Culture Watch

Laurel Frodge 7-01-2009
American Violet, directed by Tim Disney. Uncommon Productions.
Rosalie Riegle 7-01-2009
Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement, by Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney. Rowman & Littlefield.
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.
Molly Marsh 4-01-2009
God Drops and Loses Things, by Kilian McDonnell; 15 Days of Prayer, series from New Press; Servant or Sucker, by Beth Templeton; and CompassionArt: Creating Freedom from Poverty, by Martin Smith.
Carl Kozlowski 3-01-2009
Writing for Hollywood -- with Jesus in mind.
Does the Obama era herald a post-racial United States?