Culture Watch

Julie Polter 2-01-2012

Widow, Queen, Lover, Warrior; Faith in the Struggle; The Message; ‘Do Not Cast Me Away.’

Julie Polter 2-01-2012

Why sometimes life can seem like one big road trip.

Thirty-four years later, nearly two decades into the Internet age, the September 2011 break-up of the rock band R.E.M. reminded me just how right Bangs was. R.E.M. was one of the last traditional rock bands still doing relevant work.

Tim Kumfer 2-01-2012

Liberating Biblcal Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice, edited by Laura Dykstra and Ched Myers.

Alisa Harris 2-01-2012

In a country where parents lit their wounded daughters on fire, women lit themselves on fire to escape. I couldn’t shake the image of a young girl stepping into flames with a despair so profound that she would rather scorch her own flesh than face her own future.

Brittany Shoot 2-01-2012

No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, by David W. Stowe.

Gareth Higgins 2-01-2012

Hugo, Take Shelter, and The Mill and the Cross have little in common on the surface other than their quality; look deeper and you may find love-filled, theologically profound, hopeful invitations to live better.

Brittany Shoot 1-01-2012

Contrition seems more popular than ever.

Julie Polter 1-01-2012

Free South Africa, To Love More Deeply, When Disaster Strikes, Wrestling with Tradition.

Consensus decision-making can make an old-style Senate filibuster seem purposeful and engaging.

Gareth Higgins 1-01-2012

Roland Emmerich is known for making the kind of disaster movies that fans of quality filmmaking love to hate.

Christopher Smith 1-01-2012

War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity, by Stanley Hauerwas.

Robert Hirschfield 1-01-2012

Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art, and the Architecture of Silence. And, Fasting For Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice.

Jason Storbakken 1-01-2012

Activist pastor Gardener C. Taylor on lessons learned in a long life of faithfully taking the side of the oppressed.

Elizabeth Palmberg 1-01-2012

"I think it is a spiritual task to struggle with questions such as what and who we place at the center of our economy"

Julie Polter 12-01-2011

Joking for Jesus, The Courage to Love, Body Meets Soul, Rethinking War.

Robert Hirschfield 12-01-2011

Finding connections between the past, present, and future at Occupy Wall Street.

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2011

How blind commitment to 'free trade' throws working people under the bus.

Gareth Higgins 12-01-2011

Clooney's new movie, The Ides of March, serves as a thoughtful and entertaining mirror for next year's presidential election.

Larisa Friesen Hall 12-01-2011

'Does the bullet know Christian from Muslim? Does the bullet choose?'