Roland Emmerich is known for making the kind of disaster movies that fans of quality filmmaking love to hate.
Culture Watch
Christopher Smith 1-01-2012
War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity, by Stanley Hauerwas.
Robert Hirschfield 1-01-2012
Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art, and the Architecture of Silence. And, Fasting For Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice.
Jason Storbakken 1-01-2012
Activist pastor Gardener C. Taylor on lessons learned in a long life of faithfully taking the side of the oppressed.
Elizabeth Palmberg 1-01-2012
"I think it is a spiritual task to struggle with questions such as what and who we place at the center of our economy"
Gareth Higgins 12-01-2011
Clooney's new movie, The Ides of March, serves as a thoughtful and entertaining mirror for next year's presidential election.
Larisa Friesen Hall 12-01-2011
'Does the bullet know Christian from Muslim? Does the bullet choose?'
Rosalie Riegle 12-01-2011
Dorothy Day's deep love of God and her unwavering ability to see God in those the world shuns.
Robert Hirschfield 12-01-2011
Finding connections between the past, present, and future at Occupy Wall Street.
Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2011
How blind commitment to 'free trade' throws working people under the bus.
Christopher Smith 11-16-2011
A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt by Kyle T. Kramer.
Gareth Higgins 9-01-2011
The round-up on late-summer cinema, including: Solaris, The Tree of Life, and Super 8.
Gene Luen Yang 9-01-2011
Why, despite mutual suspicions, Christianity and comics go together like paper and ink.
Julie Polter 9-01-2011
Life Stories
Alison Owings interviewed members of 16 tribal nations for the oral history Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans, capturing intimate, engaging perspectives from long-overlooked communities. An inspiring antidote to the ignorance many non-Indigenous people may unwittingly hold about contemporary Native American lives. Rutgers University Press
Danny Duncan Collum 9-01-2011
Springsteen has always understood that the rock-and-roll story is about freedom.
Lauren F. Winner 9-01-2011
The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith, by Sarah Azaransky.