IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON LIFE

And More Than Enough......................Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..4
Human life is a glorious gift of love

Sabor Hispano: Taste Life and Celebrate...Ana Maria Pineda, R.S.M...6
All of life is imbued with God

Choose Life...............................Israel Miller.............7
The fate of life rests upon us and we must choose life

Born Again and Again......................Eric W. Gritsch...........8
We are called to be born of the Spirit again and again

What is the Purpose of Life?..............John Macquarrie...........9
God created us to respond to love with love

New Life in Christ........................Keith A. Russell.........10
The New Testament focuses on the life of communities here and now

The Value of Life in Our Cities...........Bernice Powell Jackson...12
The Church must address the hopelessness and despair that is the cause
of violence

Life Begins in Baptism....................L. Gregory Jones.........14
Baptism brings our life in communion with God and one another

Preaching Life in a Culture of Death......David H.C. Read..........15
Preaching Life is a joy if we ourselves are on the expanding path

Claiming the Salvation of the God.........Millicent C. Feske........16
of Life
Our tradition has the real vitality when we speak of the God of Life

Pastoral Counseling and the Brain.........Eric R. Kandel and.......18
The brain of an infant develops fully.....Robert B. Birge............
only with environmental stimulation

New Genetic Choices.......................Sidney Callahan..........20
Scientific knowledge is a gift of God requiring moral discernment

Ostrich or Pandora?.......................June Bingham.............22
New genetic research raises difficult questions for pastors and parents

Life After Birth..........................Tom F. Driver............24
Human life is moral life

Karl Rahner's Theology of Life's..........Geffrey B. Kelly.........26
Giftedness
God has created creatures God can love

Living, Really............................Minka Shura Sprague......28
In the process of dying we experience new life

QUOTATIONS ON LIFE

In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures [31]
Theologians, Scholars, Philosophers [32]
Poets and Writers [33]
Leaders, Scientists and Doctors [34]  

BOOKS ON SUFFERING

Death by Bread Alone by Dorothee Soelle [35]
The Spirit of Life by Jurgen Moltmann [36]
On Judaism by Martin Buber [37]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON LIFE

Life in the Gospel of John................Craig R. Koester.........38
Preaching Life in the Face of Death.......Judith Hoch Wray.........40
Illness: A Life Event.....................Michael Felder...........41
Some Lessons for the End of Life..........M. Shawn Copeland........42
Does the Snow Dance for You?..............Katherine Ann Birge......44
New Life for Lectionary Preachers.........Judith Hoch Wray.........46
  

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