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The Blast is Back
Like everyone else lately, I’ve been thinking about radiation, ever since the calamitous earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March, killing thousands and unrepairingly damaging its Fukushima nuclear plant. Actually, I’ve been thinking about radiation again, because its horrors inspired an essay I wrote years ago, a kind of meditation, if you will, about a […]
Read moreTaliban Neighbors
How do you serve as a Christian in a hostile region, where violence has become a norm, where the news for you is rarely encouraging, where you’re held down economically, socially, and politically, and where traveling just from one place to another may make you the subject of a kidnapping? Taliban Neighbors: Christian Life in […]
Read morePaul Patton (the performing arts)
Charles Strohmer Talks at Length with Actor, Playwright, and Teacher Paul Patton about Drama and the Performing Arts One Saturday evening a few years ago I rather blithely went to see a local theater company’s production of Henry Miller’s The Crucible. Afterward, I left the theater numb. I don’t whether it was the story itself […]
Read morePamela Mackenzie (education among tribals)
Charles Strohmer talks with Dr. Pamela Mackenzie about Christianity, Wholistic Education, and Her Work in Tribal Regions Are Christian schools really all that Christian? What influence can Christian teachers have in secular classrooms? Why are the Western educational models that have been exported into non-Western nations failing? How are issues like justice, economics, and relationships […]
Read moreOpenings
The quarterly “little magazine” Openings was founded in 1998 by Charles Strohmer to offer alternative ways of thinking about our life, our work, and our play from a Christian point of view that was not bound to the ideas and interests of any institution, organization, or religious denomination. National and international in scope, Openings carries […]
Read moreNancy Pearcey (intelligent design)
Charles Strohmer Talks with Author Nancy Pearcey about Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Evolution Last year in the States (2005), a perennial quarrel between members of religious and scientific communities turned into a blistering courtroom battle that captured the nation’s attention for many weeks. The context was education. The news media had camped out for weeks […]
Read moreThree American Myths
Three American Myths Musings on Christians as Presidents and America as a Christian Nation by Charles Strohmer Long before the 2008 presidential election, the only question I had was how badly the Democrat would beat the Republican, whoever the Democrat candidate turned out to be. The slow burn toward President Bush had become pretty hot across […]
Read moreMichael Schluter (transforming international relations)
Charles Strohmer Talks with Michael Schluter, The R Man, about Transforming Intercommunity and International Relations In a time when human relationships between the West, especially America, and the Arab-Muslim world is fast bottoming out, is there any hope of repairing “enemy relations”? Michael Schluter knows that there’s no magic wand, but he also believes that […]
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