FAITH & CULTURE
Madeleine L'Engle at Home
You know her as the author of A Wrinkle in Time — possibly the best and most memorable young person's novel written in the United States since World War II. If you're lucky, you read or sampled a dozen or more of the 60-odd books she wrote for children and adults before passing away on Thursday at the age of 88. (read more)
No matter what "conventional wisdom" purports to tell us about the dominance of the Christian worldview in our culture, recent headlines illustrate the formidable challenges confronting Christian conservatives from inside and outside the church. (read more)
THE GOLDEN COMPASS” SPARKS PROTEST
“Atheism for kids. That is what Philip Pullman sells. It is his hope that ‘The Golden Compass,’ which stars Nicole Kidman and opens December 7, will entice parents to buy his trilogy as a Christmas gift. (read more)
Imagination Redeemed to Impact the World A Dialogue with Luci Shaw http://www.leaderu.com/marshill/mhr02/shaw1.html
Need a Long Spoon?
The new evangelical élites.
by W. Bradford Wilcox Thankfully, the publication of Faith in the Halls of Power suggests that the American publishing industry's season of silliness when it comes to covering evangelicalism's influence in the public square has come to a close. In the last two years, we have had to endure such awful books as Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy and Randall Balmer's Thy Kingdom Come, with their crude and simplistic attacks on populist evangelical efforts to shape public policy and the culture. By contrast, sociologist D. Michael Lindsay's new book offers a nuanced and engrossing account of the complex role that evangelical élites are now playing in U.S. politics, academia, the entertainment industry, and corporate America (read more)
Evangelicals Start Push in the Arts
After the 2001 terrorist strikes on the World Trade Center, three blocks from Fujimura's home, his work explored the power of fire to both destroy and purify, themes drawn from the Christian Gospels and Dante's "The Divine Comedy." http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3957250.html
Keeping the Humanist Faith, Sort Of
Why Atheism is Selling…Books
In his June/July First Things article, “Remembering the Secular Age,” along with emails he’s been sending us over the past few months, Michael Novak has been tracking the claim that atheism is back. Or so, at least, you might imagine from all the figures in recent months, one after another declaring a proud and militant rejection of God and all his works. http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=825
The Beatitudes
provide a dizzying commentary designed to turn upside down the political and social world of the Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus and of the Jewish religious elite of Judea and Jerusalem. This is the opening move of a more drastic and fundamental reassessment of political and social affairs, applying not only to its own time but to all future times, down to our day http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8810342.html
Is transcendent, spiritual science fiction—
think 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner—making a comeback?
