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That Hurts
An interdisciplinary study of pain
by Philip Yancey
May/June 2008
Heal Thyself
Home remedies; advice for doctors.
by David Graham
May/June 2008
Maya Presbyterians
Max Weber was wrong about disenchantment.
by Rudy Nelson
March/April 2008
"I yet Not I"
Charismatic Christians in Venezuela and Ghana.
by David Martin
March/April 2008
The Good City
Designed for walking.
by David Taylor
March/April 2008
For the Birds
What are we looking for?
by Cindy Crosby
March/April 2008
Holy Hegemony!
A visit to Branson.
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
March/April 2008
Fathers and Sons
On Francis Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer, and Crazy for God.
by Os Guinness
March/April 2008
Good Listener
Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith.
by Phyllis Alsdurf
March/April 2008
Culture Shock
Americans teaching abroad.
by Susan Wunderink
January/February 2008
The Government We Deserve
Who's conning who?
by Eugene McCarraher
January/February 2008
Hot Topic
The Skeptical Environmentalist returns.
by Pete Geddes
January/February 2008
It's All So Simple!
The Israel lobby.
by Paul Merkley
January/February 2008
A Scandal of the Secular Conscience?
Who really cares.
by Jon A. Shields
January/February 2008
Son of a Preacher Man
A memoir by Frank Schaeffer.
by Betty Smartt Carter
November/December 2007
Radical Asymmetry
A comparative study of preventive attack and weapons of mass destruction.
by Mark Moyar
November/December 2007
A New Kind of War
Child soldiers.
by Tim Stafford
November/December 2007
Throwaway People, Throwaway Land
The impact of "mountaintop removal."
by Norman Wirzba
November/December 2007
Break on Through to the Other Side
Deirdre McCloskey's Bobo Theodicy.
by Eugene McCarraher
November/December 2007
A Palestinian Life
The idiosyncratic yet exemplary story of Sari Nusseibeh.
by Harold Fickett
November/December 2007
Hauerwas at School
What's a university for?
by Thomas Albert Howard
November/December 2007
Restive Youths in Middle Age
Why is there social theory in the United States?
by Bruce Kuklick
November/December 2007
Showdown in Waco
Baylor 2012
by Michael S. Hamilton
November/December 2007
Need a Long Spoon?
The new evangelical élites.
by W. Bradford Wilcox
November/December 2007
The Trouble with Bodies
For women especially.
by Lauren F. Winner
November/December 2007
Getting a Life
The challenge of emerging adulthood.
by Christian Smith
November/December 2007
It Is Written
Literalism ad absurdum.
by Jana Riess
November/December 2007
POLIticS
Exercised Over "Free Exercise"
by Richard N. Ostling
September/October 2007
POLIticS
Banking on It
The financial Founding Fathers.
by David Skeel
September/October 2007
Making Biscuits
Adventures Up South.
by Betty Smartt Carter
September/October 2007
Simply Stay
Caring for mother.
by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
September/October 2007
In Extremistan
The impact of the highly improbable.
by Greg Cootsona
September/October 2007
The Big Sneeze
What allergies are telling us.
by J. Matthew Sleeth
September/October 2007
Yeoman of the New South
Farming ain't what it used to be.
by Bill McKibben
September/October 2007
High and Inside
An economist's view of baseball.
by Robert Whaples
July/August 2007
POLIticS
"Let Us Build Ourselves … a Tower"
by Lillian Daniel
July/August 2007
An Outpost of God's Kingdom
Making a Christian home.
by Lauren F. Winner
July/August 2007
What Scandal? Whose Conscience?
Some reflections on Ronald Sider's Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience..
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
July/August 2007
THE SCIENCE PAGES
No Chance
Michael Behe is back.
by Ric Machuga
July/August 2007
Reading the World Bank
Why it is vitally needed despite its flaws.
by Terence Halliday
July/August 2007
"The Lord Shall Judge"
Providence reconsidered.
by Brad S. Gregory
July/August 2007
Planned Parenthood
On closer inspection, China's draconian population policy is surprisingly familiar.
by Ross Douthat
May/June 2007
Nature's Economy
Economics and the natural sciences.
by Andrew P. Morriss
May/June 2007
Anthropology's "Other"
The reformation of a scholarly discipline.
by David Martin
May/June 2007
Back to the Bible
A new Christian heartland.
by Joel Carpenter
May/June 2007
POLITICS
Rx for Excess
Serve God, save the planet.
by Andy Crouch
May/June 2007
Not So Exceptional After All
American evangelicalism reassessed.
by David Bebbington
May/June 2007
Fertility, Faith, & the Future of the West
A conversation with Phillip Longman.
