Culture Watch

The Editors 3-01-2007

More Peas, Please

Lyndsay Moseley 3-01-2007

Something is bound to go terribly wrong when so many Christians see the planet as an unimportant holding place where we await salvation; or when preachers and teachers of the faith place too much e

Molly Marsh 2-01-2007
Stitching for Social (and personal) change.
The Editors 2-01-2007

Going Deeper

Heidi L. Thompson 2-01-2007

Eva Mozes Kor was 9 years old when she and the rest of her family stepped off the train at Auschwitz. Within seconds, she lost sight of her father and two older sisters in the crowd.

Jason Byassee 2-01-2007

Liberal churches are dying. Conservative churches are growing.

Dale Hanson Bourke 2-01-2007

The problem with a disease defined by an extraordinary number of dead, infected, and orphaned is that it is all too easy to lose sight of the individual.

This message brought to you by anti-capitalist-capitalists.
The poet, musician, author (and senior citizen) keeps it real- and keeps it coming.
Bill Williams 1-01-2007

Each day, 6,600 Africans die of AIDS.

Steve Thorngate 1-01-2007

I don’t usually expect too much from blues-rock music.

John Potter 1-01-2007
Pop musician Moby on how his faith affects his lifestyle, art, and activism.
The Editors 1-01-2007

Spiritual Witnesses
Women Saints: 365 Daily Readings, by Madonna Sophia Compton, with Maria Compton Hernandez and Patricia Campbell, provides reflections on holy women

Jesus was a political revolutionary—not the meek figure he is commonly portrayed as—whose teachings have been diluted, if not corrupted, by those in positions of power, writes Obery Hen

The Editors 12-01-2006

DIVINE ART

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2006
The war on the war on Christmas
Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2006
Appalachian-influenced music with a modern twist: Zoe Speaks.
Jim Rice 12-01-2006

How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take in response to the wars waged in the name of anti-terrorism?

There may be no more basic lesson in persuasive writing than the futility of creating a straw man: Sketch a loose summary of an opponent’s argument in order to dismiss it with ease.

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2006
Who will control the stories we tell-and who gets to see them?