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Wahid down: Crisis in Indonesia
"Do we really need these leaders?” a recent article in the Jakarta Post asked, referring to Indonesia’s four top figures: Abdurrahman Wahid, the president; Megawati Sukarnoputr...
Truth claims: The future of postliberal theology
Postliberal theology has affirmed the decisive significance and the integrity of the biblical narrative. But in what way do postliberals affirm the truth of Christianity?...
Generation GK: Give Chestern to your friends of the MTV generation
No doubt it is a peculiar vantage point from which to survey the religious habits of the current generation, but my vantage point is that of a religion teacher at a liberal arts college....
Scripture-esque: Wedding texts
Michael Lerich ought to be a hero to church musicians and pastors, most of whom abhor the music chosen by bridal couples for church weddings. “Trust us,” says Lerich....
Sabbath-keeping: Work is not finished until it is enjoyed in rest
My instructor in Sabbath-keeping was not a professor or a spiritual director, but a foreman at the East Chicago Inland Steel plant named Mike Paddock....
Thanks, but no thanks: Luke 12:13-21
It was a sad day in the history of the church when Paul’s statement about being “all things to all men” first came to be seen not as a call to diversity but as a claim of versatility. St....
Search for love
Many critics say that A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is marred by a clash between the sensibilities of its two directors, the late Stanley Kubrick, who developed the concept, and Steven Spi...
Champion churches?
Excellent Protestant Congregations: The Guide to Best Places and Practices. By Paul Wilkes. Westminster John Know, 258 pp., $18.95....
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention, edited by James F. Keenan
When I mentioned this book to HIV activists, public health officials and fellow Protestant clergy, all were quick to offer a smart remark, dismissing the likelihood that Roman Catholics could have ...
Essential Writings, by Thich Nhat Hanh
This is a helpful and elegant introduction to the teachings of one of today's best-known Buddhist leaders....
Presbyterian turnabout: Delegates urge gay ordination
Presbyterian moderator Jack Rogers has an unenviable task over the next 12 months....
Navy mom: Living with the military
Like many Americans, my family will celebrate July 4 by sharing a picnic with friends....
Soldiering: Can Christians serve in the armed forces?
When Martin Luther asked “Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved,” he was struggling to find a theologically defensible balance between two competing demands....
Project living: The rise and fall of public housing
Social policy is inscribed on the landscape. And perhaps the most telling such inscription in U.S. cities is the public housing project, an inscription that is currently being erased....
Defining moments
In Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose describes the pivotal day when Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their tiny band of explorers sent their large keel boat back down the river to St....
Living into our histories
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.” So Anne Tyler begins her latest novel, Back When We Were Grownups....
Lessons in loss
On april 19,1995, Julie Marie Welch died in the Oklahoma City bombing at the age of 23. Her father, Bud Welch, remembers earlier discussions with Julie about the death penalty....
A little bit awed
Frank Slaughter, M.D., was a pretty good, which means not really bad, novelist who often dealt with biblical themes....