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By Ed Gallagher When you listen to public prayers, what do you hear? A speech? A manufactured succession of words? A predictable sequence of clichés? Or do …

By Clifford Goldstein When my children were young, I told them that in America some hotels once had posted signs outside saying, “No Jews or dogs allowed.” My …

By Ed Gallagher Prayer is completely nondiscriminatory. Skin color, gender, nationality, age, financial status, education, social standing, church relationship—none of these matters. “This poor man called, and the …

The Hebrew word for Sabbath (Shabbat) literally means “to rest.” This isn’t a mandate to take a nap (although you certainly could do that). It’s …

With Christian broadcaster Harold Camping’s declaration that business as usual will end on this earth May 21, after the rapture of the church, once again …