NAZIS TOOK PASTOR’S LIFE, BUT NOT FAITH
Palm Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of one of the most influential Christian theologians of this century. On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a 39-year-old German Lutheran...
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3 VIEWS FIND SCIENCE NEEDS SPIRITUAL SIDE
Some concluding reflections on science and religion begun in an earlier column from biologist E.O. Wilson, playwright Vaclav Havel and psychologist Carl Jung. Wilson, who believes religion is an evolutionary...
JORDAN STORY A BIT SCIENCE, AND RELIGION
I'm writing this column earlier than usual-on the Sunday that Michael Jordan returned to play for the Bulls. I'd intended to devote the column to the theological implications of Michael's...
GRAHAM RIDES AIRWAVES INTO FAITHFUL’S LIVES
Think what Jesus Christ could have done with television. With the right uplinks, the Sermon on the Mount could have been beamed by satellite over the entire globe. The problem...
SCHOLAR FINDS MEDIA DOING THE PARENTING
Is there a greater joy than being self-righteous about the lack of family values on TV? Ask Dan Quayle and let the bashing begin. Guess what? An advocacy group for...
`CONTEXT’ FITS ITS CREATOR’S SCHEDULE
A newspaper religion writer is blessed with a host of complimentary religious publications-newspapers, magazines, journals. As they pile up, however, I occasionally bow my head and seek solace: "Lord, how...
BLACK CHURCH SAW LIGHT, HEARD TRUTH
In "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored," his memoir about growing up in Mississippi in the 1940s and '50s, Cliff Taulbert writes about his black church: "It was...
`REV.’ WOLFE PUTS ’90S IN PERSPECTIVE
Today's sermon is by Tom Wolfe. As a man of the pen rather than the cloth, you can't accuse him of a vested-or vestmented-interest in religion as he addresses the...
JOURNEYING INTO BUDDHIST EXPERIENCE
In "A History of God," author Karen Armstrong writes: "Effectiveness rather than philosophical or historical demonstration has always been the hallmark of a successful religion: for centuries Buddhists in many...
CONVERSIONS RAISE ISSUE OF FORGIVENESS
In "I Want to Tell You," O.J. Simpson indicates he has devoted much time of late to Bible reading, prayers with evangelist Rosey Grier and discussions about Scripture with Paula...