The Bible is certainly a book of faith. But it also records the struggle to gain understanding. For this reason it speaks eloquently to contemporary questions about God.
[From a letter to the editor of a Soviet magazine, quoted in Small Fires: Letters From the Soviet People to Ogonyok Magazine 1987–1990, selected and edited by Marina Albee and Christopher Cerf.
When we begin to feel that materialism just couldn't be "all there is," we start looking beyond it for meaning. But, as this writer discovered, the real meaning of life is not beyond our reach.
Families climbing atop the Berlin Wall, a young man facing a tank in China, children carrying machine guns in Latin America, and the Gulf War—the list goes on.
Even if home and family haven't been the happiest place, each one of us still yearns for the love that fathering and mothering represent. This author explores some of her lessons about true parenthood.
