NOVEMBER 2007: AS WE SEE IT “Thou shalt place outside thy door a vat of fat. And this shalt be a sign unto the angel

NOVEMBER 2007: ESSAY On Those Always With Us by Thomas Allbaugh In 1972, I landed my first job, at a diner near the YMCA in

I recently had a conversation with a young man who was part of the Soulforce- sponsored Equality Ride that toured Christian colleges and universities in

I have been raising money for more than twenty five years, first for a moderately liberal Protestant seminary and now for a recovery center for

NOVEMBER 2007: REVIEW What does it mean to engage in a spiritual reading of the Bible? How do we read the Bible not for information

NOVEMBER 2007: INSIDE OUT These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better

NOVEMBER 2007: POETRY Bird Tired, chest out, she will not leave this morning, a blue fall day among the rainy ones. Maybe she will make

The new weapons “package” and containment strategy that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have been peddling around the

“There’s a future in strenuous wholeness” (Ps. 37:38, The Message) Our natural track is brokenness. Without a strenuous effort in the other direction, we will