Monks must be committed to a balanced, disciplined life of worship and life.
Sidney Callahan
Sidney Callahan, Ph.D., is an author, lecturer, college professor and licensed psychologist. Her most recent book is Created for Joy: A Christian View of Suffering.
Posted inIn All Things
Is Gender Equality Behind Global Pro-Family Revival?
Bad news about the family alarms both government and religious leaders More than ever it is obvious that only effective families can ensure a population rsquo s health economic and social welfare The church also knows that it depends upon families for faithful future members In the United States
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A Christian Response to Alzheimer’s
How can one prepare to lose the self-consciousness that makes self-offering worship possible?
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A New Theology of the Transgendered Body
Could writing a gender autobiography help us understand the emerging LGBT movement?
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Centering Prayer: Contemplative practice for the 21st century
The benefits of a stripped-to-essentials form of Christian monastic contemplation.
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Does secularism’s advance spell the end of religion as we know it?
ldquo In Secularism We Trust The Fate of Religion in the 21st nbsp Century rdquo this was the title of the presentation and discussion at Fordham Center on Religion and Culture last Tuesday Molly Worthen a historian of religion described the advance of secularization in America Harvey Cox an
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Woman Of All Seasons
Few works deliver on the promise of their title with such success as Mary Christine Athans rsquo s book on Mary The scholarship is solid the prose accessible and her personal reflections engaging The book can also be provocative since discussions of Mary lead to questions about the contested rol
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Placenta Power In The News
Language reveals traces of our culture’s ambivalence toward women’s procreative powers.
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James Carroll on Sainthood: A Rebuttal
Does the canonization process include ldquo a kind of church sponsored blasphemy rdquo James Carroll claimed in the Boston Globe that requiring two healing miracles for sainthood ldquo implies that God actively declines to intervene in countless other cases rdquo And this ldquo effectively ma
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Noah, Climate Change Hero
Noah is a timely hero Whatever Hollywood makes of his story in the Bible Noah is a just man who believes that catastrophic climate change is upon him and acts According to Jesus rsquo account of the ancient narrative Luke 17 27 ldquo Everybody kept on eating and drinking men and women marri