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Passing Judgment

vol. 4, num. 14 :: 2005.07.15 — 2005.07.28

We authorize our legal systems to render official judgments of guilt and innocence, but the nature of judgment is much different in our everyday relationships. What is the relationship between love and judgment?

 

Feature

The end of the tunnel

A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

Editorial

Grace in naming

The story of the infertile wife, the virile husband and the lovely immigrant cleaning woman.

Articles

Regarding judgment

Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

How to create a just society

Ruminations on the relationship between God?s justice and God?s mercy.

Beyond a reasonable doubt

A Canadian court case provides a study in justice.

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Judge your neighbor as yourself?

On the difference between a mallet and a meow as instruments of judgment.

The fellowship of the guilty

?By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men.?

Reviews

Harry Potter is good for my soul

A look at the provocative book series, just in time for the newest release.

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Some friends and a house

A review of Mirah TomYov Zeitlyn & Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project

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Gallery

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In case you missed it the first time

Claiming our history in Lent

Is fear of militant Islam related to a fear of our own collective Christian past?

Helping students develop their culture vision

*cino proposes to expand and market a media discernment curriculum developed by the author that is already being used successfully at Illiana Christian High School.

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Act justly?

An exploration of the term justice.

Weaving the web

The Way of Judgment

An author recommended by Stephen Lazarus of the Center for Public Justice, Oliver O?Donovan examines the nature of judgment in a political context.

 

What fundamentalists need for their salvation

David James Duncan explores his own judgments about Christian fundamentalism and calls down judgment on the religious right. Judge for yourself?

 
 

Columns

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Lessons from the garbage bin

On cultivating an appropriate attitude toward cleaning up life?s messes.

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