About the Author: Graham Kelder

  • By Published On: April 9, 2006

    The tobacco industry likes to portray itself as just another American business, but the facts point to precisely the opposite conclusion. Evidence uncovered in the recent tobacco litigation demonstrates that the tobacco companies deliberately deceived the public into believing that their products were safe and non-addictive while conspiring to keep the industry's knowledge to the contrary secret, manipulated the nicotine delivery of their products to better addict consumers, and targeted children in their advertising campaigns.

  • By Published On: April 9, 2006

    According to the Exodus story, the Egyptians had begun to fear that the Israelite people living in Egypt had grown more numerous and powerful than the Egyptians themselves. To prevent these Israelites from joining Egypt’s enemies, fighting against the Egyptians, and escaping from the land, the Egyptians

  • By Published On: April 9, 2006

    This year - which has been proclaimed a Jubilee Year by the Roman Catholic, Episcopal and other churches - affords Christians a special opportunity to make a focus on issues of economic justice a part of their spiritual lives and ministry.

  • By Published On: April 9, 2006

    How should science and theology be related to each other? How does our scientific knowledge fit or not fit with what we think we know about God and the sacred? Author Graham Kelder surveys recent publications dealng with science and spirituality.