October 4, 2004
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From the Editors
When our editorial team first
decided to offer some spiritual perspectives on obesity, we couldn't even guess how much space other magazines would be giving to it.
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"Oscar wilde's classic
, The Picture of Dorian Gray, tells the fascinating tale of a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, who sells his soul for the opportunity to remain forever young.
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LOTS OF PEOPLE TODAY
—especially in Western societies—are living large.
There's a spiritual approach to the growing epidemic of obesity around the world—one that offers results through focusing on your outlook instead of your intake.
Here are five beauty tips that don't require you to lose pounds, curb your carbs, or buy expensive products.
Understanding the spiritual meaning behind the words is powerful.
With Europeans facing a new battle of the bulge, this writer sees the need "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
God isn't keeping score, judging us according to our daily good and bad deeds. He loves us no matter what.
Verses from the Bible become an instant prayer when the news goes out about an abducted teenage girl.
Americans
live in a Supersize culture—big cars, big houses, and big people—the last brought on by a diet of junk food and Big Macs.
I came across this photograph the other day while searching for new images for greeting cards.
The wording of insurance policies
and other contracts often refers to "acts of God" when designating disastrous events over which humans have no control—hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the like—in contrast with the havoc caused by people, such as wars or environmental damage.
During the last few years
, in addition to my regular job, I've enjoyed being a volunteer baseball coach.
The next in our continuing series on what church membership can do for you, your neighbor, and the world.
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In the face of the events
in Beslan, Russia, where children became the strategic target of terrorists—separatists on the fringes of the Muslim world—life in many parts of the world came to a halt.
I can remember thinking: "Well, either you believe it, or you don't."
This
past summer, my husband and I spent three weeks staying in an apartment friends had made available to us near Florence, Italy.
One
Friday afternoon several years ago, I was alone in the house, standing on a chair in the dinning room, hanging curtains I'd taken down to wash.
Lately
it seems as though every third cover story in the popular newsweeklies is about what we eat, or should not be eating.
