Culture Watch

Julie Polter 8-01-2011

Love Provokes

Gareth Higgins 8-01-2011

The award for most surprisingly profound film of 2011 might go to Bridesmaids. This story of a woman trying to figure out her path in the midst of witness

Brittany Shoot 8-01-2011

How do we find ourselves and God in the midst of media overload?

One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow, by Scot McKnight. Zondervan.

Lauren F. Winner 7-01-2011

Lauren F. Winner reviews The Furnace of Affliction: Prison and Religion in Antebellum America, by Jennifer Graber. UNC Press.

The mainstreaming of Rand is, in large part, the work of one man (and his money).

Jason Howard 7-01-2011

Humanitarian, award winning actress, and best-selling author Ashley Judd reflects on her faith and "true calling" -- social justice activism.

One man searches for balance between family and solitude, nature and technology.

In 1886, members of America's fledgling labor movement called a general strike for May 1 to demand an eight-hour work day.

Julie Polter 6-13-2011

... Voices from Africa

Julie Polter 6-13-2011

Six books on the ongoing search for peace and justice in the Middle East and beyond.

Claire Lorentzen 6-13-2011

Books on migration and the immigrant experience.

Lauren F. Winner 6-13-2011
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Tom and Kwikki / Shutterstock

Women's ongoing search, in life and texts, for equality and empowerment.

Betsy Shirley 6-03-2011

Bio: Founded Empowering and Strengthing Ohio's People (ESOP) to stop predatory lending and home foreclosures. Website: www.esop-cleveland.org.

Julie Polter 6-03-2011

Julie Polter reviews current books and films.

"A white man's country" became the multiracial, multicultural democracy we now inhabit.

Gareth Higgins 6-03-2011

Gareth Higgins reviews Batle: Los Angeles, Saving Private Ryan, and Chinatown.

Andrew Bradstock 6-03-2011

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press.

Kimberly Burge 6-03-2011

The Better Angels, by John Francis. Horse and Rider/Dualtone.

William O'Brien 6-03-2011

Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing.