Volume 42, Number 12
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by Christine J. Gardner
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Croatian Miroslav Volf wanted to love his Serbian enemies; the Prodigal's father is showing him how.
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What kind of world would this be if people were rewarded for squandering their families' inheritance?
Barbara Brown Taylor
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The Clinton factor and tensions with the GOP test the mettle of religious conservatives.
John W. Kennedy
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A Jewish rabbi asks: Why shouldn't abortion in Israel be compared to the mass murder of Jewish children in Hitler's Europe?
Jacob Neusner
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The surprisingly relevant advice of a Dutch statesman for engaging postmodern culture.
Richard J. Mouw
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The temptation is to appeal to "common sense" as to what is time-bound and what is not.
By Craig S. Keener
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A dying Nazi asked concentration-camp inmate Simon Wiesenthal for forgiveness—and so he asks us, What would you have said?
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In a society strongly marked by "rights" rather than social obligation, everything becomes negotiable.