Culture Watch

Now playing near you: A global monoculture.
Steve Thorngate 4-01-2007

There are few words thornier than "evangelical." It's a broad category that includes fundamentalists; it's also a reaction against fundamentalism.

Laurel Mathewson 4-01-2007

Real Re-Creation

These are the anti-megachurches.
Amy Ard 4-01-2007

Some activists possess a certain quality that's hard to put your finger on; you just know it when you see it. They are hopeful when the situation seems hopeless, they are gracious—even to those they struggle against—and their powerful convictions are reflected not just in their speech but in the way they live their lives.

Charles A. Kimball 4-01-2007

Three evangelicals on the challenges of Israel-Palestine.

Lyndsay Moseley 3-01-2007

Something is bound to go terribly wrong when so many Christians see the planet as an unimportant holding place where we await salvation; or when preachers and teachers of the faith place too much e

Julie Polter 3-01-2007
Why do Americans want to live so large?

Common Life, Robert Cording's fifth poetry collection, is informed by religious faith and enacts it.

Dan Nejfelt 3-01-2007

Historical reflections on war often lead to the conclusion that the past is prologue, that the same ones are fought again and again, from the Peloponnesus to Afghanistan, from Vietnam to Iraq.

Everday low prices are part of our American birthright. Right?
The Editors 3-01-2007

More Peas, Please

Heidi L. Thompson 2-01-2007

Eva Mozes Kor was 9 years old when she and the rest of her family stepped off the train at Auschwitz. Within seconds, she lost sight of her father and two older sisters in the crowd.

Jason Byassee 2-01-2007

Liberal churches are dying. Conservative churches are growing.

Dale Hanson Bourke 2-01-2007

The problem with a disease defined by an extraordinary number of dead, infected, and orphaned is that it is all too easy to lose sight of the individual.

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Molly Marsh 2-01-2007
Stitching for Social (and personal) change.
The Editors 2-01-2007

Going Deeper

The poet, musician, author (and senior citizen) keeps it real- and keeps it coming.
Bill Williams 1-01-2007

Each day, 6,600 Africans die of AIDS.