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Class warfare: AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service--and How It Hurts Our Country, by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer
Recently Senator John Kerry suffered yet another self-inflicted wound with a clumsy joke....
Take and read
Cunningham invites readers to take their own Holy Week pilgrimage through suffering and death to ...
Liberal heroes
This book completes a magnificent scholarly accomplishment: the three-volume The Making of...
Public visions
By some accounts, the 2006 elections signaled a seismic shift in the political landscape for American Christ...
Same-sex unions
As a Jesuit theologian working in a university setting, I am occasionally asked to discuss difficult q...
The heart of the gospel
Willard Swartley’s powerful, comprehensive study of the theme of peace in the New Testament is his magnu...
Loss and recovery
As an attempt to address the realities of post-9/11 trauma, Reign Over Me is so misbegotten that it trivializes the subject....
Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 11:1-18)
In this series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts. Feel free to post a comment....
Blogging toward Sunday (Acts 9:36-43)
In this new series, authors offer reflections on the Sunday lectionary texts. Feel free to join the discussion by adding your thoughts....
Repeat performance: Pastoral plagiarism
Tom Long, one of the preachers I’m tempted to steal from, points out in this issue that stealing sermons is an old phenomenon but...
Courage in Zimbabwe: Christians resisting nonviolently
The activities of courageous Christians in Zimbabwe could be chapters in a new, politicized version of the book of Acts....
Century Marks
Party politics and piety: Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report is skeptical that Democrats can win over evangelical voters by using the right language. The Democrats had minimal impact on white evangelical voters in 2006, Rothenberg says. White evangelicals are more likely to change the Republican Party than to change parties (Roll Call, March 22).
Hypothetical fraud: Behind the firing of David Iglesias
The Justice Department has made stamping out fraud by individual voters a priority....
Methodist merger not in view: Smaller denominations won't be "swallowed up"
Bishops from six U.S. Methodist denominations have pledged to work together on common social-justice goals. But they quashed the notion that a merger or union is likely....
Episcopal bishops nix foreign oversight: A declaration of independence
Episcopal bishops have brushed off an attempt to give overseas Anglicans a role in governing the Episcopal Church, saying such a move would be “injurious” and could lead to a permanent division of...
Disagreement on same-sex relations riles Lutheran body: Heated debate in Lutheran World Federation
Blessings for people living in same-sex relationships triggered heated debate at a meeting last month of the main governing body of the Lutheran World Federation in the southern Swedish city of Lun...