Country music has always been cruel to its purest products.
Culture Watch
Kimberly Burge 7-01-2001
Author of such novels as Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen believes in the power of stories and in the role that they can play in an examination of a faith-filled life.
Beth Isaacson 7-01-2001
DiFranco wrestles openly with her choice 'to invite someone into her melodrama.'
William O'Brien 7-01-2001
One of the most urgent issues for faith communities during the 1980s was the contra war in Nicaragua.
Chris Byrd 7-01-2001
It's easy to defend the death penalty in the abstract, but much more difficult when you have to participate in death.
David Whettstone 7-01-2001
Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor in The Executed God.
Larry Bellinger 7-01-2001
On Spirit of the Century, the Blind Boys bring their strong and gritty harmonies to traditional gospel tunes as well as rock and roll.
Stacia M. Brown 7-01-2001
The Veterans of Hope video series profiles nonviolence activists from around the world.
Danny Duncan Collum 5-01-2001
Disney's 'urban' experience is cleaned-up, dumbed-down, and smoothed-over.
Bob Massey 5-01-2001
It only seemed like 2000 was the year of Limp Bizkit, Eminem, and Britney. Music of subtlety and substance was indeed made. This was some of it:
Kimberly Burge 5-01-2001
Tribute albums are tricky beasts. Any artist who warrants such acclaim will no doubt have a strong following with deeply held opinions about the merit of someone else singing those songs.
Molly Marsh 5-01-2001
You might wonder how opera diva Kathleen Battle, the best-selling computer game MYST, and TV shopping networks all work into a conversation about Christianity.
Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 3-01-2001
Like many North American Christians, I had my spiritual journey upended in the 1980s by an encounter with poor believers from Latin America.
Elizabeth Newberry 3-01-2001
David LaMotte's sixth album fills the void left by sentimental, synthesizer-laden Christian pop-rock and modern rock lyrics about shopping, leather pants, and next year's Infiniti model.
Joan Chittister, Marcie Bircher 3-01-2001
An excerpt from The Friendship of Women: A Spiritual Tradition