Culture Watch

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.
Cara Boekeloo 4-01-2008
In his 2006 book, The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne urged us to be careful what we pray for, because God may call us to live it out—often in profound ways.
Barbara Slavin 4-01-2008

How many of your friends and neighbors know, as Barbara Slavin writes in Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, that during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini vetoed the use o

Molly Marsh 4-01-2008

A Dangerous Journey

The media reform movement comes of age.
Tony P. Hall 3-01-2008

When I first entered politics in the late 1960s, I had never heard the term “evangelical.” If I did, I certainly didn’t know what it meant.

Lynn Schwebach 3-01-2008

The transition of today’s churches from modernism to postmodernism dominates many discussions in Christian and secular media.

Jason Byassee 3-01-2008

It is hard to remember how controversial the ministry of Martin Luther King Jr. was during his life.

C. McNair Wilson 3-01-2008

Calling Ken Medema a singer-composer is like calling the Yankees a ball club. For his latest CD, Sea Change, Ken is also orchestrator, back-up vocalist (and choir), and percussionist.

The Editors 3-01-2008

Reading the Red Letters

Donovan Jacobs 3-01-2008
Documentary films put human faces on the Millennium Development Goals
Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2008

FULL TRANSCRIPT - WEB EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Fernando Botero by Rose Marie Berger

Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2008

EXCLUSIVO EN LA WEB: Entrevista con Fernando Botero Por Rose Marie Berger

Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2008

Fernando Botero on Abu Ghraib

Ronald J. Sider 2-01-2008

Tragically, Christian political activity today is a disaster. Christ­ians embrace contradictory positions on almost every political issue.

Chuck Collins 2-01-2008

The gospel calls us to a “preferential option for the poor” to address the conditions of the 37 million adults and children who live in poverty in the United States.

Madeleine Mysko 2-01-2008

Before he was killed in World War I—tragically, just days before the Armistice—the poet Wilfred Owen wrote these words as preface to the book he never got to hold in his hands: “

Darren Hughes 2-01-2008

Even at a length of just under 100 pages, Ron Austin’s In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts is four or five books in one, a quality that proves to be both an asset and a c