Interview by W. Bradford Wilcox
May/June 2007
Our Daily Bread
The revival of French bread.
by Bill McKibben
May/June 2007
Francophiles & Francophobes
In search of the real France.
by Otto Selles
May/June 2007
Waco Revisited
The theology of the Branch Davidians.
by Richard J. Mouw
March/April 2007
POLITICS
Feeling Green
Whose religious environmentalism?
by Andy Crouch
March/April 2007
POLITICS
6.5 Billion and Counting
A Christian case for small families.
by J. Matthew Sleeth
March/April 2007
THE SCIENCE PAGES
Chemical Reactions
Nerve gas and other unconventional weapons.
by Neil Gussman
January/February 2007
Coffins on Their Shoulders
Seeing through the eyes of Palestinians.
by Gary M. Burge
January/February 2007
Was Israel a Mistake?
Three views (including former President Carter's).
by Paul Merkley
January/February 2007
POLITICS
Whose Faith-Based Initiative?
A look at the 2004 presidential campaign.
by Sean Everton
January/February 2007
On Slippery Slopes, the Blogosphere, and (oh, yes) Women
The place of women in the redemptive community.
by Susan Wise Bauer
January/February 2007
POLITICS
How Did It Start?
The origins of Irish sectarianism.
by Mary Noll Venables
January/February 2007
Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics
Mistakes were made.
by Christian Smith
January/February 2007
Cross-Purposes
How 19th c. Protestants appropriated Catholic forms in the Gothic Revival.
by Edward Short
January/February 2007
Better Building
A smart way to reduce carbon emissions.
by Bill McKibben
January/February 2007
Darwin's Graveyards
Yes, he really was a Social Darwinist.
by Edward T. Oakes
November/December 2006
POLITICS
Social Science, Ideology, and American Evangelicals
Who's really "anti-science"?
by Christian Smith
November/December 2006
Reading, Writing, and Religion
Religion-in-the-schools controversies in 12 countries.
by Stephen Prothero
November/December 2006
POLITICS
Moral Issues and Legislative Politics
God, sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives.
by Amy E. Black
November/December 2006
POLITICS
Because of Dixie
The peculiar role of the South in modern American politics.
by Collin Hansen
November/December 2006
THE CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT
With or Against Culture?
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
September/October 2006
Modernity, Middle Eastern-style
Three generations of Arab women.
by Rayyan Al-Shawaf
September/October 2006
Islam in American Protestant Thought
Precious little courtesy or understanding.
by Thomas S. Kidd
September/October 2006
Getting Comfortable
Houses the offer "prospect and refuge."
by Lauren F. Winner
September/October 2006
Anti-Bland Design
Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House series.
by Andrea Nagy
September/October 2006
The Rabbit Habit
Beyond bunny kitsch.
by Agnieszka Tennant
September/October 2006
Nothing Runs Like a Deere
Building a better plow.
by Rob Moll
September/October 2006
Shock and Awe
An obsession with bees.
by Eric Miller
September/October 2006
The Bird Man
John James Audubon.
by Cindy Crosby
September/October 2006
Eating Locally
The new organic.
by Ragan Sutterfield
September/October 2006
The Tools of Trade
How container ships enabled an economic revolution.
by William T. Bogart
July/August 2006
Model Home
The story behind a "Solar Decathlon" winner.
by Eric O. Jacobsen
July/August 2006
What's Law Got to Do with It?
Recovering a lost heritage.
by David A. Skeel, Jr.
July/August 2006
Sinning Boldly
Not so deadly.
by Stephen Prothero
July/August 2006
Public Indecency
An intellectual and the flag.
by Allen C. Guelzo
July/August 2006
The False Gospel of Work
Against the cant of diligence and virtue.
by Eugene McCarraher
July/August 2006
The Prophet and the Evangelist
The public "conversation" of Reinhold Niebuhr and Billy Graham.
by Andrew S. Finstuen
July/August 2006
Catholic. Intellectual.
