissident Czech President…Who Is This Man?
A new biography of Václav Havel fills in important blanks, but omits his theology
Books & Culture Corner
An Open Letter to the U. S. Black Religious, Intellectual, and Political Leadership Regarding AIDS and the Sexual Holocaust in Africa
Spinning the Truth
Why we find a multitude of ways to avoid telling painful truth.
Hospice Care Hijacked?
A bottom-line, cost-efficient mentality obscures the movement’s original Christian vision.
The Battle over Assisted Death Is Just Starting
In Brief: September 01, 1997
Deadly Compassion (Part 1 of 3)
Some support physician-assisted suicide out of fear of a lonely, pain-filled death. Here are four professionals who are making the dying a part of the church’s ministry.
