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God and country
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. By Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. New York University Press, 175 pp., $22.95....
Poor sports
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. By William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin. Princeton University Press, 490 pp., $27.95....
True to life
Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx. By Heidi B. Neumark. Beacon, 275 pp., $25.00....
When theology ruled
Few pastors would dare to announce a sermon series on "theology" these days, since few of their parishioners would tolerate such an intellectual subject. However, E....
Politics and piety
God's Rule: The Politics of the World Religions. Edited by Jacob Neusner. Georgetown University Press, 281 pp., $29.95....
Shock and art
Transgressions: The Offenses of Art. By Anthony Julius. University of Chicago Press, 272 pp., $35.00....
Angel invasion
From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural. By Lynn Schofield Clark. Oxford University Press, 284 pp., $29.95....
Clowns and jokers
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth. By Joe Conason. St. Martin's, 240 pp., $24.95...
Grace before meals
The Power of God at Home: Nurturing Our Children in Love and Grace. By J. Bradley Wigger. Jossey-Bass, 195 pp., $19.95....
Liberal types
The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity 1900-1950. By Gary Dorrien. Westminster John Knox, 666 pp., $39.95....
Killer ‘saints’
The history of the American heartland sometimes appears as little more than a bloody farrago of killing which, in the God-soaked vocabulary of the perpetrators, must be understood not as murder, bu...
Start-up faith: A confirmation conundrum
At one of our church’s weekly staff meetings the youth minister said he had a problem and needed his colleagues’ advice....
Do we still need hell? We're never beyond redemption: We're never beyond redemption
A street preacher works a corner just blocks from the Christian Century office, loudly warning passersby of the wrath to come....
Believing and belonging: The shifting territory of youth ministry
Youth culture in the U.S. is being reinvented every three years, according to Robert J. McCarty. Keeping up with youth culture is like mapping territory that is constantly changing, he says. ...
Youth on the edge: A profile of American teens
The current cohort of American teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 is lonely, spiritually hungry and intensely aware of the threat of violence....
Edwards for us: The holiness of beauty and the beauty of holiness
The Puritans were earnest folk. They had little patience with those who had no depth, no deep conviction, no profound concern with what God was doing in their lives....
A stroll in Northampton: Remembering Jonathan Edwards
On October 5, Jonathan Edwards turns 300....
The state of the family: A response to Don Browning
In his critique of “Living Faithfully with Families in Transition” (June 28), a report submitted to the recent assembly of the Presby...
The state of the family: Don Browning replies
Small differences in analysis and in the use of theological sources can make for big differences in conclusions, even among friends like Homer Ashby and me, who share many of the same commitments....