Culture Watch

Deryl Davis 2-01-2005
Faith, God's will, and time. An interview with Craig Wright.
Michaela Bruzzese 2-01-2005
A review of Faith and Feminism: a Holy Alliance, by Helen Lakelly Hunt.
Molly Marsh 1-01-2005
Economic Oppression
Turning on to life by turning off the box.
Julie Polter 1-01-2005
A glimpse of grace and abundance from - of all things - reality TV.
Charles Marsh 1-01-2005
An excerpt of the book: The Beloved Community
Jim Forest 1-01-2005

Book Review: Dorothy Day: Portaits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books: 2003).

Book Review: American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking: 2004).

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2004

 Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42502 (b&w film copy neg.)

Richard Wright was a political activist, but his loyalty was to his art.

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-2004
Bruce Springsteen as singer, guitarist - and statesman.
Elizabeth Palmberg 11-01-2004
One of the big lies of the modern age is that economics is uninteresting.

One of the big lies of the modern age is that economics is uninteresting. In reality, what is boring is the way economists write (Joseph Stiglitz, the Tom Clancy of economic prose, is the one notable exception). In contrast, no one thinks that, say,

Rose Marie Berger 11-01-2004
Swanee Hunt,

Swanee Hunt, founder of Women Waging Peace, spoke with Sojourners’ Rose Marie Berger about her book This Was Not Our War and the ways women are engaged in peace processes in conflict-ridden countries.

Sojourners: What got you involved in Bosnia?

Rose Marie Berger 11-01-2004

Worldwide, women seek to reclaim their countries from violence

The Editors 11-01-2004

A Peace Diary

Longtime peace advocate Peggy Gish traveled to Iraq, along with others in the Christian Peacemaker Teams, to do what she does best: get in the way. Iraq: A Journey of Hope and Peace is her story of their work before, during, and after the U.S. invasion. Told in the first-person, Gish recounts her efforts to create relationships with Iraqis, fight for justice, and seek peace. Herald Press.

Molly Marsh 10-01-2004
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Cinematic Borealis

Danny Duncan Collum 10-01-2004
Old-time country music is the new punk rock.
Andrea Jeyaveeran 10-01-2004
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In The Coal Tattoo, Silas House’s third novel, House conjures up a setting that breathes and hums with life. Kentucky coal country in the 1960s is more a character than a mere backdrop for his story. Easter and Anneth, the sisters at the heart of the novel, are as bound to the mountains, creeks,

Kimberly Burge 10-01-2004
Sacred Singing, rooted in comunity and place