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October 30, 2009: Building a Monastery of the Heart
"Is there anyone here who yearns for life and desires to see good days?" Those stirring words come at the beginning of one of the most durable spiritual guides of all time, the Rule of St. Benedict.
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September 25, 2009: THE FUTURE OF FAITH by Harvey Cox
Read an excerpt from Harvard theologian Harvey Cox's new book, "The Future of Faith."
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September 25, 2009: Psalms for the High Holy Days
Read new translations of three psalms that are part of the liturgy of the Jewish High Holy Days.
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson
"The holy is at the origins of everything that exists," says the author of the prize-winning novels "Gilead" and "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.
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September 18, 2009: HOME by Marilynne Robinson
Read an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's latest novel "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson: The Novelist as Theologian
Marilynne Robinson's Calvinist Protestantism imbues her with a fierce political liberalism grounded in Scripture and informs the respect with which she describes small movements of character and conversation.
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September 18, 2009: Seek My Face
In the words of a new translation of Psalm 27, the psalm most associated with the Jewish High Holidays, "Your face, God, is what I constantly search for."
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May 22, 2009: Homage and Commemoration
At the memorial for the American dead of Vietnam, writes Lorrie Goldensohn, we meet as a community and are made to see that "we are always at one with the living and the dead."
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The prolific and best-selling author Jodi Picoult writes "ethical thrillers" about contentious issues such as the death penalty, organ donation, euthanasia, sexual abuse, date rape, teen suicide, and school shootings.
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