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Star-crossed toys: Although reluctant to seize bank accounts of terrorist organizations, U.S....
Canon fire
Since the publication of his Biblical Theology in Crisis in 1970, Brevard Childs (recently retired from Yale Divinity School) has pursued ...
Prophetic mysticism
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance. By Dorothee Soelle. Fortress, 325 pp., $20...
Lives of the Saints, by Richard P. McBrien
There's somebody for everybody--an intention that cuts many ways--in this latest encyclopedic offering from eminent Notre Dame theologian and historian Richard P....
Reading religiously: The witness of a community of readers
The alarm has been sounded over the future of reading. We are rapidly becoming a culture of the image, not the word, we are told....
In a foreign place: Enemy love and realism
It’s a cliché to observe that since September 11 we are living in a different world, that everything seems different now. But it is true....
Wheat and chaff: Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12
John the Baptist’s fiery call to repentance sounds harsh when we’re in the midst of preparations for the baby Jesus. The birth of a child is usually preceded by joyful expectation....
A desert in bloom
Since I live near Lake Michigan, I take frequent walks along the lake and gaze out at the water, which stretches to the distant horizon....
Grace-full gestures: Opportunities for reconciliation
In his wonderful memoir Open Secrets, Richard Lischer describes a personal conflict that developed between Lischer and Leonard, a lay leader in the congregation....
Revenge or justice? Revenge won't work in Afghanistan: Revenge won't work in Afghanistan
It was much easier to oppose the gulf war. The situation that evoked the U.S. military response ten years ago was not personal, unless you count the loss of a plentiful oil supply as personal....
Getting religion: New connotations
As the Associated Press story had it, a Greyhound passenger lost it when the bus driver and several others on the bus asked him to douse his cigarette....
Thorn in the side
With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology. By Stanley Hauerwas. Brazos Press, 250 pp., $22.99....
Scary scenarios
GERMS: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad. Simon & Shuster, 367 pp., $27.00....
Frodo lives
J.R.R Tolkien: Author of the Century. By Tom Shippey. Houghton Mifflin, 328 pp., $26.00....
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....