Articles by David Hoekema

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Religious rights

Christians and Muslims in Kenya

Jun 15, 2010 by David Hoekema

There is an intersection in central Nairobi known as “five churches corner” (one of the buildings is actually a synagogue). But then nearly every urban intersection in Kenya features a church or two.

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Listening to Messiaen

Recommended recordings
Dec 30, 2008 by David Hoekema
Where might a new listener begin? On several recordings still in the catalog the composer himself performs or supervises a performance, including a remarkable DVD combining his own organ improvisations with a performance of the Quartet for the End of Time (Image Entertainment 6305394776).
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Visions of amen

Olivier Messiaen's transcendent music
Dec 30, 2008 by David Hoekema
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.”
—Olivier Messiaen
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Pomp and circumstance

Bush as commencement speaker
May 17, 2005 by David Hoekema
It was a blustery day in late April when a colleague poked his head into my office and asked, “Have you heard the news? Nicholas Wolterstorff has been replaced as commencement speaker. George Bush is coming instead.”
Books

Doling out dollars

Feb 22, 2003 by David Hoekema

Bush at War. By Bob Woodward. Simon & Shuster, 378 pp., $28.00.

Books

The Second One Thousand Years, by Richard John Neuhaus

Nov 07, 2001 reviewed by David Hoekema

The Second One Thousand Years: Ten People Who Defined a Milennium. Edited by Richard John Neuhaus. Eerdmans, 126 pp., $14.00 paperback.

Books

Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste, by Frank Burch Brown

Oct 17, 2001 reviewed by David Hoekema

Frank Burch Brown is a writer capable of shifting his focus in the space of a few pages from the magnificence of Byzantine worship in tenth-century Constantinople to the Precious Moments Chapel outside Branson, Missouri, which opened to visitors 1,002 years later.

Books

Religion unsegregated

Jan 03, 2001 by David Hoekema

Education, Religion and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation about Religion's Role in Our Shared Life, by Martin E. Marty with Jonathan Moore