Winter 2007
Featured
Why I Love the Bible
How a noted scholar read, studied, preached, and reconsidered the scriptures. By Krister Stendahl
Strange Fruit
A comparison of the cross and the lynching tree can break the silence on race and Christianity in American history. By James H. Cone
An Interview with Krister Stendahl
“Accountability” is a better leadership quality and value than “servanthood.” By Yehezkel Landau
Notes on Poetry and Religion
If we do not live out of time imaginatively, we cannot live in it actually. By Christian Wiman
Home from the Diaspora
An American in Israel finds that her hope survives but feels like a deepening wound. By Jordie Gerson
Dialogue
Anything but Simple
Misinterpreting the Amish tradition of forgiveness. By Wendy McDowell
Vox Populi, Vox Dei?
Evangelical voters take stock. By Mark I. Pinsky
Chilling ‘Change’
Do “gay-change” campaigns have an anti-Semitic echo? By Bonnie J. Morris
Atheism Redux
Unpacking the new atheism. By Bradley Shingleton
The Cuba Watch
American religious groups and Cuba. By Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis
In Review
Books
Attending at the End
Chris Adrian’s Children’s Hospital. By Stephanie Paulsell
Books
Absence as a Window
Franz Wright’s God’s Silence. By James K. A. Smith
Film
Peeking Over to the Other Side
Children of Men and An Inconvenient Truth. By Brin Stevens
Books
The Democratic Dilemma
Religion and politics, then and now. By Todd Shy
Shelf Life
He Who Laughs Last?
Leo Strauss’s Spinoza’s Critique of Religion. By Jon D. Levenson
Books
The World Repaired, Remade
An interview with Jon D. Levenson. By Sharon Goldman
Required Reading
A Complex, Brighter Horizon
New horizons for science and religion. By Philip Clayton
Poetry
Three Poems
Troisième Âge
Reading William James
Trying to Read Heidegger
By Michael D. Jackson
Three Poems
Homage to Bacovia
Für Elizabeth
Solution
By Franz Wright
Letter to Father
By Shahrouz Rashid
Perspective
Knowing and Unknowing, Continued
In continuing to try to navigate the gulf of understanding between religious believers and agnostic or atheist believers, it’s important not to set up a kind of cosmic tote board. By Will Joyner
A Look Back
The Matrix of Faith
An excerpt from “Religion Within Limits,” the Fall 1967 Harvard Divinity School Convocation Address by Richard R. Niebuhr.
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