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Needy pastors: Behind authoritarian leadership
"You know, Mom, the trouble with our new pastor is that he needs us to love him so much that we can’t see God anymore.” This was the assessment of a 13-year-old boy talking with his mother about th...
Mighty fall: Corporate collapse
The Wall Street Journal is now urgent reading for preachers, since its daily stories give evidence that Augustine and Calvin were right....
Jesus' final exam: Matthew 22:34-46
Jesus' simple summary of the law is actually complex.
A whiff of Armageddon: The Bush team's obsession
Barring a miracle or the sudden discovery of a moral backbone in Congress, President Bush will get his mandate to attack Iraq. Although the U.S....
Before the shooting starts: A fabricated case?
As I have listened to the discussions about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, some disturbing questions have arisen....
Good works
Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation. By John Witte Jr. Cambridge University Press, 337 pp., $65.00; paperback, $23.00....
Poisoned piety
When Religion Becomes Evil. By Charles Kimball. HarperSanFrancisco, 240 pp., $21.95....
It’s complicated
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. By Mark C. Taylor. University of Chicago Press, 340 pp., $32.00....
Preacher talk
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present. Edited by Richard Lischer. Eerdmans, 496 pp., $29.00. ...
Minding the faith
How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind. By Richard T. Hughes. Eerdmans, 172 pp., $18.00....
Inequality, U.S.A.
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich. By Kevin Phillips. Broadway, 473 pp., $29.95....
Jesus: The only way?
Introducing Theologies of Religions. By Paul F. Knitter. Orbis, 256 pp., $25.00 paperback....
Cyber caution
Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age. By Quentin Schultze. Baker Academic, 256 pp., $24.99....
Ode to ministry
Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry. By William H. Willimon. Abingdon, 386 pp., $25.00 paperback....
Dual citizens
In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension. By Jay P. Dolan. Oxford University Press, 336 pp., $28.00....
Born-again bio
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life. By Lauren F. Winner. Algonquin Books, 305 pp., $23.95....
Whitewash: Revelation 7:9-17
I was in Cuba this summer on a mission trip, when our host pastor, Héctor Méndez, approached me, his face grave and drawn. “They have attacked a Presbyterian hospital and school in Pakistan,” he said, “and people have been killed.”
Cutting up the neighborhood
Let me begin by saying that, yes, I had a big, fat Greek wedding. It was performed in the shadow of the dome of the church where my grandfather had once been priest....