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...Mary" was a splendid analysis of a development in spirituality that goes profoundly beyond the goddess fad that has captured our imaginations for years [March 21]. The piety and deepest consciousness of a human being seek a feminine face, especially in a world whose cultures are saturated with patriarchy. Thank you for helping to rescue Mary from passive neglect. (The Rev.) Marvin E. Repinski Austin, Minnesota...
...Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain Thank you for your moving and insightful cover story on ways to manage chronic pain [March 28]. As a person who has battled debilitating pain for more than five years, I read it with tears in my eyes. But I was encouraged that your magazine took the crucial step of shifting the focus away from pills and to other ways of treating the sources of pain. And I can't thank you enough for including fibromyalgia in your article. Many of us who suffer from it still face doctors who fail to recognize...
...Mary" was a splendid analysis of a development in spirituality that goes profoundly beyond the goddess fad that has captured our imaginations for years [March 21]. The piety and deepest consciousness of a human being seek a feminine face, especially in a world whose cultures are saturated with patriarchy. Thank you for helping rescue Mary, a kind of biblical goddess, from passive neglect. Many of us appreciate your generous examples of Protestants, including Methodists like me, who keep opening doors of faiths that are traditional but are willing to take risks. (The Rev.) Marvin E. Repinski Austin, Minnesota...
...encouraged that enlightened and progressive leaders in the developed world agree that the main obstacles to Africa's development are not solely or even fundamentally corruption and misrule. With a lot of commitment and doggedness, Africa will stand on its own feet, and posterity will have this generation to thank for it. Olumuyiwa E. Adepitan Gusau, Nigeria Can poverty in Africa be ended? Of course it can. But first Africa has to be freed from the heavy burden of the past and allowed the liberty and unconditional means to set its own course for the future. Then it can preserve...
...them. He received the sacrament reserved for the dying, heard the Stations of the Cross. Hours later he was slipping in and out of consciousness, his breathing shallow, his organs failing. News came Saturday of his final, halting words. "You have come to me," he said, "and I thank you," though whether he was talking to his brothers around him, the pilgrims outside or the waiting Lord above, there was no way to know...