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Mark Toulouse
Mark Toulouse is professor of the history of Christianity at Emmanuel College in Toronto. He was formerly dean and professor of church history at Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School.
Poor sports
Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. By William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin. Princeton University Press, 490 pp., $27.95....
Feminist gains: The Century and women
In the late 1980s, Barbara Brown Zikmund lamented the failure of churches prior to the 1960s to understand and help working women, women who had first moved into the workplace during World War II....
Days of protest: The Century and the war in Vietnam
Part of the fabric of public life in America during the post–World War II years, perhaps the cross-stitch that held the symbolic boundaries in place, was anticommunism....
Indirect action: The Century and civil rights
During the early 1950s, the Century’s editors could hardly be classified as strategists in the war for civil rights, but they tried their hand at analysis and expressed sympathetic support...
The 'unnecessary necessity' The Century in World War II: The Century in World War II
At first the editors of the Century, like most others who viewed the situation from afar, failed to appreciate the threat posed by the rise of the Nazi party in Germany....
Socializing capitalism: The Century during the Great Depression
In the decade following World War I, Americans confronted a rapidly changing cultural context....
Progress and 'relapse' The Century and World War I: The Century and World War I
Before the outbreak of World War I, the Century, not unlike many other American journals, regularly expressed an idealistic and basically isolationist position when considering America’s r...
The origins of the Christian Century, 1884-1914: A climate of optimism
The Christian Century emerged from rather humble origins....
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