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Saving Punishment
Jim was holding his one-year-old son while smoking meth freebase when the oily liquid spilled on the little boy, badly burning him. Technically, it was an accident; the proximate...
The Sound of Salvation
Can music save your mortal soul?” Don McLean asked that question in his 1971 classic, “American Pie.” Released when I was ten years old, it was the first rock...
Shaken not Smoked
Marijuana is becoming more socially acceptable and legally available. It would seem that a majority of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing the recreational use of pot, and the...
Mormonism Obsessed with Christ
Mocking Mormonism is one of the last frontiers of verbal lawlessness to be untouched by the vigilante powers of political correctness. What other group is ridiculed equally by Christians...
Niebuhr Without Irony
Why Niebuhr Matters ? by Charles Lemert?yale Yale University Press, 272 pages, $26 n The current Reinhold Niebuhr revival provides a good opportunity to reflect on the many gifts...
A Review of The Friends We Keep
The Friends We Keep by Laura Hobgood-Oster Baylor, 230 pages, $19.95 n Laura Hobgood-Oster’s new book on animals is one of the best examples of this increasingly popular subgenre...
New Theology, Old Economics
After years spent trapped in the academic equivalent of a singles bar, eagerly courting any discipline, no matter how unattractive the results, theologians have been trying to recover their...
Culture of Death
Sacred Order / Social Order, Vol. 1, My Life Among the Deathworks: Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority by Philip Rieff. University of Virginia Press, 234 pages, $34.95. Reading...
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews edited by jonathan cottwenner, 464 pages, $23.95 No matter how many albums Bob Dylan keeps recording, he will always be an icon of the...
With Friends Like These
Brozos Press has become the House of Hauerwas. That is not such a bad thing, given that Stanley’s theological mansion contains many rooms. No other contemporary theologian has put...
The Very American Stanley Hauerwas
David Tracy was my advisor at the University of Chicago Divinity School at the time he was developing the idea of the analogical imagination. The way he wove together...
