Culture Watch

Brian McLaren 7-01-2008
An excerpt from Finding Our Way Again.
In the coming technological revolution, will there be space for the common good?
Molly Marsh 6-01-2008
The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin; Lord, Save Us From Your Followers, directed by Dan Merchant; The Poverty and Justice Bible; Founding Faith, by Steven Waldman.
Darren Hughes 6-01-2008

In early 1940, just months before he would die while fleeing the Gestapo in Spain, the Jew­ish-German literary critic Walter Benjamin assembled his “Theses on the Philosophy of History,&r

Heltzel 6-01-2008

This spring, when inflammatory comments by Rev. Jere­miah Wright—Sen.

Patty Kupfer 6-01-2008

Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, by M. Daniel Carroll Rodas. Baker Academic.

Does economic growth depend on consumer spending?
Julie Polter 4-01-2008

Who needs a charity ball when you can have a potluck?

Judy Coode 4-01-2008

More than seven years ago, James Carroll, award-winning novelist and Boston Globe columnist, wrote Constantine’s Sword, which traced the history of anti-Semitism in the chu

Tapping the reservoirs of church and community.
Molly Marsh 4-01-2008
Books that bridge faith and politics.
Cara Boekeloo 4-01-2008
In his 2006 book, The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne urged us to be careful what we pray for, because God may call us to live it out—often in profound ways.
Barbara Slavin 4-01-2008

How many of your friends and neighbors know, as Barbara Slavin writes in Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, that during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini vetoed the use o

Molly Marsh 4-01-2008

A Dangerous Journey

Lynn Schwebach 3-01-2008

The transition of today’s churches from modernism to postmodernism dominates many discussions in Christian and secular media.

Jason Byassee 3-01-2008

It is hard to remember how controversial the ministry of Martin Luther King Jr. was during his life.

C. McNair Wilson 3-01-2008

Calling Ken Medema a singer-composer is like calling the Yankees a ball club. For his latest CD, Sea Change, Ken is also orchestrator, back-up vocalist (and choir), and percussionist.

The Editors 3-01-2008

Reading the Red Letters

Donovan Jacobs 3-01-2008
Documentary films put human faces on the Millennium Development Goals
The media reform movement comes of age.