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The Getting to Maybe website has been in existence for more than a decade. During that time many essays have appeared here, some with content specific to the year in which they were written but many others that are timeless.

The very best of the timeless essays will be reprinted here as they continue to speak to us today.

--R. Z. Halleson

 

Best of the Archives

Playing in God's Backyard
by Manuel de Joya
We humans have always used science to explain our "observable world, and relied on religion and superstition to explain what lay beyond.
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Book Review
World on Fire
by Amy Chua
 How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.
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Marriage and Divorce in Islam
by Mehdi ben Aribi
 Marriage in Islam is held in the highest esteem and is viewed as essential in God's plan for his people.
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Who are these Guys?
by Yvette Marie Eber, Mdiv, MCE
The Gospel of Judas seems to have turned New Testament history upside down. This sermon challenges our traditional views of who the disciples really were.
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Protecting Biodiversity
by Rabbi David Rosenn
We are witnessing and helping produce the most rapid decline of species diversity in the history of the earth. . . .
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Ways to Love, Not Fight Cancer
by Elizabeth Holding
How can a person cope when one family member after another is diagnosed with cancer.
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