Culture Watch

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2007
Ideology, without love, is worse than nothing.
Molly Marsh 12-01-2007

Poverty 101

Barrios Unidos isn’t what most people would think of when they hear the phrase “faith-based organization.” Even though it’s not aligned with any church or traditional religi

Kathy McGinnis 11-01-2007
A list of life-shaping books for children.
Ginny Moore Kruse 11-01-2007
Gripping books for young people provide handles for engaging the world - even the world of violence and war.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2007

When Michael Moore’s documentary about the U.S. health care system, Sicko, opened in theaters last June, I wasn’t feeling too well myself.

Call them what you will—"green nuns," "eco-nuns," or "green sisters"—but across the country Roman Catholic vowed women are actively engaged in tending and healing the earth.

Molly Marsh 9-01-2007

Race Matters

True to Our Native Land, edited by Brian Blount, describes itself as the first African-American commentary on the New Testament.

Bart Preecs 9-01-2007
In the discussions of
Ted Parks 9-01-2007

A black-and-white movie about the bleakness of life in Watts, California—shot for $10,000 about 30 years ago and never intended for theaters—doesn't exactly fit the Hollywood formula.

Bob Francis 9-01-2007

Religious groups are continuously negotiating between what they perceive as fixed elements of their religious character and a myriad of dynamic pressures—including periods of rapid social cha

Corporate fixes lead to corporate control.
It's time to bring fairness back to the nation's airwaves.
Randall Balmer 8-01-2007

In spring 1998, James Dobson, founder and head of Focus on the Family, was mad, and he traveled to Washington, D.C., to vent his fury.

Bill Williams 8-01-2007
Three quarters of Americans say they do not know their neighbors.
Judy Coode 8-01-2007
The activist connected the war machine with the abandonment of U.S. urban centers.
Kimberly Burge 8-01-2007
A journalist's portrait of a pandemic.
Singing the songs of a bygone world.
Kimberly Burge 7-01-2007

Lucinda Williams' singing voice inhabits at least a dozen personalities, sometimes within one song.