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Issue #20: Evil

Monday, January 30, 2012

That pain, suffering, oppression, and violence occur in the world is all too obvious. To grasp that the destructive forces we face are evil is not so obvious. This is not because the effects of evil are merely illusions, but because to know something as evil, that is, to recognize it as a force in [...]

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When is a Mall just a Mall? The Complexity of Reading Cultural Practices

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Robert Covolo and Cory Willson draw from contemporary ritual studies and Paul’s understanding of the Corinthian market to navigate the alternative interpretations James K. A. Smith and William Dyrness have on the formative power of cultural liturgies.

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A Sense of Place: Flannery O’Connor and the Local Church

Monday, January 30, 2012

Flannery O’Connor insists that good fiction must be grounded in place; in this essay, Andrew W. E. Carlson discovers that the same can be said for church.

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Toward a Hopeful Politics: Václav Havel’s Legacy of Responsible Commitment

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Author Katy Scrogin uses Václav Havel’s discussion of hope and fear to address the problem of individualism in US political life.

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A Life In The Same Direction: A Review of Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Pastoral memoirs are not a genre in great demand. They don’t tend to make it to the New York Times Best Sellers list. After all, the pastoral vocation, some say, has fallen on hard times and Christian pastors writing about spirituality seem to have lost their influence in the marketplace of ideas. But there is [...]

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