March, 1996
Family Issues as Seen by Different Religions
Above all else, the holy Hindu Vedasexalt the performance of sacrifice, and this month, in the spirit of sacrifice, Hind…
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March, 1996
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March, 1996
Assessing the Challenges of the 21st Century
By Father Luis M. Dolan, C.P. When I was asked to write a paper on the Family from a multi-religious […]
March, 1996
The Future of Hindu Children Enrolled In Christian Schools
Of all the many choices to be made in the raising of children, none may have more influence than the […]
March, 1996
The Hindu Family
Here are the "voices" of Hindus sharing their vision of family, not as family was lived by their grandparents …
March, 1996
Karma, Free Will And Jyotisha, Part 1
The questions of karma, destiny and free will have baffled scholars and philosophers from time immemorial. These are amo…
March, 1996
Global Family Education
We have been speaking with many parents lately, in India, Singapore, Malaysia and the US, about the challenges that are …
March, 1996
Editorial: The West’s Love for India
India mistakenly, I would say, often looks to the West as a model of accomplishment, a measure of what is […]
March, 1996
An Akan Queen Speaks
Family in the Ghanaian context is not what today is called "nuclear," consisting of husband, wife and children…
March, 1996
Rome’s Catholic Family
By Father Pedro Richards, C.P. There is a Spanish saying that runs like this: "All depends on the lens through [&he…
March, 1996
Bahá’í’s Family of Unity
"And when He desired to manifest grace and beneficence to men, and to set the world in order, He revealed [……
March, 1996
The Family in Islam
The "Family" is a network of relationships: relationships between husband and wife, brothers and sisters, pare…
March, 1996
The Family in Buddhism
A family consists of a married couple and their children. It is a group of people tied by the same […]
March, 1996
Israel’s Family of Moses
Recently I asked parents of 12-year-old students, "What Jewish values were passed on to you from your family which …
March, 1996
Scriptural Quotes
He alone is learned, he alone is fortunate and successful, whose mind is no longer unstable as air, but is […]
March, 1996
Gandhi & Shankar Feted
It was not a normal birthday party. This party, held last October at the Mahatma Gandhi Center in St. Louis, […]
March, 1996
Tobaccoless Village
The smoking image has had healthier days. Hollywood movies once flaunted heroines puffing the parched cocoa leaf as thou…
March, 1996
Ganesha Factory
When I was a little girl, Ganesha Chaturthi was very important. We would scurry from house to house to see […]