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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.

Feb 3, 2006

The vocation of leaving or staying

What happens when the changes of life pit vocation and location against each other? Comment asked Chris Klein, who helps direct a research study on vocation, to describe when geography collides with calling. Chris Klein is the Assistant Director of the CALL Grant for the Theological Exploration of Vocation at Geneva College, Pennsylvania. Chris Klein is the Assistant Director of the CALL Grant for the Theological Exploration of Vocation at Geneva College, Pennsylvania.

Dec 9, 2005

Social conservatism’s Canadian barriers

Has the passage of Bill C-38—the federal, Canadian redefinition of marriage—awakened a sleeping giant? Will Canadian social conservatives rouse from their slumber? Paul Tuns is author of Jean Chretien: Legacy of Scandal and editor of The Interim.

Nov 25, 2005

Rolling the stone over the top

In their book, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, Daifallah and Kheiriddin promote a conservatism that is an American neoconservative hybrid, a conservatism that styles itself “fiscally conservative” but “socially liberal.”