Culture Watch

Katie Balestra 7-01-2009
Christian radio finds a new audience -- outside the church.
A journalist explores the science of spirituality.

When I began writing this column back in 1985, my page could hold up to 1,000 words. Over the years that number has shrunk, first to 800, then 700.

Gareth Higgins 7-01-2009

Now that most filmed records of human life are made by amateurs—the growth of YouTube and other forms of uploading moving images is the most influential recent development in cinema—we

Molly Marsh 7-01-2009
Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings, by Francis McDonagh; Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive, by Chris Herlinger; The Economics of Honor, by Roelf Hann; and Albert Schweitzer: Call to Africa, by Martin Doblmeier.
Anne Colamosca 6-01-2009
Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, by William Greider. Rodale Books.
Glen Peterson 6-01-2009
Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and the Truth in the Immigration Debate, by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang. InterVarsity Press.
Molly Marsh 6-01-2009
The blues live in this world -- yet long for the next. An interview with Steve Nichols.
Molly Marsh 6-01-2009
Money & Faith: The Search for Enough, by Michael Schut; After Gandhi: 100 Years of Nonviolent Resistance, by Anne and Perry O'Brien; Beyond Our Differences, by Peter Bisanz; and Kids + Money, by Lauren Greenfield.
Can a government-subsidized press save democracy?
Laurel Frodge 6-01-2009

Sin Nombre, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Focus Films.

Molly Marsh 5-01-2009
A rough economy, changing reading habits, and a planet in peril are forcing book publishers to retool the way they do business.
Dale Hanson Bourke 5-01-2009
Books get a second life in a global library.
Molly Marsh 5-01-2009
Books on the environment, the economy, and equity.
The future of Appalachia -- and the planet -- depends on unseating King Coal.
Sarah K. Masterson 4-01-2009
A pop culture Word for a pop culture world.
Major record labels haven't adapted to the wired age -- and they're losing.
Chris Smith 4-01-2009
A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, by Diana Butler Bass. HarperOne.
Kaitlin Barker 4-01-2009
The End of Poverty? written and directed by Philippe Diaz. Cinema Libre Studio.
Soong-Chan Rah 4-01-2009
Excerpt from The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity.