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Two Words. Eight letters.
Think for a minute about all the names God has. Among those that appear in the Bible are Almighty, Father, Alpha and Omega, helper, governor, Marker, and husband, to name only a few.
Our youngest daughter started riding horses when she was ten years old. I enjoyed watching her and certainly appreciated the beauty of the horses in motion, but I didn't want to get close to them because, deep down, I was terrified of them.
September is back-to-school month in many places, as echoed in our cover—a classic Chinese print of children seated at the feet of their teacher. But this issue of the Journal offers articles that look at lifelong learning—the kinds of deep lessons learned throughout the school of life.
We felt contributor Connie Pierce's experience with her mother was an appropriate way to begin this month's Journal, which explores some of the most poignant questions of the human heart. Her article originally appeared on www.
The Heart Gets Credited for the highest acts of kindness and blamed for the worst acts of passion. It's anything but lukewarm, lackluster territory.
Until Recently, I'd have said that religious freedom was about tolerance. About tolerating others' right to practice their faith.
Defending The Right to religious freedom has inspired countless acts of courage. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of Stalinist-era oppression, The Gulag Archipelago, gives a brief account of a Russian Orthodox woman who is repeatedly interrogated and threatened by the police.
Throughout my own spiritual journey , I've been moved by stories of people who have hit bottom in their lives. It may be illness, addiction, or sin that has them down when they finally consider—or even just hope for—a more spiritual sense of life.
" Why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this?" Such poignant questions asked at some of the most wrenching moments in human history, have confounded wise people for centuries. If God is good, how can evil happen? We wouldn't attempt to answer a question of the ages in a single magazine.