Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). The Apostle Paul implored, “If it is possible, so

MARCH 2007: ESSAY by L. Ann Jervis In Romans, Paul is convinced that believers take on sufferings in addition to those of the common lot

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MARCH 2007: POETRY by Trina Baker Panting, I breach the trees for the meadow. Feet leave behind the dirt, moist and fecund, packed beneath needles

MARCH 2007: REVIEW Dies Irae by Roy Anker The new note in films, both last year and this, seems to be dystopic. In a marked

MARCH 2007: REVIEW by Peter Bratt Just a week before the 2006 midterm elections, the Reverend Ted Haggard, head of the National Association of Evangelicals,

But I am a worm, and not human; scorned by others, and despised by the people. –Psalm 22:6 Are you a worm? Not a gummy

FEBRUARY 2007: POETRY Birdhouse Nailed up on the tree out back beyond junk mail and shopping bags, cell phones, talk of wrongs and holidays, its

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