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Just what is ‘postliberal’ theology?
Reading a recent issue of the Christian Century finally provoked me to register a concern raised by other reviews and articles over many months....
Bothering God
I have a seven-year-old granddaughter by marriage named Madeline. She is blond, skinny and tall for her age. When she comes to visit, we cook together....
Crossroad and resurrection: The father of the prodigal son
During a Lenten retreat, we were asked to reflect on the feelings and role of the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son....
Marketing a classic
Nothing's sacred. Those of us who look for continuity in culture have always known that we could count on certain trademarks and products....
Jesus appears: Acts 2:14a; 22-32; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31
As a seminarian, I never seemed to be there when Jesus arrived.
Basic questions
Edited by Ronald F. Thiemann and William C. Placher. Why Are We Here? (Trinity, 166 pp.)...
Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics, edited by Reinhard Hütter and Theodor Dieter
Edited by Reinhard Hutter ansd Theodor Dieter, Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics: Protestants engage Pope John Paul II's Moral Encyclicals. (Eerdmans, 295 pp.)...
The Changing Face of Health Care, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships, edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D. Orr and Judith Allen Shelly
Edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D....
Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays, by Barrington Moore Jr.
By Barrington Moore Jr., Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays. (Cornell University Press, 240 pp.)...
Limits of politics
When the man who coined the term Moral Majority decides that the majority is gone and that the culture war is lost, people pay attention....
Drop-out Christianity: The religious right's sectarian future?
Is the religious right becoming sectarian? That was the question I found myself asking after Paul Weyrich, one of the founding fathers of the Moral Majority, recently called on Christians to "drop ...
Health and wholeness: Granger Westberg
In the early 1960s Granger Westberg gave a sermon on grief at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago....
Table grace: Returning to church
By Nora Gallagher, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith. (Knopf, 234 pp.)...
Marsha’s tears: An orphan of the church
Why are people ripping "For Those Tears I Died" out of songbooks and hymnals? It's one of the most popular Christian folk songs to come out of the '60s. It's been translated into 12 languages....
A matter of Christology
I began teaching the graduate class on the early church's views of Christ with ambivalent feelings....
Bodily ambivalence
By Teresea M. Shaw, The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity. (Fortress, 298 pp.)...
Dementions of faith
Among the church bulletin misprints you readers have sent us recently was one from a church in Livonia, Michigan, which had this "Question for Godparents": "Do you promise to support and encourage ...
We have seen the Lord (John 20:1-18)
"Were you there?" asks the song. No, no one was.
Shopping for Faith, by Richard Cimino and Don Lattin.
By Richard Cimino and Don Lattin, Shopping for Faith. (Jossey-Bass, 224 pp.)...
The Living Wage, by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce
By Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce, The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy. (New Press, 244 pp.)...