Ten believing scholars.
by Ashley Woodiwiss
July/August 2006
On a Pass and a Prayer
Why we no longer believe in sports but should.
by Mark Galli
July/August 2006
God with Us (and Them)
by David Dark
May/June 2006
The Birkenstock Brigade
Rod Dreher's report on "crunchy conservatives."
by Eric Miller
May/June 2006
Goodbye, Blog
The friend of information but the enemy of thought.
by Alan Jacobs
May/June 2006
God of the Latté
Faith in the suburbs.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2006
Ambiguous Utopias
The formative history of suburbia.
by Julia Vitullo-Martin
May/June 2006
More Than Meets the Eye
History and The End of the Spear.
by Kathryn Long
May/June 2006
Recovering Catholic
A squandered heritage regained.
by Christopher Shannon
May/June 2006
Advice to a Pope
Ever-timely words from Bernard of Clairvaux.
by Doug Koop
May/June 2006
Oil Profits and Ethics Don't Mix
Or do they? A conversation with Norwegian philosopher and Sunday school teacher Henrik Syse.
Interview by Alf K. Walgermo
May/June 2006
Auspicious Criticism
The challenge of Christopher Shannon.
by Wilfred M. McClay
May/June 2006
L'affaire Hochschild and Evangelical Colleges
Is a Catholic out of place on Wheaton's faculty?
by Thomas Albert Howard
May/June 2006
The Lesser Evil?
Torture lite.
by Stephen Lake
March/April 2006
Black Hoods for Jesus
A modest project for the resistant church.
by Garret Keizer
March/April 2006
The Best a Man Can Get
In search of the perfect shave.
by Andy Crouch
March/April 2006
What Went Wrong
The chaos of post-Saddam Iraq.
by Keith J. Pavlischek
March/April 2006
High Fliers
Behind the corporate scandals.
by Kenneth Porrello
March/April 2006
The Sword of the Lord
How "otherwordly" fundamentalism became a political power.
by George Marsden
March/April 2006
Choose Life
Lessons from Wendell Berry and Yul Brynner.
by Alan Jacobs
March/April 2006
Against the Manichaeans
Philip Jenkins' revisionist take on post-1960s America.
by John Schmalzbauer
March/April 2006
The Shackles of Caste
How India's former "untouchables" are finding freedom.
by Stan Guthrie
January/February 2006
Conviction of Sin, Hope for Redemption
Conversion in a Papua New Guinea community.
by Brian Howell
January/February 2006
Why Growth Is Good
Contra the anarchists.
by Kenneth G. Elzinga
January/February 2006
Sleep Therapy
In search of a counterculture for the common good.
By Lauren F. Winner
January/February 2006
Revenge of the Ebionites
Does God care about what we eat?
by Stephen Webb
November/December 2005
"Slim for Him"
Christian dieting and American culture.
by Grant Wacker
November/December 2005
Religion and the Media
Do they get it?
by Philip Jenkins
November/December 2005
Better Homes and Children
The brave new world of meticulously planned parenthood.
by Amy Laura Hall
November/December 2005
The Bible in American Public Life, 1860-2005
Dilemmas at the center, insights from the margins.
by Mark Noll
September/October 2005
In the Midst of Things
I did not want to make life-or-death decisions for my mother.
By Virginia Stem Owens
September/October 2005
Onward Christian Soldiers?
Religion and the Bush Doctrine.
By James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, and Corwin E. Smidt
July/August 2005
The Confidence Man
Meet Mark C. Taylor, the virtuoso of Nietzschean boosterism.
By Eugene McCarraher
July/August 2005
Too Much Choice?
On misdiagnosing the problem.
By Andrew P. Morriss
July/August 2005
Cracks in the Tower
A closer look at the Christian college boom.
By Allen Guelzo
July/August 2005
A Tale of Two Schools
Harvard is Harvard. Bethel is the it school for Baptist General Conference diehards.
By Nathaniel Taylor
July/August 2005
Breaking 80
Golfers don't want to be better people. They want to be better golfers.
By Mark Galli
July/August 2005
No Easy Saint
Bonhoeffer and just war.
By Ragan Sutterfield
May/June 2005
The University Under the Microscope
There's hope for higher ed.
By Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
May/June 2005
Guerrillas in Jesus Land
A different way to be Christian in America.
