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Oct 27, 2006

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In defense of genre

Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek and George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy-plus are both examples of the power of a genre to draw an audience. Is sci-fi nothing more than tickling the fancy?

Sep 1, 2006

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The persuasive power of incarnate truth

An example of unpersuasive Christianity comes from Albert Raboteau, who reports on a white missionary’s difficulty in witnessing to recently freed slaves: “…the freedmen’s distaste for moralistic preaching was directly rooted in their experience of the dichotomy between Christianity and the practice of Christian slaveholders.”

Aug 17, 2006

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Racism: Does the struggle continue?

Can we seriously talk about fulfilling the cultural mandate if we sit around and allow the legacy of racism to be perpetuated, even in the church? Vincent Bacote is Assistant Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, and director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics.

Jul 21, 2006

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Career, faith, and family in the city

Contemplating both the costs and blessings of city neighbourhood and community, with an eye towards providence. A meditation on Cheryl Mendelson’s Morningside Heights. Linnea Leonard Kickasola is an opera singer in New York City.

May 19, 2006

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Skinning the emperor’s new clothes

Today in Comment: a second week of review, as Betty Spackman critiques Kelton Cobb’s The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. What are the religious impulses below the dressy surfaces of popular culture?

May 12, 2006

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Book Review: “New Art City” and the city of God

Today, more than ever, art has become the doppelganger of religion, and every critic and art historian chooses his or her own set of dogma. Whom should art serve? Jed Perl, author of New Art History, offers us a well-researched account of the defining moments in modern art history, with strong prejudices.

Mar 31, 2006

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Marks of academic revival

Is revival a meeting, or a way of living? Keith Martel calls students and teachers to seek revival that goes to the very heart of what the academy and Christian faith are about.
Martel is a graduate student in philosophy at Duquesne University.