Day: December 16, 2005

Science on Purpose

Apparently the debate over Intelligent Design (ID) is not going away. Perhaps that should read, “the debates.” Beyond the debate over human origins and who

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How Not to Bless the Nations

The king was understandably upset. In a single night it had all unraveled. What had started out as an inviting series of developments had taken

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Remembering Brother Roger of Taizé

Roger Schutz, the founder of the Taizé Community–and its leading light over the past sixty years of its existence–died unexpectedly and violently in late August.

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Three Sonnets

Indictment of a Passive Voice Discussions on our prayer nights confuse As much as clarify how we’re to live. One friend asserts our peace demands

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Neither Secular nor Sectarian

James C. Kennedy and Caroline J. Simon, of the history and philosophy departments at Hope College, have written a remarkably candid and insightful book about

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His Holy Temple

Every Sunday morning of my youth, the words fell from the pulpit like the solemn tolling of a bell: “The Lord is in his holy

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