Culture Watch

Julie Polter 8-01-2010

Seeking the Beloved

Christopher Smith 8-01-2010
On being the people of God in a particular place.
Let's just call the Music City deluge a naturally occurring metaphor.
Gareth Higgins 8-01-2010
It’s ironic that the explosive, high-budget thrill rides understand so little about their own themes.
Jeannie Choi 8-01-2010
Bettie Mae Fikes talks about the music of the civil rights movement.
Lit: A Memoir, by Mary Karr. HarperCollins.
Tattoos on the Heart, by Gregory Boyle. Free Press.
Margaret Regan 7-01-2010
In March 2008, several fast-food employees found themselves on the wrong side of U.S. immigration policies.
Becky Garrison 7-01-2010
Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes all the Difference, by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. Harper One.
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2010
The Complete Psalms, by Pamela Greenberg. Bloomsbury USA. Joyful Noise, edited by Robert Strong. Autumn House Press.
Gareth Higgins 7-01-2010
Documentary films have the potential to both show us the world and change it.
Julie Polter 7-01-2010

Be Not Consumed

Elizabeth Palmberg 7-01-2010
  1. How did you begin your work as a lawyer and activist? I think it was my vocation. In my own life, my parents said sometimes, “Women can’t do that, and men can.” I answered all the time, “Why do you think that women can’t do that?” When I got the opportunity to begin work as a lawyer, I was focusing on women’s law. In Congo, the culture said women couldn’t inherit land. We have a great law—but the implementation, that is the problem. I began assisting women pro bono in the east, in Goma.
A titanic struggle is being waged over the future of the internet.
Gareth Higgins 6-01-2010
The multiplex stabbing is the consequence of a dehumanized culture that defaults to sarcasm and nurtures angry condemnation.
Julie Polter 6-01-2010

The Virtual and the Divine

Cross-generational blogging about faith and feminism.
Liane Rozzell 6-01-2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. The New Press.
The Future of Faith, by Harvey Cox. HarperOne.