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The polar bear’s perspective
Family members gather in a Liverpool hotel ballroom to learn the fate of loved ones who were traveling on the Titanic. Everyone is frantically seeking information on survivors....
Ecclesial protest: Acts of disobedience
Getting arrested, as advocates for gays and lesbians did at the United Methodist General Conference in Cleveland this month, has become a banal form of protest....
Watershed in Cleveland: At the UMC General Conference
Seizing the blessings of a rising stock market and unexpectedly plentiful reserve funds, the United Methodist General Conference approved millions of dollars for innovative programs serving oversea...
Windblown: Acts 2:1-11
It was a great day for multiculturalism. It was the Tower of Babel turned upside-down, and what fell out was a glorious manifestation of the grace of God....
Set free
Perpetua, Macrina, Theodora, Sara, Syncletica, Melania the Younger and Melania the Elder, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Ávila—I didn’t hear about any of these great women of fa...
Hugging the middle
John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace, edited by James Yerkes...
Signs of the times
Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, by Albert Borgmann...
Wild and woolly
Fits, Trances & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James, by Ann Taves...
The vital center
The Emphatic Christian Center: Reforming American Political Practice, by Kyle A. Pasewark and Garrett E. Paul...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Eberhard Bethge, edited by Victoria J. Barnett
The new English translation of Bethge's 1970 biography, skillfully rendered by Barnett, includes all corrections and revisions of earlier editions....
Christian America?, by Christian Smith
Armed with data from surveys and interviews, Smith skewers the notion that all conservative evangelicals are deeply uncomfortable with American pluralism and eager to impose a fundamentalist Christ...