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Let them eat oil: State robbery inAngola
On the flight from Johannesburg to Luanda, Angola, the airplane is packed. Half the passengers are oil workers returning for another four- or five-week stint on the wells off the coast....
Reel faith: Can Hollywood teach and inspire?
On the five Saturday nights before the 2003 Academy Awards show on March 23, a young adult group at a large church in Pasadena, California, has been discussing the five Oscar nominees for best pict...
Lost in God: What can we learn from mystics?
To think that that mystics are engaged in a series of private, transcendent encounters with God betrays a superficial understanding, says Bernard McGinn....
Missing ingredient: Why spirituality needs Jesus
The seething energies of spirituality are evident everywhere. That is good....
Can we be good without God? A central question of any moral crisis: A central question of any moral crisis
Some have suggested that recent scandals in the world of business, politics and the academy are practical consequences of a worldview that has pushed God out....
Bible disposal: Burning the book
Subscriber Sue R. Wilcox of Denver asked this columnist: “What do you do respectfully with old worn-out Bibles?” I respect her respect for the Bible and sympathize with her problem....
Jesus the priest: Hebrews 5:5-10
The Epistle to the Hebrews joins the Revelation to John as the literature most intimidating to readers of the New Testament. With the Revelation the reader must endure its terrible splendor; with Hebrews the reader must listen intently to the tightly woven arguments in what the writer calls a sermon.
From God, to God (Ephesians 2:1-10)
The writer of Ephesians interprets what is happening to a person entering the Christian life.
Wobegon poets: A prairie poem companion
Garrison Keillor’s latest book is a collection of poems selected from the ones he has read on his daily five-minute show “The Writer’s Almanac,” <...
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...