Poet Meena Alexander and the shifting terrain of the migrant experience.
Culture Watch
Kent Annan 3-01-2010
After Hurricane Jeanne struck Haiti in 2004, people gave abundantly from what little they had.
Tracey Bianchi 2-01-2010
God’s design for our lives includes stewardship of everything we have received. Most followers of Jesus give of their finances and volunteer their time, but stewardship also means responsible living with our cars, homes, energy consumption, water use, and so on. In these areas God provides an opportunity for wisdom and discernment on our part. At the very beginning of scripture, in Genesis 1, God outlines a partnership that is wider and greener than many of us realize. It is inconsistent if we slap our 10 percent into the collection plate and then head home in a gas-guzzling car and flip on all the lights
Danny Duncan Collum 2-01-2010
Was Jack Kerouac a keeper of visions or a self-destructive individualist?
Gareth Higgins 2-01-2010
Cormac McCarthy’s novels are the Ecclesiastes of postmodern American literature—finely wrought chunks of sparseness in which the protagonists struggle to survive a violent or deadening
César J. Baldelomar 1-01-2010
Solitude and Compassion: The Path to the Heart of the Gospel, by Gus Gordon. Orbis.
Christopher M. Zimmerman 12-01-2009
Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison, edited by Erna Putz. Orbis.
Jeannie Choi 12-01-2009
Joel Salatin finds himself in the middle of the food debate, fighting for a better way.