The Gift of Black Pentecostalism
African American Pentecostalism has a gift to offer for the renewal of the Christian church and for the healing of the nations. By Robert M. Franklin
Category: Spring 2006
A Call for Readers to Join the Cause
The articles and poems in the Bulletin are not only being read, they are also being constructively discussed. By Will Joyner
Recalled to Life
Marie Cardinal’s The Words to Say It: An Autobiographical Novel. By Davíd Carrasco
God: Chart Topper
If you want to hear folk singing praises to God these days, no need to go to church. Just turn on a local top-40 radio station. Or the Grammys. By Ben Westhoff
Turning Hegel on His Side
An interview with Thomas A. Lewis. By Wendy McDowell
Toward a New Cold War
The term “cold war” has a troubling, ironic resonance as the West and the Islamic East eye each other. By Emran Qureshi
Gospel According To . . .
While Kanye West’s hip-hop “Jesus Walks” can be considered a turning point in the history of black sacred music, the fears that it represents the wresting of the
“sacred” from the faithful are ahistorical. By Wallace Best
Ewe
Poetry by Frannie Lindsay
Rethinking Christian Claims to Universalism
Denise Kimber Buell’s Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. By Karen L. King
The Revisionist History Of Benedict XVI
In his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, the new pope argues that the primary work of the Church, supported by liturgy and study of the Word, is charity. Strangely, his argument barely includes mention of women. By Phyllis Zagano
Reading Rorty as Theology
Eduardo Mendieta’s Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews With Richard Rorty. By Todd Shy
In the Footsteps of Walter Benjamin
On September 26, 1940, philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin took his own life at Banyuls-sur-mer on the French Catalonian coast, after attempting to flee across the Pyrenees. A visit there can be frustrating, but also profoundly moving. By Michael D. Jackson
Whose Judaism?
Why can’t Judaism decide whether women should finally have the same positions of authority that men do? By Jordana Gerson
Three Poems by Michael Lynch
“Storefront: Botanica San Miguel,” “Birthday Across Parallel Universes,” and “Annunciation” by Michael Lynch
The Gentler Yin
Muslim history’s rich, eloquent, peaceful “yin” side, from a Hindu perspective . By Vipan Chandra
In the Garden
Poetry by Karl Kirchwey
Toward a Theology of Sound
In Santería possession performance, “divinely targeted sound,” through drums, rattles, and maracas, as well as discourse about that sound, map the experience of divine transcendence onto a human grid. By Katherine J. Hagedorn
