The Common Good

Culture Watch

The Other Meltdown

by Kaitlin Barker 10-20-2008
The financial crisis is nothing to bat an eyelash at, of course, but as the U.S.
+Continue Reading

Party for Your Right to Fight Poverty

by Monte Peterson 10-17-2008
This week, a number of "awareness days" fall on the calendar-October 16 was World Food Day, today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17-19 are the Millenium Development Gr
+Continue Reading

Spiritually-Inflected Science Fiction

by Elizabeth Palmberg 10-17-2008
Some -- okay, a lot -- of science fiction treats religion, and even spirituality, as pre-rational claptrap or dangerous authoritarianism.
+Continue Reading

Changeling and the Spirituality of Activism

by Becky Garrison 10-15-2008
Clint Eastwood's latest feature Changeling (opens October 24) depicts the real life story of Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a working class single mom living in Los Angeles circa 1928.
+Continue Reading

No Conviction

by Peter Rollins 10-14-2008
In a world where following Christ is decreed to be a subversive and illegal activity, you have been accused of being a believer, arrested, and dragged before a court.
+Continue Reading

Make Culture, Not War

by Cathleen Falsani 10-14-2008
Not quite 200 years ago, the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley said something that is perhaps more true today than when he first put it down on paper: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
+Continue Reading

Bill Maher's Religulous: Polemic Based on Cynical Preconceptions

by Gareth Higgins 10-13-2008
Bill Maher is that rare thing: a media figure unafraid to say what he really thinks.
+Continue Reading

Ten Commandments for Bloggers

by Duane Shank 10-07-2008
The Evangelical Alliance in the UK recently held a "Godblogs" conference, bringing Christian bloggers together to discuss a Christian approach to blogging.
+Continue Reading

Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television (Part 2)

by Nadia Bolz-Weber 10-03-2008
[Continued from part 1] I began to wonder what the TBN folks would think of me, a heavily tattooed Christian progressive from a liturgical denomination. How would people in their theological camp respond to my preaching? Would they think, as I do of them, that I misuse scripture?
+Continue Reading