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...this sense, our religion, our moral life, is simply what we do. A Christian is not a Christian simply because she agrees to conform her life to some set of external principles or dogmas, or because at a particular moment in her life, she experienced a rupture and changed herself entirely. She is a Christian primarily because she acts like one. She loves and forgives; she listens and prays; she contemplates and befriends; her faith and her life fuse into an unself-conscious unity that affirms a tradition of moral life and yet also makes it her own. In that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Not Seeing Is Believing | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...youngsters. That is the only way we will eventually create a better world. Michel Mortier Zug, Switzerland U.S. foreign policy needs a greater dose of realism. It should be more in tune with the world community rather than taking an armchair view and telling other nations to conform to the U.S. perspective. Nirmal Kuamar Mishra Patna, India Words Unspoken In "What Bush should have said" [Sept. 11], columnist Joe Klein suggested that the U.S. order the Iraqi Prime Minister to disband his coalition because of the influence of Muqtada al-Sadr. But if we are sacrificing American lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9/11: Looking Forward and Back | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...soft-drink giants are less delighted. Coca-Cola says its drinks have been rigorously tested by independent laboratories and conform to strict quality standards, and both companies have taken out newspaper ads challenging the CSE's research methods and findings. Unconcerned, Narain counters: "We are not in this to prove Pepsi and Coke wrong-and as long as we get those standards, I don't give a damn if they prove me wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Storm in a Cola Cup | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...Deciding what to cook isn't just a matter of walking through the markets and seeing what inspires. Food must be ordered a week in advance through the Army supply system, and menus must conform to the Basis of Issue, the per-meal allowance for each soldier of meat, eggs, cheese, fish, sugar-all calculated to the gram, with nutrition as well as economy in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Feed An Army | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...America's ongoing and sometimes rancorous discussion about science and God, some stock characters have evolved. There are the vocal proponents of creationism and intelligent design who storm school boards in hopes that either science or local government will conform to their beliefs. Then there are academic atheists who claim increasingly aggressively that science is in the process of proving religion a delusion. But few of the polemicists have the authority to preach beyond their own choirs. Most believers don't care to listen to an atheistic scientist calling the idea of God a mythology created to explain what humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconciling God and Science | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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