…on Psychotropic Substances Act of 1971 to “Hoasca” (ayahuasca) use by the New Mexican group. The suit was filed with the help of Jeffrey Bronfman, heir to the Seagrum corporation,…
…for living faithful lives in the Promised Land. Let’s fast forward to the prophets of the 8th century, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah. Each reports a call to prophecy at…
…says that, while many of us go searching through the scripture looking for rules which will tell us what to do, what we find instead, particularly in Luke-Acts, is what…
…Christian notion of caritas seeks to reconcile the human search after the divine through the love of fellow human beings. The command to love one’s neighbor is a charged dictum:…
…4 of season 4’s Assembly Podcast, “The Unnatural Costs of Healthcare” as we debate and explore how the healthcare system’s historical denigration of spirituality and religion incurs an unnatural cost…
…Augustus, [himself] Augustus” (TI[BERIVS] CAESAR DIVI AUG[VSTI] F[ILIUS] AUGVSTVS). On the reverse side of the coin was a seated woman who personified Pax (Rome’s “peace” through coercion and domination). Surrounding…
…such that the bullets themselves are like little selves, in search of a body that can serve as the unifying pole of their propriety. If there is no self to…
…bed, and the demon gone. 31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the…
…sea change that has taken place nationally on this issue, literally within months. My own Presbyterian Church USA, which defeated an overture that would have allowed gay and lesbian ordination…
…and irresolute. The Latin American populists had their widest appeal in a time of dislocation, when millions of Latin Americans were leaving the countryside in search of greater opportunities in…
…characterizes the most elevated manifestation of human existence. This leads to one of the questions that seem to haunt Walzer’s book: is Walzer searching the Hebrew bible for something that…
…we cast aside the politics of resentment, self-justification, and blame and begin an honest search for identifying the visible spiritual sutures whereby our fragmented oikos can be put back together….