Spring 2005
Featured
Cosmic Birth
Creation myths are the most sacred of all myths. Must modern-day cosmologists be mythmakers to explain creation? By Marcelo Gleiser
Are You There, God?
What does it mean both to a writer of children’s books, and to her readers, that she has consciously, deliberately chosen to live out her life as a person of faith? By Katherine Paterson
A Trip Worth Taking
Teaching a course called “Faith, Politics, and Society” at Harvard is like asking for lightning to strike. But there are clear rewards. By Jim Wallis
Reclaiming The Rainbow
Daria Donnelly took children’s literature very seriously, in her book reviews and in her passionate conversations with adults and young people alike. By Wendy McDowell
Theology’s Difficult Position
To survive in today’s academy, theologians need to make some new distinctions about their intellectual pursuits, especially to colleagues in other fields of religious studies. By Bryan L. Wagoner
Dialogue
Much Hope, Many Doubts
Watching Iraq’s ethno-religious factions with hope, and skepticism. By David Little
When Treatment is in Question
Principles to remember after Terri Schiavo. By Robert P. George
American Islam Could Be a Model
Why Islam fares so differently in Europe and in the United States. By Eboo Patel
Ordinary Within the Extraordinary
A paradox of prayer. By Sarah Coakley
From Thai Monks, a Rapid Response
Buddhist monks and the tsunami. By Blaine Johnson
A Call for Quiet
In the public square, in holy silence. By Charles Marsh
In Review
Books
Beyond the Sound Bite
Joseph Leo Koerner’s The Reformation of the Image. By Lee Palmer Wandel
Books
Regaining Sight of Islam
An Interview with Jocelyne Cesari. By Wendy McDowell
Film
Shylock Re-Shot
Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice. By Kevin Madigan
Books
From Trauma to Trust?
Irving Greenberg’s For the Sake of Heaven and Earth. By Ernest Rubenstein
Books
Truth(s) in Fiction
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead. By Will Joyner
Theater
South Africa as a Work-in-Progress
American Repertory Theatre’s South Africa Festival. By Amy Nora Long
Required Reading
Origins of the Moral ‘Ought’
By Arthur Dyck
Shelf Life
What the Mad Knight Was Seeking
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. By Harvey Cox
Poetry
A Speckle of Fig and Jasmine
By Michal Govrin
Creation Myth
By Regie O’Hare Gibson
Two Poems
My Grandfather
Ravensbrück Apple-Eater
By Judith Sherman
Tempus Fugit
By Rosanna Warren
Perspective
The Risk of Beginning Again
A fresh start brings a new set of risks. By Will Joyner
A Look Back
1985
The Dialogue with Islam as One Model
An excerpt from a 1985 article by the Catholic theologian Hans Küng.
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