Culture Watch

William O'Brien 6-03-2011

Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing. 

Sarah Browning 6-03-2011

Poets resist anti-immigration laws with defiance, beauty, and social media.

Latina/o Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking, by Miguel A. De La Torre.

THE EGYPTIAN revolution started on Facebook. True. The Iranians who took to the streets last year to try to overturn a fraudulent election used Twitter to coordinate their actions and to communicate with the outside world. Also true.

Lauren F. Winner 5-01-2011

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant, by Paul Clemens

Christine Foust 4-26-2011

Filmaker David Barnhart helps disaster survivors tell their ongoing stories of healing and recovery.

Gareth Higgins 3-01-2011

Reviews of 2010 films, and looking ahead to 2011.

American alienation is the real killer that stalks our past, and our present.

Julie Polter 3-01-2011

For nearly six decades, Mavis Staples has been bringing the gospel truth to song.

Rosalie G. Riegle 3-01-2011

All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg.

Julie Polter 3-01-2011

For nearly six decades, Mavis Staples has been bringing the gospel truth to song.

Brittany Shoot 3-01-2011

A review of Why Love Will Always Be A Poor Investment: Marriage and Consumer Culture, by Kurt Armsrong; foreward by Aiden Enns. Wipf & Stock.

Author Enuma Okoro talks about life and liturgy.

Julie Polter 3-01-2011

Reviews of The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman, Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made, Somebody's Daughter, and This Sacred Moment.

Betsy Shirley 2-01-2011
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro. Zondervan.
Julie Polter 2-01-2011

The Spirit Moves

Gareth Higgins 2-01-2011

Preachers in American fiction are usually not to be trusted -- Elmer Gantry might steal from you, the priest in Mystic River might kidnap you, Robert Duvall’s Sonny i

In the past two years, the culture wars have been complicated on the Right by the rise of the "tea party." In a time of grave economic crisis and massive government action, the traditional right-wi

On a September morning in 1963, terror came to the Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Jess O. Hale 2-01-2011
Split Ticket: Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics, edited by Amy Gopp, Christian Piatt, Brandon Gilvin. Chalice Press.