BEING THE BODY

Responding to the clash of worldviews intensified by 9/11, Charles Colson (of the Nixon Administration) and a co-author call for unity through organized religion. Churches are the last hope, they say, for directing us away from the certain doom of personal agendas and petty competition. Though the authors believe women should have limited roles in church and marriage, their views are less predictable on corporate immorality, punitive evangelism, gay marriage, abortion, creationism, class injustice, and vulgarity in the media. The listening is slow at first--the writing is distant and stiff--but the program picks up in the second half as its ideas connect more aggressively with what's happening in the world. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 05]