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Muslim Soldiers Serve Our Country With Valor

Muslim Soldiers Serve Our Country With Valor

Posted on May 30, 2011May 30, 2011 by Joshua Stanton
Since September 11th, the United States Department of Defense has tried to inform those in uniform about Islam in what appears to be a significant effort to avoid outbursts of Islamophobia or the mist... Read More
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Posted on April 24, 2011April 25, 2011 by Ben Maton
Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake; I pray the Lord my soul to take. I sometimes pray that prayer before I go to sleep. My parents taught it to ... Read More
How I Learned to Pray with the help of Saint Ignatius and a Times Bestseller

How I Learned to Pray with the help of Saint Ignatius and a Times Bestseller

Posted on March 24, 2011March 24, 2011 by Jenn Lindsay
I always felt self-conscious and wishful when I prayed. I couldn’t stay focused. I hoped that a class on personal prayer would help me, so I took a course in the spring of my first year at Union, Th... Read More
What Are We Saying?

What Are We Saying?

Posted on March 7, 2011March 8, 2011 by Adina Allen
For me, this raises important questions about the power and significance of words. The words of prayer are so important that I don’t want to change them, yet they are often so problematic for me tha... Read More
Evangelicals and Muslims Loving God, Each Other, and the World Together?

Evangelicals and Muslims Loving God, Each Other, and the World Together?

Posted on February 24, 2011February 25, 2011 by Ben DeVan
Is conflict inevitable? Fighting and fighting words aside, relations between Evangelicals and Muslims are far from uniform.... Read More
Discipline in Formation

Discipline in Formation

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Hannah Kardon
My Introduction to Ministry Studies professor told us a few weeks ago that if we plan on practicing any spiritual discipline in our later life, we had better get going. “If you don’t find time for... Read More
Who ‘owns’ religious practice?

Who ‘owns’ religious practice?

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Brad Bannon
Is it appropriate to "borrow" religious practices from religious traditions other than our own? If so, what are the limits to such practices and how should this be done? If not, then why not?... Read More
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