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CC recommends: Classical music
Schumann and Schubert: Piano Quintets. The Atlantis Ensemble. Musica Omnia, $13.99....
Performing scripture: Nicholas Lash on the tasks of theology
Nicholas Lash, professor at Cambridge University, has been one of the most influential theologians in the English-speaking world for the past generation....
Grief work: After a child dies
When my wife and I see news reports about the deaths of young people, as we did after the grisly slaughter at Virginia Tech last April, we inevitably think back to June 1999, when we lost our son, ...
Political time-out: A year of elected silence
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Purse race: Before the bling bubble bursts
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Risk and fulfillment: Isaiah 63:7-9; Psalm 148; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23
All of the Spirit’s labor—the pruning of our imagination, the background work on our expectations—comes to fruition on Christmas Day, when we are brought into the Presence....
Reading the signs: Isaiah 7:10-16; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-25
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel” (Matthew 1:23)....
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One of Moltmann’s great strengths as a theologian is that he wasn’t brought up in the church....
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This 1982 drama directed by Alan Parker is one of the great films of its decade—complex, adult, irresolvable, with a screenplay by Bo Goldman that poeticizes its c...
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Paul McCartney’s silly, slight “Wonderful Christmastime” gets a much-needed, taut makeover. There is a dreamy opening instrumental, “The Gift of St. Cecilia....
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Political forces are pressing British National Fisheries scientist Alfred Jones into helping a wealthy Yemeni sheikh introduce salmon fishing to his h...
Pastor to presidents
In this captivating narrative, Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, veteran reporters for Time magazine, offer d...
Bonhoeffer and King
In his comparative study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr., Deotis Robert presents striking parallels in the biograph...
Wartime truths
It takes a long while to assimilate Brian De Palma’s Iraq war film. It’s not so much that Redacted is raw and assaultive. It’s that the style isn’t like anything you’ve ever seen....