Culture Watch

Arthur P. Boers 5-01-1994
Biblical stories as movie scripts.
Bob Hulteen 5-01-1994

Debate over the relative merit of different Bible translations is so commonplace it is normally ignored but by a very few. Recently, however, ecclesiastic, and even secular, attention has been c

Julie Polter 5-01-1994
The practical theology of home.

After 25 years missing and presumed dead, the Western movie genre has enjoyed an amazing resurrection in the past few years.

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Patrick G. Coy 4-01-1994
A history of organizing against militarism and sexism.
Calvin Morris 4-01-1994
Sankofa's truth will set you free.
Thad Williamson 4-01-1994
Bob Dylan's bid to introduce past and present.
Karen Lattea 4-01-1994
Carrie Newcomer on faith, folk and fun.
Bob Hulteen 4-01-1994

Good movies are often not easy to watch for progressive Christian-types. In films of lesser quality, the action and violence is an end in itself rather than a vehicle to drive the drama.

In 1936, Charlie Chaplin made one of the very last silent films, Modern Times.

Carla F. Levenson 2-01-1994
A neighborhood theater offers community action.
Bob Hulteen 2-01-1994

These are difficult days for those who argue that America is a homogenous culture built on European-Christian principles.

Pamela J. Rowen 2-01-1994
Churches as religious corporations
Jualynne E. Dodson 2-01-1994
Paul Washington and the challenge to growth.
Kathryn Collmer 2-01-1994
Wendell Berry is thinking locally.
Gordon Houser 1-01-1994
Ernest Gaines' age of heroes.
Chris Byrd 1-01-1994
Capital punishment and the human face.
Carlos Santana weaves a musician's tale.

As this is written, The Great Depression - produced by Henry Hampton's Blackside Inc., the team behind the epochal Eyes on the Prize series - has just started its four-week run