Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) It’s universal for kids when they lose their way or skin their knees to call out for their parents. But from my experience as a parent, and now a grandparent, children more often cry for their mommy.
Religion Unplugged(OPINION) A thorough analysis of the autopsy reports for the 10 Kuki-Zo “village volunteers” killed in Manipur during an alleged gunbattle with the Central Reserve Police Force suggests that the young men were shot from behind or from multiple...
Religion Unplugged(ANALYSIS) Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.
Marginalia Review of BooksERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .
The Other JournalFor it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul. ―Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises You might approach the Jerusalem of the heart. —Scott Cairns,...
The Other JournalEach dilapidated in a different way— half-patched roof, porch sagging, two sideboards painted five different shades of purple to test out for a season a choice that may cause any number of arguments— or not, nothing in this town requiring...
The Other JournalWe want him gone— pretty boy fat with feasts and wine. Now he’s poor. Desert him! He chose his lot. As aging swine, we dare not share one crumb, least of all with him, whom we want gone. Split our scraps? God Almighty, it’s our home and up to us...
The Other JournalIn Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor. About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. Lydda was near Joppa; so...
The Other JournalThe most jarring pages in The Black Reparations Project are filled almost exclusively with numbers.A table is headed with the dry title “Annual Total Debt Estimates and Cumulative Debt Estimates at 3% Interest, 1776–1860” and dull column labels...
Religion News Service(RNS) — Scripture reminds us that we who labor for a multiracial democracy are not alone and that the work of justice and transformation is never solitary. The post The administration that’s taking shape is prompting fear in some. Let’s face it...