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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?
The challenge of religion in the ’80s
The more the secular belief in progress thrives on the crisis it creates, the more strongly do religious passions surface in public life.
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....
Why this non-God talk?
What had long been contended in secret is now shouted from housetops....
Selma: Sustaining the momentum
Two Century editors report from the second march in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 1965
Crucial questions for November 4: Presidential pick, California's Proposition 14
When "the tumult and the shouting dies" and the votes are counted on November 4, we shall first want to know who won the presidential election....
A straw in the racial wind
The Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Economist, writing several days in advance of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, predicted that however successful the marc...
Equality is not negotiable
Few American leaders could have made a better impression than did Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, and Martin Luther K...