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What do you hear about the flu?

The cartoon sketch is of family gathered around the television, crouching and trembling, faces screwed up in anticipatory horror and fear.
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Simple gifts

At 3:00 p.
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Healing without hope? Sure

Last Month an incident briefly captured headlines in Southern California.
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Last August, a small news item caught my attention because it was so unbelievable.
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What hath spam wrought?

The short answer to my question is: Nothing but trouble.
The words weren't new to me, but hearing them read recently at a church service, I really took them in and let them change me: "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty".
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Last week , from the Baghdad neighborhood of al-Shaab came cries of anger and despair.
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No curse to reverse

WHEN THE LEAVES START TO TURN in New England, the thoughts of many Americans turn to playoff baseball.
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When rites become wrongs

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Prayer for the Middle East

Last spring , in preparation for a conference I was co-directing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I gave a lot of thought to identifying what I perceived to be the barriers to peace in the Middle East.

The two sides of innocence

CAN CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE, and even wonder, be recaptured?
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HERE'S ONE VIEW of our common future: acute environmental destruction; islands of wealth amid oceans of poverty; overlapping epidemics; conflict over diminishing natural resources; anarchy.