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Gospel journey
With his imagination in overdrive, Bruce Fisk has created a fictional character to guide readers through the Holy Land and the thickets of New Testament scholarship.
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A special Christmas review of noteworthy books, video and music.
Categories include theology and spirituality, creative nonfiction, fiction, history and current
events, children's literature, TV on DVD, choral Christmas
music and popular music.
Author finds out just how much is expected of 'biblical' women
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(RNS) Living like a biblical woman, as Christian author Rachel Held Evans discovered, can be a real pain in thy rump....
Backers say Baylor prof faces firing for his views
A Baylor University professor is fighting dismissal charges that
supporters say are aimed at silencing a dissident voice in America's
Jewish community....
God's ironic hatred in Romans 9?
This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we reached Romans 9....
My picks for best new music
The Century's "Christmas picks" issue is out; it includes my annotated list of best (popular) music of...
CC recommends: Creative nonfiction
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, by Michael Dirda....
CC recommends: Fiction
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka. Otsuka tells the story, in collective voice, of Japanese women who traveled to meet husbands already living in the U.S....
CC recommends: History & current events
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, by Robin Wright....
CC recommends: Choral Christmas music
Christmas with Cantus, by Cantus. I'm partial to Cantus because the group started its musical life at St. Olaf College, where my husband, Tony Holt, taught singing for 20 years....
CC recommends: Popular music
The Harrow and the Harvest pushes Gillian Welch's winning formula further. On Mockingbird Time, the Jayhawks' sweet harmonies and gritty edges are finally back. There's a hefty dose of early Paul Simon on Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues. "Soul" is as good a word as any for Liz Janes's groovy little record Say Goodbye. Tom Waits's Bad As Me is accessible enough to convert some skeptics. And The Head and the Heart's self-titled debut is the feel-good record of the year.
Poetic Theology, by William A. Dyrness
In Poetic Theology, William Dyrness tries to keep one eye on the historical conversation about art's theological value, one eye on the issues of the contemporary church, and one eye on the...
Entrepreneurial idealism: Ministry in the 21st century
"What would happen," asks Carol Howard Merritt of Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., "if we coupled baby boomers' prophetic focus with the pragmatism of my generation? What if the church unleashed us to plant churches?"
Church leader questioned about handling of sexual abuse allegation
CLINTON, Miss. (ABP) – Questions about a Mississippi Baptist church’s
handling of child sex-abuse allegations against a former minister are...
In Nairobi, treating HIV on an empty stomach
Nairobi, Kenya, November 30 (ENInews)--Dealing with HIV infection is hard enough, but the rise in food prices throughout the Horn of Africa has produced a new problem -- treating HIV on an empty st...