Culture Watch

Twentysomethings' activism on campus.

It's tough to be a conspiracy nut these days, because the conspiratorial worldview has gone positively mainstream. Nobody's sure anymore who's a nut and who's not.

Bob Hulteen 5-01-1995

The popular music world was abuzz in 1994 when a recording of music 15 centuries old (and recorded over the last two decades) ended up a big seller for the year.

David A. Fagan 5-01-1995
Frank Peretti and popular Christian fiction.
Susan Meeker-Lowry 5-01-1995
Building hope in the inner city of Boston
Jim Wallis 5-01-1995
The heart of Michael Lerner's vision
Suzanne St. Yves 3-01-1995
Madeleine L'Engle's search for God
David Rhoads 3-01-1995
The surprise of Pauline praxis.
There's no place like home.
Shane Helmer 3-01-1995
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
Brent Short 3-01-1995
Michael Been's new offering.
The making of a community

It was inevitable that our de facto federal ministry of culture would be among the first and most visible targets when Newt Gingrich, the Trotsky of the Hard Right, took the House.

Bob Hulteen 3-01-1995

Liberation theology, in its Catholic variant, encouraged communities of faith to find themselves in the scripture-to identify with the people of God in a different time and place...

David S. Cunningham 12-01-1994
Flannery O'Connor's disorienting fiction
Bob Hulteen 12-01-1994

Amidst the joy of celebrating the coming of the Child at Christmas, many of us are caught up in the bustle of holiday travels, shopping sprees, and plans to serve those less fortunate.

Karen Lattea 12-01-1994
Groups that work.
John Schramm 12-01-1994
Ordinary experience and extraordinary insight.
Richard Vernon 12-01-1994
The Vigilantes of Love's views on the American Dream
Jeremy Lloyd 12-01-1994
Public forgiveness and TV Scandal.