Back when I was a student at Wichita (Kan.) State University in the mid-1970s, students (and faculty) from the philosophy department used to debate students (and faculty) from the psychology department at the student union about free will vs. determinism …
We are parents of young adult sons who were mild on the autism spectrum but now have significantly recovered. We write to raise awareness and concerns about the article “We’re All Connected and Therefore All Potentially Infected” …
I wish I could say that people come to church for my sermons. The pews are filled instead because we want to be there to hear the prayers, sharing aloud our joys and concerns, bringing them before God and receiving each voice as an invitation into the body of Christ. Through prayer our lives are mingled, becoming part of one another …
The wonder is that the U.S. Army even wanted four young Hutterite farmers from the Rockport Colony in South Dakota. Soldiering was most assuredly not in their DNA. The communal church to which they belonged had been resolutely set against all warfare for 400 years …
On Christmas Day 1989, Madeline Maldonado sat at her sister-in-law’s church.
Her life seemed to be unrolling like the typical American’s: She was married, pregnant and educated—in airplane mechanics. But she was unhappy …
