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An exploration of Genesis.
 
Torah commentary from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
 
A fascinating look into the linguistic world of Chinese signs and the echoes of Genesis found therein. 
 
The website of an intentional community in Philadelphia, PA. 
Their motto: "To love God. To love people.  To follow Jesus.  We're giving it our best shot."
 
An organization dedicated toward reconciliation efforts. This site includes an anthology of stories that demonstrate the power of forgiveness in personal ways.
 
A revolutionary concept where individuals contribute to meet the financial needs of other individuals. 
 
A place for people of all backgrounds to learn about Jesus.
 
Articles 
 
Rick Reilly's column about Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy lending a hand to the hurting.
 
Lisa Anderson's tale of her personal pursuit for the authentic person of Jesus. Told with honesty, this piece speaks to our attempts to fashion a God in our own image. 
 
Father Joe has followed Jesus for a long time, and it has taken him to the slums of Bangkok. John M. Glionna tells
some of Father Joe's story here. 
Like a proud parent, Father Joe Maier dotes on his children — such as the young beggar boy whose dad got him high on paint thinner and gave him broken bottles to cut his arms so he'd look more pathetic to passing motorists.
And the sexually abused triplets — the girls' mother was dying of AIDS, their father in jail, their grandfather a drunk. Maier paid the old man two cases of whiskey to rescue the trio.
 
 Gary Smith's article on one woman's love for children through polo in Philadelphia.   
The umpire rolled a wooden ball among them, and suddenly a posse of black kids from Philadelphia's worst streets, wielding mallets and riding 1,000-pound beasts, were going hell- bent-for-leather against a team of white millionaires.
 
Jeff MacGregor's article on Brett Favre, and the human struggle with time's passing, for Sports Illustrated. 
The story of Favre’s incomplete pass at retirement this off-season, and the upset, confusion and outrage it caused among so many strangers has, for the most part, come and gone, overtaken by other, more urgent quarterback controversies.  But that story will return, told in the same unforgiving way, in the next season or the next or the next.  Because the story of Brett Favre’s end was never just about him.  It is about us.