Culture Watch

Sarah K. Masterson 4-01-2009
A pop culture Word for a pop culture world.
Major record labels haven't adapted to the wired age -- and they're losing.
Chris Smith 4-01-2009
A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, by Diana Butler Bass. HarperOne.
Kaitlin Barker 4-01-2009
The End of Poverty? written and directed by Philippe Diaz. Cinema Libre Studio.
Soong-Chan Rah 4-01-2009
Excerpt from The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity.
Molly Marsh 4-01-2009
God Drops and Loses Things, by Kilian McDonnell; 15 Days of Prayer, series from New Press; Servant or Sucker, by Beth Templeton; and CompassionArt: Creating Freedom from Poverty, by Martin Smith.
Edward F. Snyder 3-01-2009
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass. Orbis.
Carl Kozlowski 3-01-2009
Writing for Hollywood -- with Jesus in mind.
Does the Obama era herald a post-racial United States?
J. Dana Trent 3-01-2009

Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don't Give Away More Money, by Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson, with Patricia Snell. Oxford University Press.

Molly Marsh 3-01-2009
The Complete Leader's Guide to Christian Retreats, by Rachel Gilmore; In Romero's Legacy, by Pilar and John Hogan; Wage Theft in America, by Kim Bobo; and Becoming the Answers to Our Prayers, by Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove.
Marilyn Lacey 3-01-2009
An excerpt from This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers.
An excerpt from the book An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith.
Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2009
Our Bright Future, by Tracy Chapman.
Richard Vernon 2-01-2009
Oral history: Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, in their own words.
Will President Obama deliver on his promises of media reform?
Molly Marsh 2-01-2009
Sabbath, by Dan Allender; Fasting, by Scot McKnight; The Church on Dauphine Street, by Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson; Engaged Spirituality, by Joe Nangle; and March On! by Christine King Farris.
John Malkin 2-01-2009
Jesuit John Dear and his Persistent Peace.
Kimberly Burge 2-01-2009

Pray the Devil Back to Hell, by Gini Reticker and Abigail E. Disney.

Helping parents resist the siren song of marketers.