CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2002

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2002

A Strange, New World.(terrorist attack of September 11, 2001)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... This is the most difficult editorial I've ever tried to write. For the past several weeks I have seesawed back and forth between paralysis and prayer. This morning I had a conversation with a colleague of mine concerning a panel we're going to...

When I Boarded the Midwest Express to Washington, D.C., on September 11.
January 1, 2002... When I boarded the Midwest Express to Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, at 8:00 a.m. (Central Time), I had no idea that the definition of power on planet earth would be rewritten within the hour. I read the paper, enjoyed a nice...

Theology and the Clash of Civilizations.
January 1, 2002... In the 1940s, the most important foreign policy intellectual in the United States was George E Kennan. Kennan, who served briefly in the Truman Administration, was among the first to recognize that the United States could not defeat communism...

The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text.
January 1, 2002... The Christian Gospel of Thomas is a wisdom text, a collection of sayings in which a fictive Jesus instructs his followers (and readers like us) in a new way of living. The sayings are a means for the transformation of life. Thomas is part of a...

The Gospel of Peace and the Violence of God.
January 1, 2002... I rest my case on the rights of desire.... On the god who makes even the small birds quiver. Andre Brink, The Rights of Desire On January 6, 2001, I flew out of the Pittsburgh International Airport bound for the Federal Republic of...

Feminist Judaism: Past and Future.
January 1, 2002... What is the proper subject matter of Jewish feminism? And why is it so much messier than the subject matter of Christian feminism? Our first two anthologies of Jewish feminist thought puzzled Christian feminists, crammed as they were with a...

A Letter to Elizabeth.(regarding religious commitment and biblical study)
January 1, 2002... Dear Elizabeth, You asked me to write a paper about religious commitment and Biblical Studies. As I mused and mused, both terms became less and less clear. I found myself unsure what "religion" meant, what "commitment" is, once subjected...

A Service of Mourning.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (Five READERS, wearing around their shoulders plain white or black shawls large enough to veil the whole head and face. They either stand facing the congregation or, if the service is done in a circle, stand evenly spaced among them.) HYMN...

On the Rhetoric of a "War on Terrorism": A Lecture Presented at Ashland University on September 17, 2001.
January 1, 2002... I am not sure if I can really add anything to the myriad of voices that you have heard concerning the events of September 11. As a Christian theologian and ethicist I don't dare propose that we can make total sense of the evil that occurred. In...

To whom shall we give Access to Our Water Holes?(Islam and international relations)
January 1, 2002... In the Name of Allah, The Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace -- In the Wake of September 11th O who have attained unto faith! Be ever steadfast in upholding equity, bearing witness to the truth for the sake of God, even though it be against...

Translation as De-canonization: Matthew's Gospel According to Pasolini.(filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... To the memory of Paul Hessert The technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition....And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates...

Faces on the Walls.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... We packed two trash bags with old clothes we did not need anymore and wheeled them over to Bellevue for the Gifts of Love campaign, walking like the homeless with all of our belongings past the rescue staging operation on First Avenue....

The Window.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... the window, at the moment of flame and all this while I have been playing with toys a toys superhighway a toy automobile a house of blocks and all this while far off in other lands thousands and thousands, millions and millions --...

Death of a Theologian.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... (With Thanks for J. Harry Cotton) Still warm as, alone for one last prayer before this egg-shell empty husk is taken to the fire, I stretch a hand to touch his cheek and brow. Still warm, although the months-long process of...

Dog's Life.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... The ice was soft and treacherous at dawn this next to last day of the dying year. We left the dog back home to keep our daughter company over New Year's in the apartment off Fifth Avenue, although he did enjoy New Hampshire's...

Conscience Hath Many Tongues.
January 1, 2002... Jayne Hoose, editor, Conscience in World Religions. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, and Herefordshire, U.K.: Gracewing, 1990. ix+199pp. $15.00 (paper). This book contains papers about conscience. The first part is...

Bearing Witness.
January 1, 2002... Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. viii+292pp. $27.50 (cloth). Zelizer's work on how the photographic record of Nazi atrocities has been lodged into...

Religions 101.
January 1, 2002... Khalid Duran, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews. $24.94 (paper). Reuven Firestone, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims. New York: American Jewish Committee, 2001 $38.97 (paper). September 11...

Clarity, Speed, Humility, Courage.
January 1, 2002... The New Testament, Translated by William Tyndale: The text of the Worms edition of 1526 in original spelling. Ed. W. R. Cooper. London: The British Library, 2000, 555pp. $25.00 (cloth). Ian Robinson, The Establishment of Modern English...

The Underside of Reality. (Books).
January 1, 2002... Joerge Rieger, Remember the Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the TwentyFirst Century. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1998. 240pp. $19.00 (paper). Joerge Rieger, God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary...

Adventures in Ideas. (Books).
January 1, 2002... Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason: A History of Phiosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2001. 468pp. $27.95 (cloth). In The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb has delivered a history of philosophy...

A Critique of Dying.
January 1, 2002... Richard John Neuhaus, As I Lay Dying: Meditations upon Returning. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 172 pp. $22.00 (cloth). In November 1996, a symposium appearing in the neo-conservative religious journal First Things incited a controversy....