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Touring Pentecostalism
Heaven Below: Earthly Pentecostals and American Culture. By Grant Wacker. Harvard University Press, 364 pp., $35.00....
Families disrupted
Tolstoy's dictum that "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is played out in each of these fine novels....
Falwell and followers
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. By Susan Friend Harding. Princeton University Press, 352 pp., $50.00; paperback, $18.95....
The power of one God
One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism. By Rodney Stark. Princeton University, 338 pp., $24.95....
Nonconforming
On the Background to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish and Brethren. By Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 362 pp., $29.95....
Down to earth
The New Agarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life. Edited by Eric T. Freyfogle. Island Press, 256 pp., $40.00; paperback, $18.00....
Idea-dropping
Most of Richard Linklater's previous films, such as Dazed and Confused, Slacker and Before Sunrise, have enjoyed great success by holding up the mirror to 20-somethings' ...
Infections and Inequalities, by Paul Farmer
What causes disease? Is it germs? Or people? This book about the global plagues of AIDS and tuberculosis says that, in the end, people do....
Payout package: Tax breaks in a time of crisis
The U.S. Post Office says it will need $2.5 billion for additional security in response to the biological war being waged against Americans through the mail system....
The dead and gone: Rituals of mourning
Not only did they die, they disappeared. There’s the terrible fact becoming all too clear....
No can do: Faith at work
Some time between World War II and the Second Vatican Council a small-town church in northeastern Vermont was destroyed by fire....
Terrorism and 'just war'; an old tradition, new challenges: Authority and intention
The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or “just” use of military force—legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as th...
Terrorism and 'just war'; an old tradition, new challenges: Seeking justice
The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or “just” use of military force—legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as th...
Terrorism and 'just war'; an old tradition, new challenges: Hearts and minds
The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or “just” use of military force—legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as th...
Terrorism and 'just war'; an old tradition, new challenges: Moral challenges
The mainstream of Christian ethics has contended that there can be a legitimate or “just” use of military force—legitimacy being determined by a variety of factors, such as th...
Reference point: "With malice toward none; with charity for all"
My brother was the first to call....
Evil and evildoers: No one is beyond the pale of redemption
Nothing is gained and much is lost if we describe the terrorists as evil,” a friend of mine argued recently. I disagree. Our difference can be traced back to a division in moral philosophy....
Times of trial: We must suffer to understand hope
Viking Penguin Lives, a series of biographies, lists Martin Marty on Martin Luther among its forthcoming titles (2003)....
Onward, Christian praise teams: Reinventing the choir
I’ve seen a lot of religious improvements come and go. I remember the “last day” emphasis in teen camp sermons....