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For white, middle-and upper-class Americans such as myself the acute threat of terrorism right here at home is something new. Indeed, the media we run and predominantly staff routinely described [...]

Every person under the sun must eat to live, and in that sense we are all blameless and glorious consumers--as at a feast lovingly prepared by a grandmother. There is [...]

A noted Western philosopher, introduced to the world in 1926, was one day sitting on a log when he heard a buzzing sound. He was puzzled and fell to pondering. [...]

Why we should turn off our cell phones and reconnect to a deeper call. Twenty years ago, the cellular phone was introduced to the public with an emphasis on its […]

Some people think 'The X-Files' is about UFO-chasing and urban vampires and government conspiracy. I think it is television's sharpest and most consistently rewarding exploration of epistemology--the study of human [...]

Of the writing of systematic theologies there seems to be no end. One theologian has in fact counted more than 40 commenced in the last decade. Even passionate readers of [...]

Freedom By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroub, 576 pp., $28.00 At the center of Jonathan Franzen's much anticipated fourth novel are four characters. Richard Katz is a rock star [...]

We Get to Carry Each Other The Gospel According to U2 Greg Garrett Westminster John Knox Press, $16.95, 176 pp. Stereotypical rock stars use their fame to get sex, or [...]

Is Stanley Hauerwas really retiring? He has stepped down from his post at Duke Divinity School. But a man of his energy will surely write and speak more in various [...]

My congregation, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, opens its doors to members, to invitees and to those who are served by various outreach ministries. Our number of ministries is all the [...]

This spring my daughter and only child, Jesselyn, will turn 26. She and her husband live in the Chicago area, so my wife and I are blessed to be able [...]

In the nearly six-year run of AMC's Breaking Bad, Walter White (portrayed by Bryan Cranston) has amassed a long catalog of sins. Where to start? Walt is a high school [...]

The novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, published one of my favorite books of recent years: American Wife. Based on the life of Laura Bush, with [...]

My wife I took our annual summer trip to Oklahoma, and as usual we visited a host of relatives. Among the deceased relatives I keenly miss on these trips are [...]

The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, flattened two schoolhouses, left 24 dead and demolished 12,000 homes in a suburb of 41,000 residents near Oklahoma City. It was as powerful and [...]

Filmmaker Terrence Malick is known for his quiet, visually absorbing, ruminative films. He is also known for taking a long time--as many as 20 years--between films. But now, only two [...]