Features
Faith, hope and ecology: A Christian environmentalism
The only possible dialog is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds. This is tantamount to saying that the world of today needs Christians who remain Christians. —Albert Camus
Churchgoers from elsewhere: Surveys: ‘UUism' unique
Before the American Unitarian Association merged with the Universalist Church of America in 1961, the former group ran an ad campaign suggesting, “I was a Unitarian all along and never knew it.” The Unitarian Universalist Association could revive such a slogan today in view of recent surveys. Two polls indicate that only 10 percent of its members were born and raised in UU traditions.
Books
Canon fire
Since the publication of his Biblical Theology in Crisis in 1970, Brevard Childs (recently retired from Yale Divinity School) has pursued ...
Prophetic mysticism
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance. By Dorothee Soelle. Fortress, 325 pp., $20...
Lives of the Saints, by Richard P. McBrien
There's somebody for everybody--an intention that cuts many ways--in this latest encyclopedic offering from eminent Notre Dame theologian and historian Richard P....
Departments
Oil dependents: Better to sacrifice oil than blood
The U.S.’s approach to the Middle East frequently seems less policy than fated inevitability. The U.S....
Advent mysteries: The hard job of discernment
It’s going to be a long Advent. We stepped into the deep violet darkness and have been on the alert ever since, not only for the coming of our Savior, but also for further assaults from our largely unseen enemies....
Homo ludens: "Poised between gaiety and gravity"
Prufrockian is a term that entered the vocabulary after the 1917 publication of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J....