New and Noteworthy books.
Culture Watch
Betty Spackman 9-01-2006
The difference between messaging the truth - and being messengers of the truth.
Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-2006
Neil Young's Living With War reopens the channel between artist and audience.
Julie Polter 8-01-2006
Like a cluster of traffic cops, insurance adjusters, and whiplash lawyers at a multicar pileup, writers of all sorts are trying to make sense of the dangerous intersection of faith and politics in
Glen H. Stassen 8-01-2006
The Sermon on the Mount is one of the gems of the New Testament, comprised as it is of the spare beauty of the Beatitudes and the solemn pleas of the Lord’s Prayer.
Steve Thorngate 8-01-2006
This day is filling up my room,
Is coming through my door.
Oh, I have not seen this day before.
John Potter 8-01-2006
Is a movement of post-punk, justice-seeking, Jesus-following musicians on the rise?
Jeshua Erickson 7-01-2006
Bob Ekblad has been reading the Bible with people who live on the margins—Chicano gang members, prison inmates, and undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States, among others
Steve Thorngate 7-01-2006
I was visiting a church at which pentecostal practices were gaining traction, bringing no small controversy with them.
Danny Duncan Collum 7-01-2006
As newspapers die a slow death, can cable, radio, and the Web really provide serious, independent news?
Kate Bowman-Johnston 7-01-2006
Hollywood's humanitarian helpers direct more attention to global hot spots. But does it help?
Danny Duncan Collum 7-01-2006
Members and associates of Holy Family Catholic Church in Natchez, the first African-American parish in Mississippi, played an integral role in the civil rights movement.
Tom Montgomery-Fate 6-01-2006
Author Marilynne Robinson explores the sacredness of the everyday world.