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New-time religion
Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited.By Charles Taylor. Harvard University Press, 144 pp., $19.95....
Pulpit play
Discovering a Sermon: Personal Pastoral Preaching.By Robert C. Dykstra. ChalicePress, 154 pp., $18.99 paperback....
Pastors on purpose
Leadership on the Line:Staying Alive Throughthe Dangers of Leading.By Ronald A. Heifetz and MartyLinsky. Harvard Business School,252 pp., $27.50....
Open wounds
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy.By James S. Hirsch. HoughtonMifflin, 358 pp., $25.00....
Our man Jesus
The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man.By Walter Wink. Fortress,356 pp., $26.00....
Abe’s eloquence
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.By Ronald C. White Jr. Simon & Schuster, 203 pp., $24.00....
What would Jesus count? A faithfulness index: A faithfulness index
At a church staff devotional the other day, a colleague read the passage from the 25th chapter of Matthew about the separating of the sheep and the goats, and about how we minister to Jesus Christ ...
An expanded table: Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A.
The ecumenical tables in the U.S. are too small. None is large enough to encompass the full diversity of Christian life in this country....
Speaking up for Israel: Revisionists need revising
Some 25 years ago I met with three major spokesmen of the Palestine Liberation Organization in my capacity as chair of Breira, a Jewish group supporting a two-state solution for Israel/Palestine....
Who’s counting? Doing the numbers on membership: Doing the numbers on membership
Journalists covering religion regularly cite membership figures for the various religious organizations....
The infidels are us: Anatomy of a fundamentalist cause
In the wake of the terrorist fury unleashed by Osama bin Laden and his Islamic al-Qaeda organization on September 11, Western analysts have been scrambling to analyze the competing ideologies that ...
In defense of celibacy: An act of total self-giving
Every day the newspaper brings fresh evidence of the crisis in the Catholic Church, a crisis with implications far-reaching enough to be of concern to all Christians....
Fasten your seatbelts: A space chaplaincy
The American Association for the Advancement of Science sounds like a feet-on-the-ground organization. But in a recent meeting in Boston some scientists took flight, at least in imagination....
Wages of reform: Welfare policy: A six-year report
Six years after Bill Clinton signed into law a controversial bill ending “welfare as we know it,” Congress is debating how to extend or revise the welfare program....
Macro-mystery: Matthew 28:16-20
Compared to cosmologists, theologians have the advantage—and disadvantage—of revelation.
Repeat offenders: Romans 1:16-17, 3:22b-28; Matthew 7:21-29
Justification by grace through faith has been a perennial theme throughout the history of the people of God. St....
State of siege: Conflict at the Church of the Nativity
As anyone following the news knows, Palestinians and Israelis offer two entirely different accounts of the violence (and two different accounts of what has happened in the region since the emergenc...
After the assault: Report from the Jenin Camp
Jenin—the name comes from the Arabic and Hebrew words for “garden.” As Moses was leading his people across the Jordanian desert, no doubt they dreamed of a place like this—g...
Coming of age
The lyrical road comedy Y Tu Mamá También ("And Your Mother Too") suggests what one of those fraudulent the-summer-I-became-a-man movies might be like if it were made by some...