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Lift High the Cross, by Ann Burlein
Ann Burlein opens her book by quoting Virgil Griffin, Wizard of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan....
Mathematics in a Postmodern Age, edited by Russell W. Howell and W. James Bradley
For over 2000 years philosophers (and others) have cited mathematics as one of the few areas, if not the only one, where mortals could be certain of their knowledge....
Ireland’s Holy Wars, by Marcus Tanner
Like Ireland's religious history itself, books about religion in Ireland provoke controversy....
Masterful melodrama
Pedro Almodovar, the one-time enfant terrible of the Spanish cinema, has matured into one of the most sublime voices on the international film scene, and in the process has become a great ...
Introducing Womanist Theology & The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology
I am a white, middle-class woman of European descent--Portuguese and Italian--who was raised in the Catholic Church. I have a Ph.D....
National interests: Moral strength
What kind of country are we, and what kind of country do we wish to be? Robert Bellah has asked that question many times and in many ways over the years....
Growing pains: Bush, God and Iraq
To hear President Bush speak of late, you might think he was mounting a pulpit, not a podium. With war on the horizon, the Providence of God is especially on his mind....
Clean air for sale: Investing in the environment
Can you put a price on the value of forests or wetlands? Adam Davis thinks you can, and that doing so will help save precious ecosystems....
Yugo going and gone: The end of aBalkan experiment
As I was driving home from the office on February 4 I heard the announcement from Belgrade: the parliament formally voted to end the Republic of Yugoslavia and establish instead the state (or state...
Power play: The new 'National Security Strategy'
The Bush administration’s grand design for foreign policy, spelled out last September in a document titled “The National Security Strategy,” declares that the U.S....
Axis of one: The 'unipolarist' agenda
Many critics of the U.S. plans for going to war in Iraq point to oil as a motive. If that is true, it is worrisome indeed....
Never-ending story: God's plot
As a preacher and teacher, I make my living telling stories....
Missing link: The first casuality of war
Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bush have used September 11 to push this country into war....
Name that park: The attachment-of-the-year
Comiskey Park in Chicago is being renamed U.S. Cellular Field. Announcement of this change vied for newspaper space with news of the Shuttle Challenger disaster....
Lenten roadmap: Romans 4:13-25
We are reading Romans 4 with the eyes of believers on a Lenten journey. There is a time for debate over law and gospel, works and grace—but not now.
Righteous empire: Imperialism, American-style
While “American imperialism” has been a catchphrase on the left for a long time, people on other parts of the political spectrum are only now beginning to accept the idea that we have e...
Life-giving law: Psalm 19
Notice the size of this psalm: it moves from the revelation of God in the heavens to the revelation of God in scripture to the mysterious working of God’s word in the believer.
Life-giving law: Psalm 19
Notice the size of this psalm: it moves from the revelation of God in the heavens to the revelation of God in scripture to the mysterious working of God’s word in the believer.