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Burden of choice
Barry Schwartz’s book became a page-turner for me when he began discussing a survey of preferences in medical care....
When Science and Christianity Meet
Christian faith has generally had an uneasy and sometimes extremely contentious relationship with modern science, a relationship that this book...
Real Kids, Real Faith: Practices for Nurturing Children's Spiritual Lives
I wish this book had been around 20 years ago....
God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism
One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English ...
The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World
If Douglas John Hall is right, the gospel has been almost eclipsed by Christian triumphalism....
Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in an Age of Evolution
Here is the mature thought of one of the academy’s most eloquent and learned scholars of religion and science...
Pilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain
From Columba at Iona to Evelyn Underhill at Pleshey, British men and women of past generations yearned to know God and follo...
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages
About 15 years ago a proposal to eliminate the Th.D....
The heat is on
Since bursting onto the national scene in 1989 with his celebrated documentary Roger & Me, Michael Moore has gone from being that goofy overweight filmmaker in tennis shoes and a ...
Holy impatience: William Sloane Coffin, critic of the church
It is a little unusual for a biography (William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience) to be published when its subject is not only alive but is the author of his own just-published be...
No contest: Redistricting strategies are making elections less meaningful
When Americans go to the polls in November to select their representatives in Congress, this great exercise in democracy will be tarnished by the fact that in most cases the outcome is virtually pr...
Century Marks
End of discussion: A church youth group was discussing how 9/11 affected their prayer life....
Making do: Resourcefulness and desperation in Haiti
To call Fondwa a village is misleading. It has no central point of organization or population density. It is defined by a road that snakes through a valley 40 miles southwest of Port au Prince....
On the faith-based campain trail: Bush shores up support
As presidential campaigns swung into their final five months, President Bush worked at cementing his strong support from evangelicals and shoring up ties to Catholics by visiting and honoring Pope ...
Reagan political years paralleled right's rise: The Gipper's legacy
Ronald Reagan’s influence on Christian politics in this country will be felt for years to come....
After stem cell rules, senators urge Bush: Fifty-seven say Bush's policy no longer adequate
Fifty-eight senators have asked President Bush to ease restrictions on stem cell research, with some noting that the late President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease could have been aided by expa...
Judge overrules 'partial-birth' ban: "Unconstitutionally vague"
After a California judge declared that the “partial-birth” abortion ban is unconstitutional, progressive groups cheered the ruling and the White House vowed to defend the law....
Presbyterian losses largest since '83: Decline "should call us to prayer and repentance"
Last year the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) suffered its biggest single-year loss in communicant members since the reunion of the “northern” and “southern” denominations in 1983....