According to an August 15 2013 ldquo Field Notes rdquo feature in The New York Times ldquo Before Saying lsquo I Do rsquo Define Just What You Mean rdquo many brides and grooms are resurrecting a 1960s and 70s tradition nbsp They are again nbsp ldquo choosing to say vows they have writ

nbsp I have just finished reading N T Wright rsquo s book Justification God 39 s Plan amp Paul 39 s Vision in which a teacher of mine is skewered Stephen Westerholm another one comes off in a fairly positive light E P Sanders and another is once cited kindly Ben F Meyer I mention th

Working with Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman once asked for additional insight into the character that she was to play nbsp What was her motivation nbsp Hitchcock answered her but the actress didn rsquo t see the question as settled nbsp ldquo I don rsquo t feel like that I don rsquo t thi

nbsp The New York Times Sunday Review published a short article by T M Luhrmann a professor of anthropology on speaking in tongues titled Why We Speak in Tongues nbsp August 17 2013 In the article Luhrmann who has published a book length study on glossolalia ldquo speaking in tongues

In the wee hours of a Sunday morning May of 1654 Jacob Rolandus climbed out a bedroom window of his family rsquo s home nbsp He was fleeing the rectory and the family of his father a Reformed Dutch Minister so that he could freely practice his new religion Catholicism nbsp In the 17th cen

Sometimes a mystery of faith is best approached through its opposite In pondering the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary consider what it means for us to die Of course for all of us on this side of the grave death is the unexplored country Near death experiences do not count Pondering dea