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February 5, 2001

Vol. 184 / No. 3

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Faith in Focus
Ted Furlow,February 05, 2001

When I was about six years old, my dad took me to Alamitos bay for a day of sailing with an old shipyard buddy. As we came about on the last tack to approach the float in front of his house, my dad’s friend suggested that I go overboard, and he would throw the mooring line up to the beach. I h

Books
Robert A. KriegFebruary 05, 2001

Yves Congar observed in Tradition and Traditions that the Christian tradition is a process as well as a content It involves agents who hand something on to recipients who in turn become agents of what they have received Although Congar shed light on this complicated phenomenon he left much unsai

Books
Nancy HawkinsFebruary 05, 2001

My initial exposure to the theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether took place as I studied for my master rsquo s in theology After reading Sexism and God-Talk I remember thinking how grateful I was for her scholarship her theological clarity and her courage to rethink systematics in light of women r

Books
James L. FredericksFebruary 05, 2001

John Thiel who teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut has already published books on authority as well as the debate over foundationalism Now he argues for a more complex appreciation of the meaning and dynamics of tradition As patristic and medieval theology recognized multiple senses i

Film
Richard A. BlakeFebruary 05, 2001

Sullivan’s Travels, the Preston Sturges movie from 1941, tells the story of John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), not the boxer, but a Hollywood director of highly successful light comedies. He is determined to change his image by adapting a ponderous social-message novel entitled O Brother, Where A

Poetry
Terry SavoieFebruary 05, 2001

after listening to an NPR broadcast

 

Out of busses; water-

The Word
John R. DonahueFebruary 05, 2001

quot Cursed rdquo be the one who trusts in human beings ldquo the wicked rdquo are like chaff that the wind drives away and ldquo Woe rdquo to you who are rich and filled now Harsh words for a Sunday in grey February In Luke rsquo s Sermon on the Plain in contrast to Matthew while the po