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Alzheimer’s & Grace
The author of Psalm 71 begs the Lord, “Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails me.” And in the...
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
In the current literature on the connections between science and religion, it is rare to find a discussion of pain. Cosmology, mathematical chaos theory, the anthropic principle, neurotheology, and...