Culture Watch

Gary Haugen 8-01-2008
An excerpt from Gary Haugen's new book, Just Courage.
Molly Marsh 8-01-2008
Do it yourself—and also with others.
Christian conservatives aim for—and hit—the mainstream sweet spot.
Molly Marsh 8-01-2008
It’s My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School, by Janine Schwab and the AFSC; Women in Church History, by Joanne Turpin; Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction, by Rodney Clapp; Chant: Music for Paradise.
The Drive-By Truckers capture "the cruel radiance of what is."
Katrina Browne 7-01-2008
Filmmaker Katrina Browne talks about the impetus behind Traces of the Trade.
Dedrick Muhammad 7-01-2008
Members of a prominent slave-trading family confront the wounds of the past and present.
Brian McLaren 7-01-2008
An excerpt from Finding Our Way Again.
Duane Shank 7-01-2008

Politics in the United States, especially in an election year, often seems to be a contest of competing special interests.

Dale W. Brown 7-01-2008

Ron Hansen’s Exiles delicately displays the conjoining of the literary with the historical, biographical, philosophical, and even the theological.

Molly Marsh 7-01-2008
Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms, by Rolf Jacobson; Renewal: Stories from America's Religious-Environmental Movement; Being Consumed, by William Cavanaugh; and Dare Not Walk Alone, by Jeremy Dean.
Heltzel 6-01-2008

This spring, when inflammatory comments by Rev. Jere­miah Wright—Sen.

Patty Kupfer 6-01-2008
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, by M. Daniel Carroll Rodas. Baker Academic.
In the coming technological revolution, will there be space for the common good?
Molly Marsh 6-01-2008
The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin; Lord, Save Us From Your Followers, directed by Dan Merchant; The Poverty and Justice Bible; Founding Faith, by Steven Waldman.
Darren Hughes 6-01-2008

In early 1940, just months before he would die while fleeing the Gestapo in Spain, the Jew­ish-German literary critic Walter Benjamin assembled his “Theses on the Philosophy of History,&r

Does economic growth depend on consumer spending?
Judy Coode 4-01-2008

More than seven years ago, James Carroll, award-winning novelist and Boston Globe columnist, wrote Constantine’s Sword, which traced the history of anti-Semitism in the chu

Tapping the reservoirs of church and community.
Molly Marsh 4-01-2008
Books that bridge faith and politics.