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Immodest visions: Millennial hopes
Ten years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was breached. Within months the once monolithic world of the Soviet bloc was dismantled and the claims of Karl Marx decisively discredited....
Reporting on Satan: Devil worship in Kenya?
Kenyans were sent reeling by a report made public in September by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Cult of Devil Worship in Kenya. Reactions range from ridicule to alarm....
One good teacher
We buried a fine teacher the other day. He was not a scintillating lecturer, nor was he a particularly exciting person....
Texas miracle
A reader from Texas sent us a copy of a letter issued by a church summer camp: "Dear Parent(s): As you were aware, yesterday we went to the Mary T. Meager Aquatic Center....
Cover-ups: Psalm 85
Blaise Pascal evokes a sense of existential dread in this famous line: "The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me." In his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, W....
Too much irony
For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today, by Jedediah PurdySoul of a Citzen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, by Paul Rogat Loeb...
Listening to the text
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, by Robert Alter...
Suffering and doctrine
Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale...
Institutional ties
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities, by Robert Wuthnow...
The new orthodoxy?
Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, edited by John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward...
An assault and a healing
Working with Available Light: A Family's World after Violence, by Jamie Kalven...
Resistance and reconstruction
The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, edited by Christopher Rowland...
Siding with the Arians
When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome, by Richard E. Rubenstein...
Israel’s covenant
O Jerusalem! The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant, by Marc H. Ellis...
Rare dialogue: Falwell's gesture
Jerry Falwell loves making grand gestures and startling statements....