Reviews

Andrew Wilkes 12-01-2008

In Disciples of the Street, Eric Gutierrez weaves three storylines into a narrative about the role of hip-hop in Christian ministry.

Rosalie G. Riegle 8-01-2008
Book review: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg.
Steve Thorngate 8-01-2008
Book review: From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again, by Debbie Blue.
Anna Almendrala 8-01-2008
Film review: Take, directed by Charles Oliver.
Duane Shank 7-01-2008

Politics in the United States, especially in an election year, often seems to be a contest of competing special interests.

Dale W. Brown 7-01-2008

Ron Hansen’s Exiles delicately displays the conjoining of the literary with the historical, biographical, philosophical, and even the theological.

Heltzel 6-01-2008

This spring, when inflammatory comments by Rev. Jere­miah Wright—Sen.

Patty Kupfer 6-01-2008

Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, by M. Daniel Carroll Rodas. Baker Academic.

Molly Marsh 12-01-2007

One of the opening scenes in Angels in the Dust shows waking children, some two to a bed, others with cats curled up beside them, greeting what looks like a chilly day in South Africa.

Molly Marsh 12-01-2007

Poverty 101

Barrios Unidos isn’t what most people would think of when they hear the phrase “faith-based organization.” Even though it’s not aligned with any church or traditional religi

Or N. Rose 12-01-2007

Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition is part of a growing body of literature written by progressive Jews, Christians, and Muslims seeking to articulate alternative visions to

Kathy McGinnis 11-01-2007
A list of life-shaping books for children.
Ginny Moore Kruse 11-01-2007
Gripping books for young people provide handles for engaging the world - even the world of violence and war.

Call them what you will—"green nuns," "eco-nuns," or "green sisters"—but across the country Roman Catholic vowed women are actively engaged in tending and healing the earth.

Ted Parks 9-01-2007

A black-and-white movie about the bleakness of life in Watts, California—shot for $10,000 about 30 years ago and never intended for theaters—doesn't exactly fit the Hollywood formula.

Bob Francis 9-01-2007

Religious groups are continuously negotiating between what they perceive as fixed elements of their religious character and a myriad of dynamic pressures—including periods of rapid social cha

Randall Balmer 8-01-2007

In spring 1998, James Dobson, founder and head of Focus on the Family, was mad, and he traveled to Washington, D.C., to vent his fury.