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Motorcycle dealership opens in Morrow If you think you're seeing more motorcycles in Morrow than usual, don't be alarmed. You are. Harley-Davidson of Clayton County recently moved its store to [...]

Brian McAdams is as sure that it's wrong for the state to carry out executions as he is sure that it's wrong for people to commit murder. 'I guess all [...]

In 1977, Sallie Ann Glassman, an artist who calls herself a 'nice middle-aged Jewish lady,' was living in her cousin's unheated barn in Kennebunkport, Maine. She had always been interested [...]

Writer and Savannah native Bruce Feiler has been blessed with a life of adventure. He has taught in a small Japanese town, spent a year as a circus clown, and [...]

From the vantage point of a lifetime spent studying the faiths of humanity, theologian and octogenarian Huston Smith trains a worried eye on the state of religious belief in his [...]

On a recent Tuesday night, in an aging office park on Briarcliff Road, about 30 people sit on cushions, drinking in the words of a smiling Tibetan monk in orange [...]

'Virtual Tibet' (Metropolitan Books, 340 pages) is the history of an obsession. Author Orville Schell examines the Western adventurers, explorers and spiritualists who for centuries were bent on reaching forbidden [...]

Religion scholars and writers Carol and Philip Zaleski have edited a collection of humanity's musings about heaven. 'The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings From Ancient to Modern Times' [...]

Jonathan Kozol has been writing about children for more than 30 years. 'Death at an Early Age,' his expose of inequalities in the education of African-American students in Boston public [...]

Sumptuous guide to prayer of Sufis 'The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis' (Ballantine Wellspring, 144 pages) is a sumptuously illustrated presentation of the Salat --- the traditional [...]

Laurie Scott Prolific author and New Age icon Deepak Chopra explores the direct experience of the divine in 'How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries' [...]

Laurie Scott Janet Gabler-Hover's students might say she's white but not narrow. Gabler-Hover, who teaches American Literature at Georgia State University, acknowledges the erasure from American history of African-American achievements [...]

Laurie Scott The latest volume in Thomas Cahill's 'Hinges of History' series is 'Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus' (Doubleday, 353 pages). Like the first [...]

Laurie Scott When journalist John Cornwell began his examination of certain secret Vatican records, he believed he would find evidence to vindicate the controversial papacy of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius [...]

Laurie Scott Look inside Mormon Church 'Mormon America: The Power and the Promise' (HarperSanFrancisco, 480 pages) by journalists Richard and Joan Ostling is a look inside the Mormon Church unprecedented [...]

Laurie Scott In 'The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns' (Crown, 255 pages), writer Catherine Whitney goes inside the order that ran her childhood school. [...]

Laurie Scott Rabbi Shoni Labowitz turned to the Old Testament in search of women's voices. What she found led to 'God, Sex and Women of the Bible' (Simon & Schuster, [...]

Laurie Scott ESSAYS Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. By Stephen Jay Gould. Ballantine. $18.95. 240 pages. The verdict: Daring and thought-provoking. Stephen Jay Gould, [...]

Laurie Scott BOOK REVIEW Three on the Edge: The Stories of Ordinary American Families in Search of a Medical Miracle. By John Kelly. Bantam. $24.95. 312 pages. The verdict: A [...]

Laurie Scott Neil Clark Warren is a clinical psychologist, popular talk show guest and the author of 'Make Anger Your Ally' and 'Finding the Love of Your Life.' In 'God [...]

Laurie Scott Writer Daniel Bergner spent 13 weeks on the inside of Louisiana's legendary Angola Prison getting to know the inmates and trying to understand why they agree to compete [...]

Laurie Scott REVIEW The Love of a Good Woman: Stories. By Alice Munro. Knopf. $24. 340 pages. The verdict: The characters in these stories have more dimension and complexity than [...]

Laurie Scott Hospice worker and developmental psychologist Kathleen Dowling Singh draws on psychology and Eastern wisdom traditions to offer comfort to the terminally ill in 'The Grace in Dying: How [...]

Laurie Scott REVIEW Something to Declare: Essays. By Julia Alvarez. Algonquin. $20.95. 300 pages. The verdict: Alvarez proves to be as fluent in the essay as in fiction. As a [...]

Laurie Scott Johann Christoph Arnold, pastor and leader in the Bruderhof religious movement, turns his attention to the concept of peace in 'Seeking Peace: Notes and Conversations Along the Way' [...]

Laurie Scott In time for Rosh Hashana, Hyperion Press has published 'Traditions: The Complete Book of Prayers, Rituals, and Blessings for Every Jewish Home' (Hyperion, 256 pages). This beautifully illustrated [...]

Laurie Scott Someone who travels around America asking people if they've seen God lately could very well attract the attention of local law enforcement. But when writer/photographer Steve Wall took [...]

Laurie Scott Two recent books from the State University of New York Press examine religious fundamentalism in different contexts. In 'Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka' (SUNY Press, [...]

Laurie Scott 'The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love.' By Thomas Moore. HarperCollins. $25. 308 pages. Thomas Moore doesn't run from a challenge. This scholar, theologian, [...]

Laurie Scott 'Meditations From a Movable Chair' Andre Dubus (Knopf, 210 pages) $23.00 Andre Dubus is a man with an unshakable belief in a living, vibrant God. He also happens [...]

Laurie Scott For Janet Afrah, owner of Judaica Corner on Briarcliff Road, running a Jewish bookstore and gift shop is the perfect expression of her faith. Since 1987, Afrah, an [...]

Laurie Scott Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, historian and religious thinker, expects his book 'Jews: The Essence and Character of a People' (Harper Collins, $25) to continue to cause sparks to fly. [...]

Laurie Scott 'Enormous Prayers: A Journey into the Priesthood' by Thomas Kunkel (Westview Press, $25) Thomas Kunkel's fascinating portraits of 28 American Catholic priests reveal a breadth of personalities, styles [...]

Laurie Scott Family therapist Judith Davis offers guidance to parents planning and/or trying to get through their child's bar or bat mitzvah in 'Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah Is This Anyway?' (St. [...]

Laurie Scott Penelope J. Ryan is a religion professor at Fordham University and the religious curriculum director at the School of the Holy Child in New York. In 'Practicing Catholic' [...]

Laurie Scott 'God is My Broker / A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth'. In their outrageous send-up of the self-help industry, Christopher Buckley and [...]

Laurie Scott In the spring of 1940, 11-year-old Julia Scully arrived in the alien landscape of Nome, Alaska. Harsh and forbidding, Alaska nevertheless became a place of intoxicating life for [...]

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