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When Science Meets Religion, by Ian Barbour; Faith, Science, and Understanding, by John Polkinghorne; and Can A Darwinian Be a Christian?, by Michael Ruse
Ian Barbour finds four major options in the current literature on science and religion: conflict, independence, dialogue and integration....
The Next Religious Establishment, by Eldon J. Eisenach
Is the United States still "a nation with the soul of a church," as Sidney Mead once insisted? Are we still united by what Robert Bellah identified as a "civil religion"?...
Our Vietnam, by A. J. Langguth
President Clinton's trip to Hanoi this past November was the first state visit by a U.S. president to an independent and reunified Vietnam....
Between Church and State, by James W. Fraser
The often uninformed and partisan climate of the current dialogue about religion and public education makes this book, which provides a sane historical context for the debate, especially valuable....
Bad Pastors, edited by Anson Shupe, William A. Stacey and Susan E. Darnell.
Money, power, sex--there are so many ways a pastor can go wrong. What defines a "bad" pastor? How should we respond when encountering one?...
What Happens in Holy Communion?, by Michael Welker
Despite Jesus's petition "that they may be one," all Christians still cannot eat and drink together at the Lord's Supper....
Academic Freedom and Christian Scholarship, by Anthony J. Diekema
Anyone who has been on a faculty search committee knows how hard it is to evaluate candidates....
Shrubs and scrubs: Sunday, February 11 Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26
I do not have a green thumb. I don’t speak to my plants. Instead I make them grab their throats, gasping for water, before I recognize their parched condition. Then I drench and almost drown them....
Still in poor health
It seemed at times during last fall’s presidential election that the most crucial issue facing the nation was the price of prescription drugs for senior citizens....
Down to business: Social entrepreneurs
Imagine a pastor preaching on the rebuilding of the city. Her text is Jeremiah 32. The city of Jerusalem has fallen apart, she tells her congregation, and its citizens have been taken into exile....
Simpsons have soul: TV's most religious family?
The enormous popularity of The Simpsons, now in its 12th television season, suggests that religious people have a sense of humor—contrary to the usual wisdom in Hollywood....
Going digital: Learning from Gutenberg
The rise of the Internet’s World Wide Web in the mid-1990s launched an unlikely hero into the media spotlight: Johann Gutenberg, the 15th-century inventor of movable printing type and technol...
Beside the weary road
Even for those faithful souls for whom Christmas begins on December 25 and continues for 12 days thereafter, the season is over....
Top ten films
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are off-beat filmmakers, but their latest movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, is the best film released in 2000....
Errors galore
Moons have passed since I’ve passed on to you some of the little items readers send me....
Sunday, February 18 (Genesis 45:3-11,15; Luke 6:27-38)
Keeping score and getting even—that’s what enemies do.
Shrubs and scrubs: Sunday, February 11 Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20; Luke 6:17-26
I do not have a green thumb. I don’t speak to my plants. Instead I make them grab their throats, gasping for water, before I recognize their parched condition. Then I drench and almost drown them....
Drug world
Steven Soderbergh's Traffic places international drug trade in the broadest possible context, taking viewers into the lives of various people touched by cocaine trafficking....
Natural law revisited
Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics, by Jean Porter...
That demon love
Affection is the most instinctive, in that sense the most animal, of the loves; its jealousy is proportionately fierce....