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It’s the day after the election, and I am clicking around on one of the many interactive maps of the nation available on the Internet....
Celestial navigation: We have lost the sky
It was Marshall McLuhan, I believe, who first observed that the increased speed of transportation and communication had made the world a global village. That observation has become a commonplace....
Christmas and the cross: Luke 2:22-40
Simeon offers a subtle instruction to Mary: remember the cross.
Interrupted: Luke 1:26-38; 47-55
Whether Mary was reading or spinning or planning her wedding, the annunciation came as an interruption.
The Century recommends: Classical music
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4, Mass in G minor, Six Choral Songs to Be Sung in Time of War. London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox Singers, Richard Hickox....
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This volume begins with Küng as a young theologian making his mark at Vatican II and ends with the Vatican taking away his credentials as a Catholic th...
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Since the Reagan era, a version of supply-side economics that is persuasive only to fringe economists and to right-win...
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The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated Hebrew manuscript that originated in Spain around 1350....
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This collection ranges from the merengue of Dominican superstar Reynold to the earthy Hungarian folk of Marta Sebestyen (knit with Arabic textures o...
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Martin Ritt’s 1972 adaptation of the beloved children’s novel by William H. Armstrong is one of the most powerful family films ever made....
Believe it or not
If you are, as I am, often puzzled by the landscape of contemporary religious belief and unbelief, you will regard Charles Taylor’s huge and hugely rewarding intell...
A Time for Confessing
Academic circles sometimes include a giant who publishes relatively little despite the pleading of students and colleagues....
Called for Life: Finding Meaning in Retirement
Titles with ambiguity are invitational. They encourage us to ponder possibilities....
In Constant Prayer
One day when he was nearly 40 years old, Robert Benson stumbled onto the prayer cycle known as the daily office, and since then his life has never been the sam...
Pride and Glory
A movie about a family of Irish cops—that sounds like one you’ve seen before....
"There's only diversity in the singular forms. Here we go."
My evangelical grade school tried to instill some big ideas—Creationist
talking points, "worldview formation," a vague yet fierce sense of...