Our staff's Christmas picks

Features in the December 7, 2016 issue

Harriet and the Promised Land: Birth 1822, by Jacob Lawrence © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artist Rights Society, NY

Eleven CC staff members make their selections:

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Celeste Kennel-Shank, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Richardson, Debra Bendis, David Heim, Amy Frykholm, Peter W. Marty, Steve Thorngate, Rachel Pyle, Janet Milkovich

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The good kind of patriotism

The church is called to be a loving critic, not a national cheerleader.

by Peter W. Marty

Bishop Budde among the Swedes

In September, Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde will travel to her mother’s homeland at the invitation of the Stockholm Cathedral.

by Gary G. Yerkey

Ted Cruz on stage at America Fest with pyrotechnics and multiple screens with his face projected behind him

The quiet rise of Christian dominionism

Jerry Falwell wanted to prepare America for the end of the world. Ted Cruz’s evangelical backers want to take America over.

The church cannot bless war

A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.

by C. Andrew Doyle and Stanley Hauerwas