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Left out: Not everyone is prospering
A rising economic tide lifts everybody’s financial boat. Well, almost everybody’s....
At the Parliament of Religions: Notes from Cape Town
When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was asked in 1993 why he was attending a “parliament of the world’s religions,” he answered that we are told to “welcome strangers,” that many things are happening in...
Teaching theology in context: Learning together
In the fall of 1998 Candler School of Theology made a serious wager concerning its future: it launched a comprehensive new program in contextual education....
Formed for ministry: A program in spiritual formation: Learning and praying
"I want my seminary experience to form me as a person of prayer.” We had never heard a student state this desire so eloquently and succinctly....
But I am not Abraham
For some time now I have been both attracted to and troubled by the story of Abraham’s journey to present his son Isaac as a burnt offering in the land of Moriah....
Crime data
Every year I wait for the January issue of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research....
Twice healed: 2 Corinthians 1:18-22; Mark 2:1-12
When the congregation I serve initiated a prayer chain several years ago, its participants were amazed at the response: healing intercessions requested for all manner of illnesses and ailments—phys...
Education for what mission?
Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models, by Robert Banks...
Saint Augustine, by Garry Wills
Peter Brown is credited with discovering Augustine the old man. Gary Wills should be recognized for discovering Augustine the young man....
Clergy Women, by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Adair T. Lummis and Patricia M. Y. Chang
During nearly 40 years of full-time ministry, I have experienced many of the changes and "uphill" journeys explored in this well-researched, carefully organized book....
The Cousins' War, by Kevin Phillips
The 20th century has ended much as it began, with ethnic hostilities in the Balkans, sectarian violence in China, a change of power in South Africa, "reform" in Russia and economic power in the han...
Swaggart, by Ann Rowe Seaman
They are as American as the Fourth of July, these sensationalist preachers who nowadays crowd the TV screen and in earlier days brought thousands into camp meetings....
At the Corner of East and Now, by Frederica Mathewes-Green
This book journeys into what, for many Western readers, are the unchartered waters of Eastern Orthodoxy. Frederica Mathewes-Green writes as an active lay person and wife of an Orthodox priest....
Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism, edited by Edith Blumhofer, Russell Spittler and Grant Wacker
The 20th century may be recorded as the ecumenical century, but it certainly will be noted as the century of the Pentecostal renewal, both as a new church phenomenon and as a charismatic impulse wi...
Film picks of ’99
Bringing Out the Dead, director Martin Scorcese’s frenetic examination of three days in the life of a paramedic, is easily my choice for the best film of 1999....
The Christian century: Take two: A living tradition the century mark
Are you going to change the name of the magazine in the year 2000? That’s a question we’ve heard often in recent months....
The origins of the Christian Century, 1884-1914: A climate of optimism
The Christian Century emerged from rather humble origins....
Modern and postmodern forms of unbelief: Gods Funeral.ByA. N. Wilson. Norton, 402 pp., $27.95.
God’s Funeral, by A. N. Wilson...
Jesus and history, the believer and the historian: TheElusive Messiah:A Philosophical Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus.By Raymond Martin. Westview, 236 pp., $25.00.
The Elusive Messiah: A Philosophical Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus, by Raymond Martin...