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Red-Hot and Righteous, by Diane Winston
To the beat of their drums, missionaries from the "Save-a-Soul Mission"—a dead ringer for the Salvation Army—march onstage in Guys and Dolls, the 1950 Broadway musical comedy....
A Guide to the Sacraments, by John Macquarrie
John Macquarrie's small book on the sacraments offers everything those who know his work have come to expect....
Is America Breaking Apart? by John A. Hall and Charles Lindholm
The short answer to the question posed by the title of this insightful and persuasive book is no. John A....
Ethics for the New Millennium, by the Dalai Lama
St. Augustine told Christian pastors that their most eloquent instruction would lie not in their words but in their lives. The Dalai Lama's new book is an example of that principle still at work....
Ecumenical challenge: A new story for Protestants and Catholics
On October 31, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will celebrate the signing of a joint declaration on justification by faith....
The cross as good news for women
The passion narrative is the story of a series of violations. Is it good for us to find our identity in it?
A Zapatista church: Presbyterians in Chiapas: Displaced and abandoned
Amid poverty, war and, occasionally, massacre, the Presbyterians in the town of Polhó in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas are singing for their lives....
Heart's home
As a woman who tries to live out Benedictine values as a layperson connected with a particular monastery, I try to spend at least a week every year at St. Benedict's Monastery in St....
Fallibilities
Readers supply us with more items for this column than we can acknowledge or print, but we do our best to sneak these signs of human fallibility in among our weighty pronouncements....
Debating evolution: The God who would intervene: Religion meets science
In the days before the Kansas School Board's August decision to strip the teaching of evolution from state science standards, the presidents of the Kansas university system issued a statement...
At table with the saints: 1 John 3:1-3
Would going to church make any difference in how you live—or die?
The center and beyond
Re-forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present, edited by Doublas Jacobsen and William Vance Trollinger Jr. ...
Rendering Unto Caesar, by Anthony Gill, and Religious Politics in Latin America, by Brian H. Smith
Twenty years ago the churches in Latin America were viewed as playing a major role in resisting military dictatorships and in developing new revolutionary social models....
Sensational art: Shocked in Brooklyn
The exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Museum that has caused a furor in New York and generated reams of material for editorial pages is titled "Sensation." That title offers a good clue about the commerc...
Violence and illness: Treating the mentally ill
When violence breaks out and murder occurs, we want an explanation, a reason, and preferably someone to blame....
Whatever happened to liberation theology? God's "option for the poor": God's "option for the poor"
Not long ago, a retired pastor and theologian who had lived and taught in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s came back to visit....
Mainline faith, with passion: Cultural immersion of the good kind
Thirteen years ago I became the pastor of a downtown church that had once been a major force in the community. At one time, 2,000 people filled its huge sanctuary on Sunday mornings....
God’s holiness
The rabbi put the question to my friend directly: Do Christians believe that God is holy?" My friend was initially taken aback; she thought of the popularity of the hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy," and of ...
Refugees with dwindling rights
To reach the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, you drive due east on a new highway built through the Israeli-occupied West Bank, ignoring, if you can, the occasional Palestinian refugee camp in ...