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Signs of the times
Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, by Albert Borgmann...
Wild and woolly
Fits, Trances & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James, by Ann Taves...
The vital center
The Emphatic Christian Center: Reforming American Political Practice, by Kyle A. Pasewark and Garrett E. Paul...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Eberhard Bethge, edited by Victoria J. Barnett
The new English translation of Bethge's 1970 biography, skillfully rendered by Barnett, includes all corrections and revisions of earlier editions....
Christian America?, by Christian Smith
Armed with data from surveys and interviews, Smith skewers the notion that all conservative evangelicals are deeply uncomfortable with American pluralism and eager to impose a fundamentalist Christ...
Architecture for the Gods, by Michael J. Crosbie
Crosbie has no particular thesis about what architecture is fit for the gods....
Life without labels: Misleading terms
The words liberal and conservative, Garry Wills once observed, are the most misleading terms in the world....
Cuban-American dialogues: Letter from Miami
The camera panned away from a garbage fire in the middle of the street and followed the young men who had set it. The men were calling to a nearby band of demonstrators....
Abiding love: John 15:1-17; 1 John 5:1-6
I am not an avid gardener. I like the outdoors but would rather hike or bicycle in it than work in it....
AIDS in South Africa: Why the churches matter: A "realistic" sexual morality
South Africa has the world’s second largest AIDS epidemic (in gross numbers). Its neighbor, Zimbabwe, ranks first....
Sub-Saharan scourge: sidebar
The aids epidemic is so widespread in some countries that U.S....
Compassionate conspiracy: AIDS action in Namibia: The church has the infrastructure
When Sister Raphaela Händler arrived in Namibia in 1996 to coordinate the country’s Roman Catholic hospitals and health-care clinics, she realized that AIDS was a “time bomb” about to burst....
Giving life to meaning: Women leaders write their memoirs
Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, by Marian Wright Not Till I Have Done: A Personal Testimony, by Elizabeth Achtemeier...
Letter bombs
Several years ago Carly Simon recorded a CD titled “Letters Never Sent.” The songs reflect a collection of letters she wrote over the years but never sent to the intended recipients....
On the altar
Missionaries’ faith—the kind of faith that inspired and impelled men and women to take the gospel into all the world—seems to lie beyond poet Oliver Reynolds’s ken....
Jesus scenarios
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, by Paula Fredriksen...