Culture

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.
Gareth Higgins 9-28-2007

It's intriguing how many current films address questions of revenge and justice. Like all cinematic epidemics, this is a mixed bag, from Quentin Tarantino's alternately boring and horrifying car-crash fest Death Proof, just released on DVD, to the slasher-style terror of Death Sentence starring Kevin Bacon, to the mature and moving reflection on justice and fatherhood in 3:10 [...]

Singing the songs of a bygone world.
Jesse Holcomb 7-01-2007
Remembering who we are in a digitally fragmented world.
Becky Garrison 6-01-2007
During the Tribeca Film Festival, I happened to catch the world premiere of the documentary http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-lear/pete
Administrator 4-16-2007

I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the artists I like somehow conform to my beliefs. (I tire of the endless debates in evangelical circles about whether Bono is a "real" Christian or [...]

Administrator 4-16-2007

I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the artists I like somehow conform to my beliefs. (I tire of the endless debates in evangelical circles about whether Bono is a "real" Christian or [...]

Administrator 4-16-2007

I'm not an evangelical who reads only what affirms my theology, or failing that, tries to pretend that the artists I like somehow conform to my beliefs. (I tire of the endless debates in evangelical circles about whether Bono is a "real" Christian or [...]

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Cycle C.
These are the anti-megachurches.
Jason Byassee 2-01-2007

Liberal churches are dying. Conservative churches are growing.

This message brought to you by anti-capitalist-capitalists.
Tamara Draut 2-01-2007

Collaboration between low- and middle-income people is one of the keys to rebuilding the broken American Dream.

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2006
The war on the war on Christmas
James Ferguson 12-01-2006

If you want to be cool this Christmas, nothing is more “in” than irony and nothing is more ironic than sending gifts wrapped with Jesus packaging tape—printed with Andy Warhol-esq

Donovan Jacobs 11-01-2006

Maybe a single film can't change the world, but put a social action campaign behind it and you have the seeds of a movement.

'Prairie Home Companion' hits prime time.

Child rearing, never an easy endeavour, has become in many ways a countercultural activity.

Craig Detweiler 12-01-2005
Participating in the Divine