Autumn 2006
Featured
Behind the Intellectual Lines
The political atmosphere in Iran is making it increasingly difficult for the country’s scholars to balance their piety and their academic work. An American visitors reports. By Ronald F. Thiemann
Theology of Fields
In memory, the landscapes we explored as children are the holiest places we knew. By Reginald Gibbons
Private Belief, Public Scholarship
It’s time for American academics to speak openly about their own religious commitment. By Mark U. Edwards, Jr.
Darwin and God: Then and Now
For the naturalist himself, there were no simple answers, and he never pretended that there were. By John Hedley Brooke
God Needs No Passport
Do immigrants feel they belong to a new country, to a religious community that ties them to their homeland, to both? The boundaries are more difficult to define. By Peggy Levitt
Dialogue
Rehabilitation of Forced Conversion?
Are faith-based initiatives in American prisons rehabilitation or forced conversion?. By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Testifying across the Blogosphere
A religion journalist in the blogosphere. By John D. Spalding
An Ecumenical ‘Aggiornamento’?
A time of transformation for the World Council of Churches. By Rodney L. Petersen
Living Lovingly amid Fear
In an age of constant danger, we must refuse to live in fear. By Margaret Miles
In Review
Books
Us vs. Them vs. Us
Ann Coulter’s Godless and Madeleine Albright’s The Mighty and the Almighty. By Ann D. Braude
Shelf Life
‘Mercy within Mercy within Mercy’
Pierre de Calan’s Cosmas, or the Love of God. By James Martin, SJ
Books
Green Religion Needs to Get Greener
A Greener Faith by Roger S. Gottleib. By David G. Hallman
Required Reading
Cross Purposes
When it comes to salvation, there is an open, ongoing Christian discussion, full of passionate claims, intellectual experiments, and pointed debate. By Matthew M. Boulton
Books
Conduct Unbecoming, and Much Worse
Harry S. Stout’s Upon the Alter of the Nation. By Iain MacLean
Television
Riding the Seesaw of Faith and Reason
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason. By Will Joyner
Poetry
Genesis Suite
By Kim Garcia
Three Poems
Song of a Cemetery
A Waterfall
Day
By Ko Un [not available online]
Befana: A Bedtime Story
By David Yezzi
Three Poems
The Fist
Mozart, for Example
The Chat
By Mary Oliver [not available online]
Perspective
Knowing and Unknowing
We should all regularly ponder what we don’t know, and not turn away from it. By Will Joyner
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