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No comparison: Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-11
We know things only insofar as we can describe their likeness.
Called to order: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 111; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
It’s been said that the lessons of history are never clear, and when they are they’re usually wrong.
Repair zone
Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World. By Elizabeth V. Speldman. Beacon, 165 pp., $24.00....
The Blindfold's Eyes, by Dianna Ortiz, with Patricia Davis
Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline nun and missionary to Guatemala, tells the story of her abduction, rape and torture by security forces and of her subsequent decade of work to docume...
The Reenchantment of Nature, by Alister McGrath
Alister McGrath, professor of historical theology at Oxford, began his professional career in the natural sciences (molecular biophysics)....
Out of the Flames, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Michael Servetus's Restitutio Christianismi is quite a book....
Warsaw horror
Roman Polanski's The Pianist has been hailed as the filmmaker's long-awaited return to the glorious 1960s and '70s, when he made such films as Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby ...
Who cares? The sin of sloth: The sin of sloth
At the Christian Century lecture in September, about 200 people gathered for a festive evening to meet author Kathleen Norris. Her topic that evening was not exactly festive, however....
Make the case: The evidence against Saddam Hussein
The evidence that Saddam Hussein has an aggressive weapons program can be found in the reports made by United Nations arms inspectors and by Iraq itself....
Embracing theology: Miroslav Volf spans conflicting worlds
When I talked to Yale theologian Miroslav Volf last summer, he was being considered as possible dean of Harvard Divinity School....
Luminous mysteries: The ministry and teachings of Christ on Earth
Last fall on a weekend trip to Manhattan, I noticed an unusual addition to the art galleries listed in the Times. The gallery was in the apse of the Cathedral of St....
Grunge: Bad news on the fashion front
Bad news has hit the fashion front. No successors to designers like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren are on the horizon....
Call me: 1 Samuel 3:1-10; John 1:43-51; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
If you’re Eli, you’re not sleeping that well when the boy comes trotting in to disturb you with his nonsense.
Mutant ministry: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Psalm 62:5-12
Jonah is prophetic minimalism gone amok.
Plain old sloth: A case of soul-weariness
I’ve had plenty of chances to laugh at myself in the last year....
Let’s argue
Despite the size and historic importance of mainline churches, say sociologists Robert W...
Which ecumenism?
Christians seek the unity for which Christ prayed by looking together to the "faith of the church through the ages." This gospel truth embodied in the scripture and Christian history is what is mea...
Divine Hiddenness, by Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser
If God exists, then why hasn't he made his existence sufficiently clear? The philosopher J. L....
Heart and Head, by Dwight N. Hopkins
Black theology has matured and assumed greater clarity and analytical depth since its origins in the 1960s. Dwight N....