Culture Watch

Just a Glimmer of Hope

Ted Parks 5-01-1999
Relationship as political critique.
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Reconcilable Values

Jo Ann Heydron 5-01-1999

Living a contemplative a feminist life.

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Crooked Little Faith

Kimberly Burge 5-01-1999

Writer Anne Lamott staggers toward Jesus.

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Life is (Sad and) Beautiful

Danny Duncan Collum 5-01-1999

We walked into a plush four-screen cinema in the affluent suburbs of east Memphis and took our place in the ticket line.

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Paging Stuart Smalley

Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-1999

Twenty-five years ago, I was a 19-year-old college kid joyously wallowing in Watergate.

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Healers of the Breach

Brent Coffin, Sam Herring 3-01-1999
Urban churches bridge barriers of neighborhood, class, and race
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Ignorance and Grace

Liane Ellison Norman 3-01-1999
Lessons from The Poisonwood Bible.
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Truth in Flower and Song

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-1999
Ancient music for the contemporary church
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The Source and the Fruit

Duane Shank 3-01-1999
Henri Nouwen on spirituality and justice
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Public Truth-Telling

Molly Marsh 3-01-1999
Moyers on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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The Future of Faith

Joan Chittister 3-01-1999

Wuthnow's "ecclesiastical chaos theory"

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The Poet as Priest

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 3-01-1999

Luis Rodriguez grapples with the helter skelter

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A Call to Peacemaking

Leon Howell 1-01-1999
Moving beyond pacifism and just war.
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Suffering As Sacrifice

Jo Ann Heydron 1-01-1999

Is a 'good' woman a sacrificing one?

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High Fidelity Faith

Susan Hogan/Albach 1-01-1999

Contemporary Christian music and its accent on celebrity

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Woody Guthrie Saves Rock and Roll

Danny Duncan Collum 1-01-1999

By now you've probably heard the news. The greatest rock-and-roll record of 1998 featured 50-year-old songs by a guy who's 10 years deader than Elvis.

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Pitting Forgiveness Against hate

Sherrod Brown 1-01-1999
John Lewis and the civil rights movement.
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Wrestling With the 'Scary' Words

Julie Polter 1-01-1999
Kathleen Norris' Amazing Grace
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Driving Forward, Looking Back

Matthew Colwell 1-01-1999
Peter Campbell's retrospective offers strength for the journey.
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Pledging Allegiance to God

Lowell Erdahl 1-01-1999
Johann Arnold's gentle, troubling witness.
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