Miles and miles of two-lane blacktop crisscross the rural South, forming a web of connections among myriad small towns with declining populations and evaporating economic base
Culture Watch
Amy Sullivan 11-01-2003
On the first weekend of every September, before cold winds off the Great Lakes turn the air chilly, the Plymouth Fall Festival takes place along Main Street in my hometown of Plymouth, Michigan.
Julie Polter 11-01-2003
Flannery O'Connor was a master short-story writer, dark humorist, and astute cultural observer.
Kathryn Harrison 9-01-2003
When Thérèse Martin died in 1897 at age 24, she was a nobody; most of the world had never heard of her.
Gareth Higgins 9-01-2003
Gareth Higgins, author of the new book How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books) writes about...
J. Daryl Byler 9-01-2003
While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge—integrating U.S. churches.
In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day
Danny Duncan Collum 9-01-2003
A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us.
Judy Coode 7-01-2003
Justice-focused economists understand that the dominant world financial system is based on con- stant replenishment, and those who are unable for whatever reason to contribute
Jo Ann Heydron 7-01-2003
I avoid movies with car chases and wish more television heroes were not both handsome and single. In my reading, however, I tend to be more open-minded.
Demetria Martinez 7-01-2003
The New World, by George Evans. In times like these I savor poetry that is prophecy, that moves nimbly between denunciation and annunciation.
Peter Steinfels 7-01-2003
Is the Catholic Church heading toward irreversible decline or is it on the verge of transformation?