By Garret Keizer
May/June 2005
The Revolution Begins in the Pews
Trotsky and St. Benedict.
By Eugene McCarraher
May/June 2005
The "Virtue" of Lust?
So says philosopher Simon Blackburn.
By W. Jay Wood
May/June 2004
Sex and the Single Christian
No, chastity isn't archaic.
By Agnes Howard
May/June 2005
Community and Conscience
Catholics and contraception.
By Jenell Williams Paris
May/June 2005
The Soul of Sex
Do we need Christian sex manuals?
By Bethany Torode
May/June 2005
Missing Persons
A novel set against Liberia's brutal civil war.
By John Utz
March/April 2005
Who Invented the 1980s?
The Carter decade.
By Philip Jenkins
March/April 2005
Rites of Passage
Debs and pledges.
By Lauren F. Winner
March/April 2005
Between Pacifism and Jihad
The just-war tradition reconsidered.
By J. Daryl Charles
March/April 2005
The Gospel According to America
Remembering the Through-a-Glass-Darkly clause.
By David Dark
March/April 2005
Books in a New Century
Future Bound
The greatly exaggerated demise of an American institution.
By Nathan Bierma
January/February 2005
Exit Smiling
William F. Buckley's long farewell.
By Jeremy Lott
January/February 2005
The Real Life of an At-Home Mother
Desperate housewives.
By Carla Barnhill
January/February 2005
Families and Economics
Tying the two together in fiction and nonfiction.
By Andrew P. Morriss
January/February 2005
The Difference the Family Makes
And what the church has to do with it.
By Mary Noll Venables
January/February 2005
The Gospel According to …
… Charlie Brown, Tony Soprano, and other unlikely spiritual guides.
By Andy Crouch
January/February 2005
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
Why don't Christians live what they preach?
By Ronald J. Sider
January/February 2005
What American Teenagers Believe
A conversation with Christian Smith.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
January/February 2005
The Legend of Bono Vox
Lessons learned in the church of U2.
By Scott Calhoun
November/December 2004
Churches, Charity, and Civil Society
The debate over faith-based social services.
By Joseph Loconte
September/October 2004
When Marriage Brings Suffering
The meaning of marital covenants in bleak seasons.
By David P. Gushee
September/October 2004
Screwtape Proposes a Divorce
The pitfalls of Great Expectations.
By Eric Metaxas
September/October 2004
Sex Ed. For Adults
God-given longings in a broken world.
By Jenell Williams Paris
September/October 2004
"Theology of the Body"
Pope John Paul II on the biblical foundations of marriage and sexuality.
By Laura Merzig Fabrycky
September/October 2004
"Soft Patriarchs"
A conversation with Brad Wilcox.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
September/October 2004
Special Section on Marriage
From "I Do" to "You Can't"
Marriage isn't as important as we're led to believe.
By Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
September/October 2004
Special Section on Marriage
The Spinster's Story
Is marriage the only happy ending we can imagine for our stories?
By Jennifer L. Holberg
September/October 2004
Special Section on Marriage
As Long as We Both Shall Live
An introduction to the special section on marriage.
September/October 2004
Special Section on Marriage
In Search of the Good Marriage
It's not just couple-centered.
By Lauren F. Winner
September/October 2004
The Search for Redemption
Confession without remorse.
By Bruce Kuklick
July/August 2004
Good News from the Hispanic Church
The community-serving activities of Hispanic Protestant churches.
by Amy L. Sherman
July/August 2004
Durable Contempt
Why anti-Americanism thrives.
by Allen C. Guelzo
July/August 2004
Dances with Medicine Men
Intimidating doctors, aging and confused parents, and the loss of personhood.
by Virginia Stem Owens
July/August 2004
Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
by Philip Jenkins
July/August 2004
Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
July/August 2004
David Martin: Sociologist as Servant of the Church
A faithful witness at the intersection of sociology and theology.
by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
May/June 2004
How to Unmuzzle a Threshing Ox
Bridging the gender divide in the workplace.
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
May/June 2004
Food™
How we've gone from raising crops to worrying about them.
by Eric Miller
May/June 2004
Tell Me Again: Why Do Churches Grow?
