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November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor

November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor

Some have called Flannery O'Connor our only great Christian writer, a Catholic from the Deep South who said her subject was “the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.”

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 62   
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November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview

November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview

"For Flannery O'Connor, race was indeed the curse of the South in the sense that it was the single most important test which we as white Christians failed."

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 1   Views: 84   
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November 20, 2009: Father Thomas Joseph White Extended Interview

November 20, 2009: Father Thomas Joseph White Extended Interview

Reading Flannery O'Connor "was the first time I had read a Christian thinker or writer who I thought was impressive intellectually and challenging."

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 45   
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November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek on Faith and Grief

November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek on Faith and Grief

In a new book about inspirational poet Mattie Stepanek, who died in 2004, his mother Jeni writes about his short life and lasting legacy.

Posted: Nov 13th, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 148   
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November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek Extended Interview

November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek Extended Interview

Read and watch more of Kim Lawton's interview with Jeni Stepanek, who says her son, best-selling poet and speaker Mattie Stepanek, had "a universal message--give and you shall receive."

Posted: Nov 13th, 2009  Comments: 3   Views: 133   
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November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall

"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 310   
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November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview

Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness."

Posted: Nov 6th, 2009  Comments: 7   Views: 296   
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October 30, 2009: The Monastic Life

October 30, 2009: The Monastic Life

There will always be a purpose to monastic life, say the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, as long as there is a need in the world for silence, prayer, simplicity, and balance.

Posted: Oct 30th, 2009  Comments: 18   Views: 381   
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October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

Watch National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent John L. Allen Jr. and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discuss the Roman Catholic Church's plan to absorb unhappy Anglicans wishing to become Catholics.

Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009  Comments: 8   Views: 304   
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October 23, 2009: Doctors, Patients, and Prayer

October 23, 2009: Doctors, Patients, and Prayer

Doctors who pray with patients and family members "puts a sense of comfort in you," says Chris Barkley. "Normally, doctors don't do that, and it probably makes people feel closer to the doctor. You want them to care just as much as you do."

Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 309   
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