Three quarters of Americans say they do not know their neighbors.
Reviews
Judy Coode 8-01-2007
The activist connected the war machine with the abandonment of U.S. urban centers.
Kimberly Burge 7-01-2007
Lucinda Williams' singing voice inhabits at least a dozen personalities, sometimes within one song.
Brian Bolton 7-01-2007
Every artist knows the pressure to "shut up and sing." But with the injustices of our nation made evident in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and in the midst of a disastrous war waged on false prete
Laurel Mathewson 6-01-2007
Since the box-office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, there's been a lot of hoopla about the big, previously neglected "Christian audience" (and how to cash in on it).
Mary Nelson 6-01-2007
Ending Poverty in America is an insightful and readable book that contains concise chapters by experts who describe the complex and intertwined aspects of poverty in America—includin
Steve Thorngate 4-01-2007
There are few words thornier than "evangelical." It's a broad category that includes fundamentalists; it's also a reaction against fundamentalism.
Amy Ard 4-01-2007
Some activists possess a certain quality that's hard to put your finger on; you just know it when you see it. They are hopeful when the situation seems hopeless, they are gracious—even to those they struggle against—and their powerful convictions are reflected not just in their speech but in the way they live their lives.
Edward A. Daugherty 3-01-2007
Common Life, Robert Cording's fifth poetry collection, is informed by religious faith and enacts it.
Dan Nejfelt 3-01-2007
Historical reflections on war often lead to the conclusion that the past is prologue, that the same ones are fought again and again, from the Peloponnesus to Afghanistan, from Vietnam to Iraq.
Lyndsay Moseley 3-01-2007
Something is bound to go terribly wrong when so many Christians see the planet as an unimportant holding place where we await salvation; or when preachers and teachers of the faith place too much e
Heidi L. Thompson 2-01-2007
Eva Mozes Kor was 9 years old when she and the rest of her family stepped off the train at Auschwitz. Within seconds, she lost sight of her father and two older sisters in the crowd.
Dale Hanson Bourke 2-01-2007
The problem with a disease defined by an extraordinary number of dead, infected, and orphaned is that it is all too easy to lose sight of the individual.
Jim Rice 12-01-2006
How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take in response to the wars waged in the name of anti-terrorism?
Joseph Wakelee-Lynch 12-01-2006
There may be no more basic lesson in persuasive writing than the futility of creating a straw man: Sketch a loose summary of an opponent’s argument in order to dismiss it with ease.