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The Changing Face of Health Care, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships, edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D. Orr and Judith Allen Shelly
Edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D....
Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays, by Barrington Moore Jr.
By Barrington Moore Jr., Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays. (Cornell University Press, 240 pp.)...
Limits of politics
When the man who coined the term Moral Majority decides that the majority is gone and that the culture war is lost, people pay attention....
Drop-out Christianity: The religious right's sectarian future?
Is the religious right becoming sectarian? That was the question I found myself asking after Paul Weyrich, one of the founding fathers of the Moral Majority, recently called on Christians to "drop ...
Health and wholeness: Granger Westberg
In the early 1960s Granger Westberg gave a sermon on grief at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago....
Table grace: Returning to church
By Nora Gallagher, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith. (Knopf, 234 pp.)...
Marsha’s tears: An orphan of the church
Why are people ripping "For Those Tears I Died" out of songbooks and hymnals? It's one of the most popular Christian folk songs to come out of the '60s. It's been translated into 12 languages....
A matter of Christology
I began teaching the graduate class on the early church's views of Christ with ambivalent feelings....
Bodily ambivalence
By Teresea M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity. (Fortress, 298 pp.)...
Dementions of faith
Among the church bulletin misprints you readers have sent us recently was one from a church in Livonia, Michigan, which had this "Question for Godparents": "Do you promise to support and encourage ...
We have seen the Lord (John 20:1-18)
"Were you there?" asks the song. No, no one was.
Shopping for Faith, by Richard Cimino and Don Lattin.
By Richard Cimino and Don Lattin, Shopping for Faith. (Jossey-Bass, 224 pp.)...
The Living Wage, by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce
By Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce, The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy. (New Press, 244 pp.)...
Globalization and Its Discontents, by Saskia Sassen
By Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. (New Press, 288 pp.)...
Searching for connections
When Sue Miller's latest novel opens, Jo and Daniel Becker are enjoying a leisurely afternoon on a lake. He is fishing and she is resting, half asleep, in the bow of the boat....
Shackling a samaritan
Frank Almonte is a good man, an upright man, a man of peace. He gives of himself. He has, for example, built hospitals....
Judging Clinton: The religious debate
Do christian leaders have anything distinctive to say--or avoid saying--about the scandal in the White House and the impeachment of Bill Clinton?...
Persuasion and discernment: The gifts of leadership
By Erwin C. Hargrove, The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature. (University Press of Kansas, 240 pp.)...
Putting on new clothes
Hans Christian Andersen tells about an emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them....