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Hispanics, Immigration and the WarAbove any other concern, it was the Iraq warspecifically, the U.S.
What Price Diversity?
Fifty-three years ago, the moral issue that most preoccupied the national conscience was not posed by a misbegotten war abroad but by racial discrimination against African-American school children at
Articles
A Necessary Dialogue
The surprise and happy outcome of the papal visit to Turkey in late November might best be summarized in the pope’s own words to Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey’s department of religious affairs: “T
A Time to Ponder
More than 40 years have passed since Nov.
Building Inclusive Communities
The population of the United States reached 300 million in October 2006, tripling in size in less than 100 years (in 1915 the population was 100 million).
Books and Culture
Books
In the past few years we have been exposed to displays of moral evil (9/11/01) and natural catastrophes (the tsunami in 2004, hurricanes
Books
Professor Bart Ehrman, chair of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), has written a widely use
Books
No one’s life runs a straight course. There are arrows and roadblocks and turns we take that influence the subsequent journey.
Film
Suppose Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib are not merely momentary aberrations, but rather preludes to even stronger responses to the threat of t
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