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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....
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....