Culture Watch

A Youthful Voice for Justice

Celeste Kennel-Shank 5-01-1999

A 15-year-old activist fights against child abuse.

Grace that Transforms

Nicholas Piediscalzi 5-01-1999

Through death, learning about love.

A Sweet But Painful Joy

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-1999

In the end, a paean to Life.

Just a Glimmer of Hope

Ted Parks 5-01-1999

Relationship as political critique.

Reconcilable Values

Jo Ann Heydron 5-01-1999

Living a contemplative a feminist life.

Crooked Little Faith

Kimberly Burge 5-01-1999

Writer Anne Lamott staggers toward Jesus.

Life is (Sad and) Beautiful

Danny Duncan Collum 5-01-1999

We walked into a plush four-screen cinema in the affluent suburbs of east Memphis and took our place in the ticket line.

Healers of the Breach

Brent Coffin, Sam Herring 3-01-1999

Urban churches bridge barriers of neighborhood, class, and race

Ignorance and Grace

Liane Ellison Norman 3-01-1999

Lessons from The Poisonwood Bible.

Truth in Flower and Song

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-1999

Ancient music for the contemporary church

The Source and the Fruit

Duane Shank 3-01-1999

Henri Nouwen on spirituality and justice

Public Truth-Telling

Molly Marsh 3-01-1999

Moyers on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The Future of Faith

Joan Chittister 3-01-1999

Wuthnow's "ecclesiastical chaos theory"

The Poet as Priest

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 3-01-1999

Luis Rodriguez grapples with the helter skelter

Paging Stuart Smalley

Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-1999

Twenty-five years ago, I was a 19-year-old college kid joyously wallowing in Watergate.

Pitting Forgiveness Against hate

Sherrod Brown 1-01-1999

John Lewis and the civil rights movement.

Wrestling With the 'Scary' Words

Julie Polter 1-01-1999

Kathleen Norris' Amazing Grace

Driving Forward, Looking Back

Matthew Colwell 1-01-1999

Peter Campbell's retrospective offers strength for the journey.

Pledging Allegiance to God

Lowell Erdahl 1-01-1999

Johann Arnold's gentle, troubling witness.

A Call to Peacemaking

Leon Howell 1-01-1999

Moving beyond pacifism and just war.