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The Stranger Next Door, by Arlene Stein
Every liberal ought to read this sociological study of a successful Christian-right, local initiative in a small Oregon town....
Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste, by Frank Burch Brown
Frank Burch Brown is a writer capable of shifting his focus in the space of a few pages from the magnificence of Byzantine worship in tenth-century Constantinople to the Precious Moments Chapel out...
Economic goods: Making moral sense of the market
The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It. By Charles E. Lindblom. Yale University Press, 304 pp., $26.00....
A habit of ministry
We’ve heard the question, as have pastors around the country: Where is God in the death and devastation that struck September 11?...
Reasons of state: what is government for?
Americans are still trying to grasp what happened on September 11, and we don’t yet know how to talk about what comes next....
Homegrown extremism: preaching in daytona beach
Daytona Beach—it’s the home of NASCAR, Spring Break, Bike Week, and the self-proclaimed “most famous beach in the world.” The city has an interesting mix of natives with dee...
White bull of peace: sudan's forgotten conflict
As part of a campaign to stop one of the world’s longest wars, peace coordinator Telar Deng begins and ends peace conferences by sacrificing a white bull....
Afterlife: reflections following my mother's death
So common are visitations in reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) that I, for one, do not expect to die alone....
Guilt and complexity: The Holocaust's lessons for the church
Controversy about the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has ...
To think and act anew
We must not expect our nation’s wound to heal quickly: It is too deep and the pain is too profound. We Americans expect instant healing....
Heavenly minded
Throughout much of history, opium has been used as a narcotic to ease human suffering....
Fortress mentality
Now is the time to warn ourselves of the dangers of impregnability. True, as a country we have been violated in a most brutal way, and we’ll have to make sure that we are safe in the future....
Documenting diversity
A New Religious America. By Diana L. Eck. HarperSanFrancisco, 404 pp., $27.00....
Family, by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Lisa Sowle Cahill has given a well-reasoned face to a position within the American family debate which has been difficult to describe and even more difficult to promote....
Calvin, by Bernard Cottret. Translated by M. Wallace McDonald.
Bernard Cottret set out to replace the commonplace, static picture most people have of John Calvin as "a doctrinaire divider, attached to his own ideas to the point of fanaticism" with "a portrait ...
Fighting for Social Justice, by David Burgess
David Burgess does not go gentle into fights....
Benedict’s Dharma, edited by Patrick Henry with an afterword by David Steindl-Rast and a translation of the rule by Patrick Barry
Monastics from diverse religious traditions the world over face similar opportunities, challenges and frustrations....
After September 11: Thinking as Christians
In the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11, thousands of our fellow citizens were buried under the rubble. The rest of us have been buried under the rubble of words that followed....
What does God intend? In an unimaginable crisis: In an unimaginable crisis
We want a word from God....