As I walked through a Chicago park three weeks ago, I poked fun at the small entourage of protesters, slightly outpacing us, making a relatively unintelligible comment on greed and corporate corruption. Now I find out I was making fun of what’s become a global movement. Occupy Wall Street, which… [more]
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PBS’ ‘Prohibition’ and the complexity of sin
The new Ken Burns series "Prohibition" aired recently on PBS. (If you missed it, it’s streaming on a number of services and PBS' website.) I was excited to watch it, especially because I had done some reading on the history of the 1920s as part of my dissertation research. I… [more]
Thanksgiving and grace in the Great White North
The story behind the first Thanksgiving celebration in Canada is a simple one. In 1578, English explorer Martin Frobisher set out to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean ... and failed. He then threw a formal celebration - a feast - in what is now Newfoundland to give… [more]
Marvin Gaye’s radical relevance
Friends and previous housemates in Michigan might recall my advocacy, during dinner parties and other events, of a certain album. Listening to it twice in its entirety on a recent road trip, I was reminded of the radical relevance of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 creative breakthrough, "What’s Going On." On a… [more]
The 9/11 Memorial and healing through architecture
Dan Euser, a Christian landscape architect, says he experienced God’s hand and grace at work while consulting on the design of two fountains of cleansing, cascading water that are a key part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Located on the 16-acre site in New York City where… [more]
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Paul Sherratt If Dickens wrote (A Christmas Carol) today he would change the emphasis on ignorance to an emphasis on apathy. For it is apathy which we Christians fight against more than ignorance in the 21st century.
Charles Dickens and tales of Providence
Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations