Recently added articles from CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health:
Editorial.(religious, cultural and political relationships in the United States)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; Henderson, Charles P. ... As I write, commentators continue to react to a very few, highly selected quotations, or rather, video clips, edited out of a few sermons delivered in some cases several years ago by the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Some have suggested that the relationship between Senator Obama and ...
Responding to the new religious pluralism.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Wuthnow, Robert ... It is no longer news to say that Americans are having to confront the realities of a new religious pluralism. Despite much talk about interfaith relationships, the majority Christian population faces countless unanswered questions. Do these religions convey divine truth? Is their message ...
Embodiment, elimination, and the role of toilets in struggles for social justice.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Plaskow, Judith ... <Pre> ... at the end of the row one free toilet oozes from under its crooked door, while a row of weary women carrying packages and babies wait and wait and wait to do what only the dead find unnecessary. Marge Piercy, "To the Pay Toilet" </Pre> Revaluing the body, and ...
The unbearable lightness of being: re-sourcing catholic intellectual traditions.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Schloesser, Stephen ... A human condition both catholic and Catholic The Unbearable Lightness of Being: even for those who have not read Milan Kundera's dense metaphysical novel (or seen the movie based on it) the title is probably familiar. Familiar but also perhaps enigmatic--intentionally so, ...
In pain and sorrow: childbirth, incarnation, and the suffering of women.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Cullinan, Colleen Carpenter ... About ten years ago, I gave birth to a ten-pound, two-ounce baby boy after a long day and an even longer night of labor. The labor was obstructed: not only was he huge, he was turned sideways, and had absolutely no intention of entering the world in the way of most babies. The midwife ...
What Buddhists and Christians are teaching each other about God.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Betty, Stafford ... At a time when the Judaeo-Christian conception of a personal God is coming under attack by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins--the present-day Big Dogs of Atheism--theists would do well to pay attention to their Buddhist Brothers and sisters to see if there is any help ...
"The destiny of this people is my own ...": Edith Stein's paradoxical sainthood (1).(Biography)
Mar 22, 2008; Espin, Oliva M. ... Edith Stein, perhaps one of the most controversial women to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, was born on Yom Kippur, October 12, 1891 in Breslau (then Germany, now Poland). She was put to death in Auschwitz, August 9, 1942. (2) On May 1, 1987, forty-five ...