Looking for answers in demographics.
by James A. Mathisen
May/June 2004
Democratic Piety
Jeffrey Stout reinvigorates the debate over religion in the public square.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2004
The Mosque on the Corner
Muslims in the United States.
by Philip Jenkins
May/June 2004
Toxic Maxims
Misleading advice about business ethics from "America's leadership expert."
by David W. Gill
March/April 2004
The Death and Rebirth of Ivan Illich
A call to "Christian conspiracy."
by Christopher Shannon
March/April 2004
Wow! Sweet!
The pleasures of a Mini Cooper, and other adventures in technology on a human scale.
by Andy Crouch
March/April 2004
Evasive Maneuvers
Can Protestant historians play by the rules of the secular academy without giving the game away?
by Bruce Kuklick
March/April 2004
"Salvation Inflation"?
A conversation with Alan Wolfe.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
March/April 2004
They're OK, We're OK
So much for being "resident aliens."
by R. Stephen Warner
March/April 2004
The Meaning of Christ's Suffering
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
March/April 2004
Killing Them Kindly
Lessons from the euthanasia movement.
by Richard Weikart
January/February 2004
Doing Time
Do correctional facilities correct anything?
by Nathan Bierma
January/February 2004
The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham
January/February 2004
The Disenchanters
It's easy to laud magic when you don't believe in it.
by Agnieszka Tennant
January/February 2004
Environment as Creation
Conquest vs. care for the wilderness.
by Walter Brueggemann
January/February 2004
In Democracy We Trust
The conflicted loyalties of Christian antiliberals.
by Eugene McCarraher
January/February 2004
Evangelicals: Fragmented and Thriving
The history and future of evangelicalism as a movement.
by Mark Galli
January/February 2004
Dirty Bombs and the Death of Daniel Pearl
Is Pakistan a far greater threat to the United States than Iraq was under Saddam Hussein?
by Allen C. Guelzo
January/February 2004
Eating the Supper of the Lamb in a Cool Whip Society
Albert Borgmann's post-technological feast.
by Andy Crouch
January/February 2004
How the Counterculture Went to Church
An unexplored legacy of the Sixties.
by Alan Wolfe
November/December 2003
Who Cares About Care?
Declarations of dependence.
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
November/December 2003
Where Babies Come from
Motherhood as a project.
by Agnes Howard
November/December 2003
The Other Terrorists
Extreme reactions to extremists: conflating white supremacy with Christianity.
by Philip Jenkins
November/December 2003
Heaven on Earth
Economics and the secular faith in progress.
by Andrew P. Morriss
September/October 2003
A Journalist in Babylon
The need for a critical mass in the Fourth Estate.
by Stan Guthrie
July/August 2003
The Movies Go to War
The moral messages and political overtones of war films.
by Peter T. Chattaway
July/August 2003
"Getting Older Younger"
Marketing to teens and tweens.
by Nathan Bierma
July/August 2003
Who Owns the Holy Land?
by Gary Burge
July/August 2003
The Life and Death of Homo Œconomicus
The social sciences: Where's the humanity?
by David N. Livingstone
May/June 2003
Human Rites Activist
Reading Mary Douglas: The radical cultural theory of a Catholic anthropologist.
by Michael Jindra
May/June 2003
Papists!
Saving Catholicism from scorn and irrelevance.
Kenneth Tanner
May/June 2003
Godless Europe?
Questioning Europe's devout past and secular present.
by Philip Jenkins
May/June 2003
Who Paid for Secularization?
The agenda—and money—behind a social shift.
by Christian Smith
May/June 2003
Faith, Dogma, and Academic Freedom
The problem with narrow-minded openness.
by Joseph Loconte
May/June 2003
The Young and the Restless
The next generation rediscovers orthodoxy.
by Laura Merzig Fabrycky
May/June 2003
Church as Civics 101
The robust civic engagement of Protestant clergy
John Schmalzbauer
May/June 2003
Redrawing the Mainline
Faith-based activism
Dennis R. Hoover
May/June 2003
Political Islam
A conversation with Gilles Kepel.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
May/June 2003
America the Ambiguous
The paradoxes of a chosen nation.
by Philip Jenkins
March/April 2003
Not-So-Poor Richard
Tracing market ideology in Protestant evangelical thought.
by David A. Skeel, Jr.
