“No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater than central air.” — The demon Azrael in Kevin Smith’s film Dogma
Columns
Joel C. Hunter 9-01-2009
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. —Barbara Johnson
Bill McKibben 9-01-2009
I am writing these words on the train from Zurich to Geneva, looking up from my keyboard to see snowcapped mountains hanging over the lake.
Jim Wallis 9-01-2009
On a personal, national, and global level, the physical well-being of all God’s children is close to God’s heart and should be close to ours as well.
Rose Marie Berger 9-01-2009
In July, Pope Benedict wrote you a love letter. Like all love letters, it’s worth savoring.
Rose Marie Berger 8-01-2009
It’s summer here in the northern climes—and summer means the swimming pool.
Ed Spivey Jr. 8-01-2009
With all the mixed signals we’ve been getting these days about the use of torture, it’s hard to know what to believe.
Adam Hamilton 8-01-2009
’Tis the gift to be simple,
’tis the gift to be free,
’Tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves
Eboo Patel 8-01-2009
In the Quran, it is written, “And anyone who saves a life, it shall be as if he saved the lives of all the people.”
Majora Carter 8-01-2009
My life has taken me from a childhood in the burning Bronx to the Arctic Circle, through ghettos large and small, and to places I didn’t even know existed until I was well into my adulthood.<
Jim Wallis 7-01-2009
Our Mobilization to End Poverty this spring brought together nearly 1,200 Christian leaders and grassroots activists from around the country committed to overcoming poverty.
Joel C. Hunter 7-01-2009
I loved that movie with Mandy Moore about a terminally ill preacher’s daughter who tutored a rebellious peer.
Bill McKibben 7-01-2009
Winning can be nearly as hard as losing. Everything changed for the American environmental movement with Barack Obama’s victory.
Cathleen Falsani 7-01-2009
Patience may be a virtue, but it’s definitely not my strong suit. I hate to wait. H-A-T-E it.
Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-2009
This is my first column in our bold new magazine design, which was created to bring state-of-the-art publishing innovations to our readers. Also, we were bored with the old design.
Jim Wallis 6-01-2009
On ominous red-on-black lettering, a recent Newsweek cover carried the headline, “The Decline and Fall of Christian America.” The magazine’s cover story by editor Jon Mea
Ed Spivey Jr. 6-01-2009
As I sit at my desk thinking up innovative ideas for the coming decade—MacArthur Mediocrity Grants, AIG offices relocating to Guantanamo, AIDS awareness seminars for the pope (“I d