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Cover-ups: Psalm 85
Blaise Pascal evokes a sense of existential dread in this famous line: "The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me." In his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, W....
Too much irony
For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today, by Jedediah PurdySoul of a Citzen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, by Paul Rogat Loeb...
Listening to the text
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, by Robert Alter...
Suffering and doctrine
Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale...
Institutional ties
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities, by Robert Wuthnow...
The new orthodoxy?
Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward...
An assault and a healing
Working with Available Light: A Family's World after Violence, by Jamie Kalven...
Resistance and reconstruction
The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, edited by Christopher Rowland...
Siding with the Arians
When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome, by Richard E. Rubenstein...
Israel’s covenant
O Jerusalem! The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant, by Marc H. Ellis...
Rare dialogue: Falwell's gesture
Jerry Falwell loves making grand gestures and startling statements....
The National Council of Churches: Is there life after 50? Dark shadows on an anniversary week
This month the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A....
Ecumenical negotiator
At the end of the year Joan Brown Campbell will conclude her nine-year tenure at the helm of the National Council of Churches....
Reconciled in the end
As the end of the millennium approaches, many Christians are preoccupied with questions that concern the end of the world....
Bow-tied liberal Protestant?
During the decades that I've been writing this column I've had two self-imposed rules: Never engage in literary feuds, since they are odious and boring; and never defend yourself, here or in a lett...