March/April 2003
Bankrupt Nation
The prevalence of debt in an oasis of prosperity.
by Stephen Smith
March/April 2003
Let Us Prey
The menace of nanotechnology in storytelling and science.
by C. Christopher Hook
March/April 2003
My Friend, the Spy
An FBI colleague on the secret life of Robert Hanssen.
by Jim Ohlson
March/April 2003
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Seeking substance and servanthood in a self-help genre.
by Douglas LeBlanc
March/April 2003
The Land
Evangelicals and Israel.
by Gerald McDermott
March/April 2003
Beyond Bricks and Mortar?
Rethinking the Catholic university.
by Christopher Shannon
January/February 2003
Resistance Movement
Looking beneath the surface of pop culture.
by Nathan Bierma
January/February 2003
"I Was Thirsty … "
American congregations and the provision of welfare.
by Robert Wuthnow
January/February 2003
Counting Helping Hands
A conversation with Ram Cnaan
Interview by Agnieszka Tennant
January/February 2003
Litigating the Good Fight
How Christians can avoid a persecution complex.
by Joseph Laconte
November/December 2002
"What Is Written in the Law?"
Christian perspectives on legal thought.
by Donald A. Yerxa
November/December 2002
The Groves of Academe
Special Pleading?
by Will Katerburg
November/December 2002
Bad Habits of the High-Tech Heart
After the fall.
by Nathan Bierma
November/December 2002
Uncompromising Positions
Hitchens and Orwell.
by Preston Jones
November/December 2002
Adult Education
Why we need journals of opinion.
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
November/December 2002
The Virtues of Resistance
Computer Control, part 3.
by Alan Jacobs
September/October 2002
The Shaming of Lech Walesa
Why the defeater of communism finds himself defeated by ex-communists—and why he and the American public haven't noticed.
by Agnieszka Tennant
September/October 2002
Why Separation of Church and State Is Still a Good Idea
(even if it may not be what the Founders had in mind).
by Alan Wolfe
September/October 2002
Force of Habit
Hostility and condescension toward religion in the university.
by David S. Dockery
September/October 2002
A Conversation on Books About Islam and the Middle East
Looking for signs of hope
Philip Yancey and John Wilson
July/August 2002
Life Among the Cyber-Amish
Computer Control Part 2
Alan Jacobs
July/August 2002
The Decline That Wasn't
A widely cited 1987 study by James Davison Hunter claimed that students at evangelical colleges were becoming increasingly secularized and abandoning their orthodox faith commitments—and predicted that this trend would continue. A new study reviews the evidence.
James M. Penning and Corwin E. Smidt
July/August 2002
How Good Parents Have Given Up on Their Teens
And why they need to take back responsibility for the kids.
by Carla Barnhill
May/June 2002
Still Under the Bell Jar
What has really changed for women since the Fifties?
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 2002
Computer Control
Who's in charge?
by Alan Jacobs
May/June 2002
(Not) Guilty
When the courts fail.
by Steve Weinberg
May/June 2002
By the People
The American jury.
by Julia Vitullo-Martin
May/June 2002
The Lessons of Enron
Where have we heard this story before?
by David A Skeel, Jr.
May/June 2002
Comparative Terrorism
Al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo.
by Christopher C. Harmon
March/April 2002
Why America Turned Right
New accounts of the "Reagan revolution".
by Lauren F. Winner
March/April 2002
Talk of the Town
The rise and fall of the American downtown.
by Julia Vitullo-Martin
March/April 2002
Shame the Devil
In the wake of September 11, everyone was quoting W.H Auden's "September 1, 1939." But Auden himself repudiated the poem's most famous lines.
by Alan Jacobs
March/April 2002
Stranger in a Strange Land
Where, in the passionate and sometimes acrimonious debate over worship today, is there any sustained reflection on the Eucharist?
by John Wilson
March/April 2002
Bloodstained Partition
What the history of "high politics" doesn't tell about the creation of Pakistan.
by Chandra S. Mallampalli
March/April 2002
The Female Body Politic
Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy.
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
January/February 2002
Is Globalization Christian?
