The Preacher's Wife

Preachers who are not believers.

There are systemic features of contemporary Christianity that create an almost invisible class of non-believing clergy, ensnared in their ministries by a web of obligations, constraints, comforts, and community. Exemplars from five Protestant denominations, Southern Baptist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Methodist and Church of Christ, were found and confidentially interviewed at lengt...

The cancer patient’s wife

Mrs. Lee, it's your husband's nurse calling from the hospital. We need to know now whether you'll want us to resuscitate Mr. Lee, just in case. A friend of mine, Mary, received this call yesterday. Her husband Tom had been hospitalized a week earlier , after his platelet count dropped so low that daily outpatient blood transfusions became inadequate and other symptoms of his terminal cancer mad...

Wife beating: the silent crime.

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As more and more data is created each day, researchers from different science domains are trying to make sense of it. A lot of this data, for example our connections to friends on different social networking websites, can be modeled as graphs, where the nodes are actors and the edges are relationships between them. Researchers analyze this data to find new forms of communication, to explore dif...