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Adhering to Israel’s God
By Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy. (Fortress, 7...
Confessions of a scientist-theologian
By John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science. (Yale University Press, 160 pp.)...
The shape of the church
By Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The CHurch in the Image of the Trinity. (Eerdmans, 313 pp.)...
End of innocence
By Marc Ellis, Unholy Alliance: Religion and Atrocity in Our Time. (Fortress, 224 pp.)...
May God Have Mercy, by John C. Tucker
By John C. Tucker, May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment. (Norton, 358 pp.)...
Sinatra in the bell tower: God's ear is attuned to the stark syntax of human need
One morning, as I stood on the hill west of town admiring the morning sky just after dawn, the tune on the carillon at the Catholic church caught my attention....
Television angst: Stages on a scriptwriter's way
A new television season always begins in autumn, which is really a shame. Television needs a spring start, with buds bursting, grass growing greener, and trees coming alive....
A word and a calling: 1 Sam. 3:1-20; John 1:43-51
Reading the call of Samuel, one wonders why the lectionary confronts us with such a dread epiphany.
Salman Rushdie: Newsmaker of the year
Newness always poses a threat. Whereas the old and familiar is reassuring and offers at least the semblance of personal control, the new is unpredictable....
Letters to Reinhold: Eating dill pickles in paradise
Breakfast was your favorite meal; you often said so. Sometimes you would remember that the Dutch were known to have cheese with their breakfast....
Christian missions and the Western guilt complex
What actually happened in the encounter between Western missionaries and non-Christian peoples?
The gospel and the liberation of the poor
How can theology be black if the sources used for its explication are derived primarily from the white Western theological tradition?
Are there things a novelist shouldn't joke about? An interview with Kurt Vonnegut: An interview with Kurt Vonnegut
This article appeared in the Christian Century on November 24, 1976....
Hell on wheels
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver has to be one of the most disturbing films ever made....
Vietnam: No good ending
All along we felt that it would happen, but no speculation could comprehend the horror of its unfolding. There could be no “good ending” to this terrible war....
Seven days in Chile’s climate of fear
A report from Santiago, five months after the U.S.-backed 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet.
Incident at 18th and Michigan
This was the appropriate way to end that tortured week. It was one of those times when jail is a place of honor. We did not come to that decision hastily....