Why the WTO protestors had it wrong.
by Jeremy Lott
January/February 2002
"An Immensely Rich Cosmos"
Three reports from Africa.
by Alexis Beggs Olsen
November/December 2001
Sex & Science
Does making love still lead to making babies?
by Sam Torode
November/December 2001
Brave New Laws
A conversation with bioethics lawyer Lori Andrews
interview by Agnieszka Tennant
November/December 2001
The Strange Decade of the Promise Keepers
The revealing story of the rise and fall but continued existence of Coach Mac's Christian men's movement.
by James A. Mathisen
September/October 2001
Edward Said: Secular Protestant
The world's most famous English professor, and its most famous Palestinian after Yasir Arafat.
by Mark Walhout
September/October 2001
Professor of Death
Peter Singer and the scandal of "bioethics."
by J.L.A. Garcia
September/October 2001
Cracks in the Monolith?
Evangelical Protestants and the 2000 election.
by Lyman A. Kellstedt, Corwin E. Smidt, James L. Guth, and John C. Green
May/June 2001
Practicing Faith in the Inner City
Assessing faith-based social ministries.
by Mark R. Gornik
May/June 2001
Endangered Species
3,000 of the world's 6,000 languages are scheduled for extinction by the year 2100.
by Preston Jones
March/April 2001
God & Mammon, Inc.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel discovers that religion builds character, makes us healthier, saves the marginalized, and improves society—whether or not its claims are true.
by James D. Bratt
March/April 2001
Democracy Agonistes
Why hand-wringing about partisanship is pointless.
by Ashley Woodiwiss
March/April 2001
Endangered Species
3,000 of the world's 6,000 languages are scheduled for extinction by the year 2100.
by Preston Jones
March/April 2001
Who's That in the Mirror?
Lessons from the furor over John Ashcroft's interview in The Southern Partisan. A Web Exclusive.
by Betty Smartt Carter
February 7, 2001
The Spirits Are Angry
Liberia's secret cults in the service of civil war.
by Shelly Dick and Wiebe Boer
January/February 2001
Turkey Undemonized
The Europeanness of Turkey.
by Douglas A. Howard
January/February 2001
Development Report Card
Evangelicals follow Jesus' command to love their neighbors—to a point.
by Stephen Offutt
January/February 2001
How Can You Be Croatian?
Why national identities are worth preserving.
by Miroslav Volf
January/February 2001
The Rules of the Capitalist Game
A conversation with Hernando de Soto about how to make capitalism work for everybody.
Interview by Michael Cromartie
January/February 2001
The 150% Person
As the daughter of migrant workers, Billie Davis learned about "marginality" firsthand.
by Billie Davis
November/December 2000
Death and Texas
How a "Community Conversation" about the death penalty turned into an anti-conversation carried on by an anti-community.
by Virginia Stem Owens
November/December 2000
No Exit?
Whiteness, part 2: No atonement can ever be made for the sin of Whiteness.
by Susan Wise Bauer
November/December 2000
Masculinity Under the Microscope
Lost boys and throwaway dads. A Web Exclusive.
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
October 18, 2000
Tattoo or Not Tattoo?
Excursions in "tattoo culture." A Web Exclusive.
by Lauren F. Winner
October 11, 2000
Arming America
"The epigraph to Michael Bellesiles's brilliant new book is taken from one of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories … "
by John Wilson
September/October 2000
Whiteness
"Two years ago, we buried my grandmother in the family graveyard, in the middle of a cornfield. Overtop of the old Confederate soldier graves, the funeral home director set out rows of folding metal chairs for the relatives … "
by Susan Wise Bauer
September/October 2000
The White Man's Burden
Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party by Frederick J. Simonelli
by Gerald Early
September/October 2000
On Becoming Visible
Race and the imago Dei
by Lucas E. Morel
September/October 2000
Payback
Thinking about retribution.
by Oliver O'Donovan
July/August 2000
Battles over Bibles
In Discordance With the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible by Peter J. Thuesen
by Paul C. Gutjahr
March/April 2000
Old Stuff
Why Antiques Roadshow is PBS's highest-rated prime-time program.
by Elesha Coffman
March/April 2000
His Marriage
The merits of marriage for men.
by W. Bradford Wilcox
March/April 2000
The People's Church
The global evangelical upsurge and its political consequences.
by David Martin
January/February 2000
Wedding Nights—and Daze
The wedding day is still considered the most important day of your life. The wedding night is no longer something special.
by Lauren F. Winner
January/February 2000
Bed, Breakfast, and Community
The appeal of B&Bs.
by Carla Barnhill
January/February 2000
Aliens, A-Bombs, and Mastodons
Travels in Nevada and Colorado.
