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

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

Talk the talk.
March 22, 2002... Dialogue is at the headwaters and heart of religion, just as it is central to human community. Even though the Buddha is enlightened in silence, he engages through the night in Dharma combat with Mara, illusion, and then spends forty years...

Stanley Hauerwas: An interview.(theologian)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... One often hears the complaint that Stanley M. Hauerwas -- Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Duke University Divinity School, Gifford Lecturer for the year 2001, author of over twenty books and the recently published...

Unmasking the differences: Nonviolence and social control.
March 22, 2002... Stanley Hauerwas's emphasis on the social construction of character within a community of particular stories and practices resonates with feminists who also reject the liberal concept of self However, for feminists a next step becomes critical....

A legacy of inclusion: An interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether.(theologian)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether a few weeks before a celebration at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary honoring her twenty-five year tenure as the Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology. Dr....

An interdependent web: Interview with James Ishmael Ford.(Unitarian minister, Zen Buddhist practitioner)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... James Ishmael Ford is the Senior Minister at First Unitarian Society of Newton (Massachusetts). He is also the resident teacher (sensei) for the Henry David Thoreau Zen Sangha and Spring Hill Sangha (Somerville, Massachusetts), which together...

This side of god: A conversation with David Tracy.(theologian)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... University of Chicago theologian David Tracy is an old friend of Cross-Currents. His books, Blessed Rage for Order, The Analogical Imagination, and Plurality and Ambiguity, established his reputation as one of the twentieth century's most...

If only this could be said.
March 22, 2002... To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely--this is for man what running is for a horse. --PASCAL If only this could be said: "I am a Christian, and my Christianity is such and such." Surely there are people who are capable of making...

An interview with Jane D. Schaberg.(feminist biblical scholar)(Interview)
March 22, 2002... Jane D. Schaberg is a feminist biblical scholar, poet, and teacher. She is the author of The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Scholars Press, 1982) and The Illegitimacy of Jesus (Harper and Row, 1987; Crossroad, 1992; and Sheffield, 1994)....

The resurrection of Mary Magdalene: legends, apocrypha, and the Christian Testament.
March 22, 2002... From the Introduction: The volatile figure of Mary Magdalene is so far too big for Hollywood, which sees her as a mix of lust, loyalty, belief, prostitution, repentance, beauty, madness, sainthood. She is the liminal and strange woman,...

In search of god at Columbia.(Columbia University)
March 22, 2002... On the title page of Robert Pollack's book The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith there is a charming drawing by the Professor's wife, Amy, reproduced here. The caption to this illustration reads: "Jerusalem and a cell are both busy...

Stem cells, therapeutic cloning, and the soul.
March 22, 2002... "Poets and physicians are closely allied in thought. Diagnostics and cure (truth and love, in essence) belong to both professions." Robert Graves, in a letter to me, December 30, 1961 President Bush has been this country's most...

A quiet passion to redeem Christianity: An interview with Dr. Mary C. Boys.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... Dr. Boys is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary She is the author of many books, most recently the acclaimed Has God Only One Blessing: Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding. This...

Snake preview.(Excerpt)
March 22, 2002... An excerpt from the new novel A Portable Egypt. Santa, a dressmaker and a visionary, has a habit of working late in her shop and invoking otherworldly visitors for help in understanding her preoccupations. This time, as her friend Miranda (Mim)...

Near Port Royal.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Near port royal. Perched at the edge of the swamp, I listen for a kestrel's cry but catch only the bicker of crows in the crown of a dead buckeye. Booth, also, came here in April. Wounded, a fugitive, he crossed the...

From The Last Island: To Lady Elisabeth Verreet.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... From the Last Island: To Lady Elisabeth Verreet Oval mirror of the sea, age-warped isle waved and cloudy, each angle crystalline and salty. my lens into reality. Point of space just visible, focus of beams ineffable, swith of...

Snow-Town Meditations: Conversion.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Snow-Town Meditations: Conversion I. At sometime, a snow-plow made mountains in this empty parking lot. Seagulls settle camouflaged and singing this morning. The mountains were once kingdoms of mine. I climbed,...

Memory's martyr. (Books).(Author W. G. Sebald)
March 22, 2002... Je mehr von Heimat die Rede ist, desto weniger gibt es sie. (The more talk about home, the less it exists.) - W. G. Sebald from Unheimliche Heimat Major Works by Winfried Georg Sebald: 1988 Nach der Natur (From...

Jesus saves face. (Books).
March 22, 2002... Jack Miles, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. New York: Knopf, 2001. 289 pp. $26.95 (cloth). The rules of scholarship and imagination can overlap, but often they don't; where scholarship concerns itself rigorously with the provable and...

Confronting the centuries. (Books).
March 22, 2002... Richard A. Horsley, ed. Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000. This collection of essays comes from the Paul and Politics Group...