August / September 2019 Issue

A Vision of Life by Ed Burns

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The way in which we envision our lives provides us with, if not clear answers, at least some convictions about those basic questions we all ask ourselves from time to time.

From Pyramid to Circle: A Review by J. Milburn Thompson

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The transcendent God is present to the cruciform finitude of all creatures offering the hope of new life.

Unresolved Issues Rear Ugly Heads by Fran Salone-Pelletier

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The danger of our media-saturated society lies in its bearing and baring a view where all is crisis for a short time until something else takes our attention. When all is crisis, nothing is important. When nothing is important, everything washes over us.

Editorial: A Late, Desperate Stage: On the Syrian Civil War

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Everywhere violence continues, and the ever-shifting battle lines obscure the most obvious fact: that defenseless civilians, many of them children, are the ones suffering the most.