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Everyday fortitude
We will never forget the terror of September 11, but neither will we forget the heroic efforts of the police and firefighters who rushed into the World Tra...
Choices for churches
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing. By Dennis A. Jacobsen. Fortress, 128 pp., $14.00 paperback. ...
Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn," by Dominique Janicaud et al
As a philosophy graduate student in the mid-'80s at the University of Leuven, home of the archives of phenomenology's founder Edmund Husserl, I was dazzled by such courses as "Phenomenology of Myst...
God Help Me! These People Are Driving Me Nuts, by Gregory K. Popcak and Never Call Them Jerks, by Arthur Paul Boers
Why don't people get angry with an oncologist or a surgeon who delivers a cancer diagnosis? Why don't law clients fly into fits of rage when an attorney fails to win their case?...
Pilgrim Heart, by Sarah York
I read Sarah York's Pilgrim Heart while I was on vacation two miles above sea level in the Rocky Mountains--a great place to read an elevating book....
Disparate perspectives: Time for self-examination
If the conflict in which the U.S....
Getting organized: Faith-based alliances make a difference
Aurora Solis is typical of the people involved in faith-based organizing....
The other kingdom: Luke 23:33-43
“See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves” (Luke 10:3)....
Back to normal? The prophets address the evening news: The prophets address the evening news
Anyone who has done much hospital calling knows about the awakening that often accompanies serious illness or injury....
Civilization clash? A nightmare prophesy might be fulfilled: A nightmare prophesy might be fulfilled
After leading the West to a victory over Iraq in the gulf war, President George Bush boldly promised a new world order for the 21st century. That hope received a major blow on September 11....
Colombia’s war: Drugs, oil and markets
In the name of the “war on drugs” much of Colombia is being subjected to terror in the form of massacres, assassinations, rapes and the spraying of poison from airplanes....
Where geese corrupt: Foraging for illustrations
We occasional preachers forage for illustrative material just as desperately as do those who produce weekly sermons....
Biographies of the Book
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. By Benson Bobrick. Simon & Shuster, 379 pp., $26.00. ...
The Second One Thousand Years, by Richard John Neuhaus
The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Milennium. Edited by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 126 pp., $14.00 paperback....
Confronting the Controversies, by Adam Hamilton
There was a time when I was willing to declare what good preaching is: "Every sermon must begin with a scripture text," I declared. "Every sermon must go by Calvary....
Myths in Stone, by Jeffrey F. Meyer
Like many writers and historians who have come before him, Jeffrey Meyer argues that religious metaphors have loomed large in American history, and that there are implicit religious messages in the...
Forgiveness? Now?
On September 11, a Presbyterian friend was visiting a Lakota community in South Dakota....
Terrorists’ timing
Why september 11?” That question, said Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery, needs to be raised. “Preparations for the terrorist attack had been going on for years....
Some funnies get serious: The ‘Rev. Sloan' on evil
Garry Trudeau’s long-running Doonesbury comic strip rarely spares the rod—or sharp pen—when satirizing presidents, cigarette companies and hardened conservatives....