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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.
Beautiful theology
Amy Plantinga Pauw, who teaches theology at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, has written a sophisticated but quite accessible book about Jonathan Edwards's surprisingly rich musings on the Christi...
Why Angels Fall, by Victoria Clark
Victoria Clark takes her readers not so much on a geographical trek as on a journey from the past to the present, with stopovers in several European countries in which Orthodoxy is the dominan...
God Moments, by Jeremy Langford
Theology-on-Tap" is a young-adult ministry that originated in the Archdiocese of Chicago over 20 years ago....
Dime-store redemption
Denzel Washington makes his directorial debut in Antwone Fisher and also plays a navy psychiatrist who becomes emotionally involved in the struggles of a young patient....
Class notes: A gift that keeps on giving
Those of us who have had some experience of theological education in a sense live out of that experience for the rest of our lives. Each experience is unique, of course....
Tree mugger: Bush has quietly undercut environmental policy
White House senior political adviser Karl Rove says that Theodore Roosevelt would be “standing up and applauding” President George Bush’s environmental policies. Let’s check the record on that....
A tree grows in Haiti: Harvesting 15 years of mission work
"Haiti is a nation of contrasts,” says Rodney Babe, who meets our church’s team of mission workers at the airport. We soon understand what he means....
Is it worth it? The value of a theological education
Daniel Aleshire has been executive director of the Association of Theological Schools since 1998....
Ten things I didn’t learn in seminary: Politics of the pastorate
1. Church members want pastors to succeed. Yes, there will always be resistance to change, and we pastors tend to fall into thinking that the church and its members are against us....
Foolish prayer: “Pray as you can, not as you can’t”
Six years before he died, American philosopher William James filled out a questionnaire about religious experience....