Culture Watch

Lisa Yebuah 8-01-2005
As shareholders in God'

As shareholders in God’s eternal story, we commune with a creating God and are drawn into fellowship with a global community. Our stories become shared experiences.

An Indigo Girl - and dad - talk about music as the mediator between God and our souls.
Tobias Winright 8-01-2005
The number of executions in the United States has decreased in recent years,

The number of executions in the United States has decreased in recent years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, as has citizen support for capital punishment. A major reason is the increasing concern that innocent people may be sentenced to

The particular truth of the North Mississippi Allstars.
Deryl Davis 7-01-2005
For novelist Graham Greene and his characters, corruption could be a path to salvation.
William O'Brien 7-01-2005
Many people of faith sense that these are trying times.

Many people of faith sense that these are trying times. But some are recklessly hopeful enough to believe that God’s Spirit may be breaking in on our society in ways both new and ancient.

Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2005
In Lewis Hyde'

In Lewis Hyde’s masterpiece The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, he writes, "A market exchange has an equilibrium or stasis: you pay to balance the scale. But when you give a gift there is momentum, and the weight shifts from body to body."

Elizabeth Palmberg 7-01-2005
Noreena Hertz is an economist whose writing is not only clear -

Noreena Hertz is an economist whose writing is not only clear - it’s often lively. Hallelujah!

Molly Marsh 7-01-2005
Feed the World

Feed the World

Diana Butler Bass 6-01-2005
Ten years ago,

Ten years ago, historian Mark Noll’s important book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind began with a powerful indictment: "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." From there, Noll attacked evangelical anti-intellectualism and issued challenges to remedy the problem.

Buddy Miller's music sings louder than words.
David Hoffman 6-01-2005
Progressive voices are breaking the Right's monopoly on talk radio.
Molly Marsh 6-01-2005
Imperial Training

Imperial Training

Joseph Nangle 6-01-2005
This stern word to North American Christians from our evangelical sisters and brothers in Latin America poses the perennial -

This stern word to North American Christians from our evangelical sisters and brothers in Latin America poses the perennial - and ultimate - question: Are we Christians who happen

Bob Hulteen 6-01-2005
Too many media outlets have decided that the political divide in America pits the red against the blue.

Too many media outlets have decided that the political divide in America pits the red against the blue. In true Final Four fashion, one wins and the other loses. Such coverage allows a narrow victory to become a mandate, a close vote to grow into

Ossie Davis, Arthur Miller, and the common good.
Christa Mazzone 4-01-2005
Last December,

Last December, I boarded a plane to fly home for the holidays and plopped down in my seat, already exhausted from pre-Christmas activities and preparation. I thought to myself, "Next year, I have to get more sleep and take better care of my body. I can’t survive at this pace!"

Richard Vernon 4-01-2005
The attack of the chiller flicks.
Linda Clum 4-01-2005
As Joshua crosses the Jordan River into the promised land,

As Joshua crosses the Jordan River into the promised land, he instructs representatives from each tribe to pick up a stone, saying, "When your children ask you in the time to come, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell

Aaron McGruder rages against the machine.