Taxi Driver shows that the distinction between heroic and criminal killing is often tenuous and raises the question of what happens when America’s trained killers return home to find situations and people they like no better than those in Southeast Asia.
Commentary
Donald W. Dayton 4-01-1976
The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They are Changing. Edited by David F. Wells and John D. Woodbridge. Abingdon Press, 1975. $8.95.
William Stringfellow 3-01-1976
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The notion of a gentle, innocuous Jesus contradicts the notorious and turbulent events of Holy Week.
Sharon Gallagher 3-01-1976
Evangelical songwriters John Peterson and Don Wyrtzen have come up with a musical for the bicentennial.
Graham Pulkingham 3-01-1976
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
Bob Sabath 2-01-1976
“We believe that disarmament is the greatest and most urgent challenge facing humanity.”
Jim Wallis 2-01-1976
Yet another theological declaration has been added to the growing number of such statements in the past few years which attempt to deal with the difficult questions involved in the church’s relationship to the world.
Mark O. Hatfield 2-01-1976
Three thousand people gathered on Jan. 29, 1976, in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel for the National Prayer Breakfast.
William Stringfellow 2-01-1976
As I comprehend the gospel, when it is said of Wendt that he is a scapegoat, his faithfulness is being affirmed.
Graham Pulkingham 2-01-1976
After a careful reading of early chapters in the Acts of the Apostles it seems unavoidably evident that the first Christian community, the Jerusalem church, was qualitatively the church in all its fullness.
Graham Pulkingham 1-01-1976
In recent years a great many Christians, disturbed by the absence of a vital witness to Christ in his churches, have prayed something to the effect, “Lord, revive thy church beginning with me."
Jim Wallis 8-01-1975
As some of you have no doubt already heard, the Post American and our entire community will be moving, in early September, from Chicago to Washington, D.C.
Jim Wallis 4-01-1975
“Kids are dying who shouldn’t die,” said Robert Beck, a World Vision doctor. “They die in our arms. It’s hard to believe.
Jim Wallis 3-01-1975
Last month, the government again sought to use its food aid programs more for the political requirements of American foreign policy and the interests of agribusiness rather than to meet the needs of starving people.
Lewis B. Smedes 3-01-1975
By this time, the Hartford Affirmations -- or Heresies, depending on how you read them -- will have been viewed with alarm or thanksgiving by most theologians in the country.
Joe Roos 2-01-1975
As American power has grown, so, too, has the arrogance of power. Contained within this attitude of arrogance are irrationality, insecurity, and abusiveness of power.
Joe Roos 1-01-1975
The threat of global hunger looms more ominously than at any time in human history.