[…] Sister Mercedes Pico de Coello was dying of tuberculosis, coughing up blood. A frail and thin 43 -year–old mother of twelve, her life could probably have been saved for $200. As a missionary, I […]
[…] food needed to feed the malnourished of the world is simply wasted. The cost of relieving this human suffering is estimated to be $150 billion annually (1.5% of U.S. GDP or 0.5% of the […]
[…] merely exotic forms of literature. But this meant that religion is nothing more than a creation of human imagination . . . I realized I do not esteem Jesus as any greater a teacher […]
[…] social interaction and made to give up those benefits they received from acts of injustice. Critics of human justice systems decry the fact that the law can only punish but never restore to victims […]
[…] the victor over death and the devil. There is no greater story in all the annals of human myth and history. Christians celebrate this week, as Dennis Bratcher of the Christian Resource Institute says, […]
[…] for help. Since 2001 a blast of grief swallowed like debris from the heap of rubble and human remains on the streets of Manhattan, of the New York until then mesmerizing for its plays […]
[…] necessary condition for ultimate salvation (exaltation), and a preoccupation with procreation define as threatening any form of human sexuality that does not entail marriage and fertility. Thus, contemporary trends encouraging childless families, easier divorce, […]
[…] “two closely related meanings” for his neologism: It is, first of all, a way of thinking about human events that focuses on the ordinary, messy, quotidian facts of daily life—in short, on the prosaic. […]
[…] of modern cultural studies derived from classical anthropology. Basic to this perspective is the concept that the human body itself can be understood partly as an outcome of culture. The body (including the mind […]
[…] for more inquiry. But reason, like childcare, reverence, music, service, or gardening is only one of many human goods. I sustain a prophet as someone who can say something that is difficult and upsetting […]