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance by David Thomson
Creating Colorado: The Making of A Western American Landscape, 1860-1940 by William Wyckoff
by Preston Jones
January/February 2000
Darwin Comes to America
"Anyone who has grown up in a Sinclair Lewis-style small town understands the significance of informal meeting places—barber shops, park benches, cafes. In Dayton, Tennessee—population 1,800—in the 1920s, the place to meet was the soda fountain in Fred Robinson's drugstore. The topic on May 4, 1925, was evolution in the public schools … "
by Karl W. Giberson and Donald A. Yerxa
November/December 1999
From American Graffiti to American Pie
The new "teensploitation" films.
by Peter T. Chattaway
November/December 1999
The Taciturn Virgin
How a teenager's vision resisted the disenchantment of nineteenth-century France.
Lourdes: Body and Spirit In the Secular Age by Ruth Harris
by Lauren F. Winner
November/December 1999
Outlawing Illegal Acts
"A series of horrific incidents, including several racially inspired shooting sprees by white supremacists and the brutal torture and murder of gay men in Wyoming and Alabama, has reignited the debate over "hate-crime" laws … "
Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics by James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter
by Thomas C. Berg
November/December 1999
Random Jottings Found on the Back of a Movie Poster …
Random Jottings Found on the Back of a Movie Poster Announcing the Opening of Friday the Thirteenth, Part XXIII, Transcribed on the Night of the Last Lunar Eclipse
by Albert Haley
November/December 1999
Y2Krazy
You'd better stock up. Only those who purchase will survive.
by Susan Wise Bauer
September/October 1999
From Drum-Bangers to Doughnut Fryers
Material culture, consumerism, and the transformation of the Salvation Army.
by Lauren F. Winner
September/October 1999
What Shall We Do With Mother?
"One day a year or so ago, my father found my mother lying on the bedroom floor where she had fallen while tucking in a sheet. Her collarbone, they discovered at the emergency room, had snapped when she fell … "
by Virginia Stem Owens
July/August 1999
Will El Norte Change or Be Changed?
When it comes to immigration, it's not just the economy, estupido!
Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America by Roberto Suro
by Roberto Rivera
July/August 1999
Melting Pot Redux
Assimilation, American Style by Peter D. Salins
We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathen Glazer
by Philip Gleason
July/August 1999
A Piety of the Word
Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible In a Time of Church Conflict by John P. Burgess
by Stephen E. Fowl
July/August 1999
Rockett, Lara and Barbie
Computer games for girls.
by Lauren F. Winner
May/June 1999
For God and Country, Ambivalently
American Christians and the military.
by Richard Pierard
May/June 1999
Corporate-sponsored Spontaneity
The marketing of Alanis Morissette.
by Susan Wise Bauer
May/June 1999
Irish Catholics and Protestants Together?
Adventures In Reconciliation: Twenty-Nine Catholic Testimonies edited by Paddy Monaghan and Eugene Boyle
by Ronald A. Wells
May/June 1999
Nuclear Promised Land
"Ever since Israel's founding, the same question has been asked by nosy journalists and students of international affairs: 'Does Israel possess nuclear weapons?' … "
Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen
by David Aikman
May/June 1999
The Subjunctive That Killed Hugh Finn
Our language about what a patient "would" want turns sympathy into empathy, pity into murder.
by J. Bottum
March/April 1999
That Old-time Religion
The surprising source of Václav Havel's hope.
by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
March/April 1999
The Dead Zone
Pursuing the truth about genocide in the killing fields of Bosnia and Kosovo.
by Chris William Erdman
January/February 1999
Václav Havel's Improbable Life
The little rich kid who lost everything and gained his—and his nation's—soul.
by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
January/February 1999
Not Your Father's Communism
A conversation with Adam Michnik.
by the editors
January/February 1999
Bear Market for Base Communities
Pentecostalism, power shifts, and competition in Latin American religion.
by David Martin
January/February 1999
The Catholic Face of Poverty and Justice
"Catholic writers throughout the twentieth century have tried to improve their church's public reputation. It is not, they have declared, the leader of reaction, the champion of archconservatism, and the enemy of freedom. On the contrary … "
by Patrick Allitt
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