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Readers have sent me some items with which I cannot part and that I would like to share with you. To wit:...

School: The Story of American Public Education. Produced by Sarah Mondale and Sarah Patton. Public Broadcasting System. ...

A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction. By Ron Hansen. HarperCollins, 267 pp., $25.00....

Marva Dawn's book is sum­med up by its title....

The word courtship and the idea of it—a prescribed process of getting to know someone in preparation for marriage—is virtually archaic....

At last the biggest fish in the Balkan pond—former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic—has been snagged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)....

In this new millennium, globalization and pluralism are preoccupying themes....

At a recent Rose Garden ceremony, former President Jimmy Carter presented President George W. Bush with the final report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform....

A Christian who leads a Bible study for his teammates as well as pregame prayers with the opposing team, Charlie Ward of the New York Knicks recently raised hackles with his comments about Jews pri...

For most pastors, the question of how the church should relate to the state and to the society and culture around it arises in a very mundane way—in the form of a phone call asking you to del...

Although ministers like to think of themselves as members of the professional middle class, they are hanging on to that status by their fingernails....

A few months ago I gave a lecture at a small Midwestern college....

Four powerful women have been on my mind lately, and I’ll drop three of their names here: the late writer Eudora Welty, into whose cart mine once bumped in a Mississippi supermarket; the late...

In the fragility of goodness, author Martha Nussbaum writes, “The peculiar beauty of human excellence just is its vulnerability.” Goodness is fragile and its vulnerability is part of its b...

Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry. By Michael Prior: Routledge, 291 pp., $75.00....

Whenever one thinks of John Updike's work, one thinks instinctively of its obsession with sex....

The main story in a recent issue of the newspaper that serves my small town was "Nevins Retires After Decades of Parts Service." Nevins sold auto parts for 40 years....

Fleming Rutledge's second collection of sermons (her first, The Bible and the New York Times, appeared in 1998) is presented as a thoughtful and sustained response to the plea expressed in...

Tourists mean traveling dollars looking to be spent.  And those dollars (pounds, marks, lire) create an expanding market for aircraft, service jobs and entertainment workers, and the prospect ...

Media literacy is an issue picking up steam in the church, as I discovered when I found myself attending two conferences on the subject last year....