…ever get us away from it”[1] – Billy Sunday, professional baseball player turned revivalist. When the San Diego Padres open their season against the Dodgers on a Sunday evening next…
…harvesting season for coffee beans. That year, despite the exorbitant increases in the cost of a cup of coffee at local coffee shops in wealthy countries, wholesale prices for coffee…
…The Dutch were the quintessential merchants of the early modern era, hauling by sea all types of goods from one corner of the planet to the other, all the while…
…for. This text calls humanity to hopeful preparedness, it exhorts the audience to eagerly expect emerging transformation. This weeks gospel text moves us closer to advent, a season of preparation,…
…The legacy of the region in terms of its connection with the global political structures over the sea network in the early colonial period was well studied. Many of such…
…than ten sons?” 9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside…
…when they got on the train he had a seat, and they did not. One of the women was sleepy, so my dad gave up his seat for her, then…
…best magnifying glass.’”[9] Shulman’s seminar forces a practice of thinking elegantly captured in Alice Walker’s dedication to In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, “To my daughter Rebecca /…
…complicating his search for identity and self-worth. Jacob becomes the victim of deception a few times in his life. Before the meeting with Esau, Jacob had arrived in Haran, where…
…of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment. (p.5). We may search for technological answers to the multiple ecological problems…
…runs and make 30 stolen bases in a single season. That year he also was the first Yankee to strike out more than 150 times in a season (157, almost…
…Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, had become a devotee of the Princeton political philosopher Philip Pettit in 2000, when Zapatero was leader of the opposition searching for how to envision…