A Dangerous Grace

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Week one: -- God ... or a lunatic? -- Piercing the armor -- Opening the gate -- A change of mind -- Summoned to the bench -- Behind bars -- Week two: -- Secret place for the soul -- Losing your life -- What kind of king? -- A lawyer's skepticism -- How do we know? -- Can we trust the Bible? -- Week three: -- Faith based on facts -- Did man create God? -- Was Jesus real? -- Color-coding the gospels -- Contemporary Christs -- Digging up dirt -- Week four: -- Just another book? -- No graven images -- Free agents -- Character witness -- What do you think about hell? -- The scarlet "F" -- Week five: -- Prophets of MTV -- The age of aquarius -- Is feminism a crutch? -- From sitcom to spiritual guru -- Return of the mummy -- The real Rhett -- Evangelism for the 90s -- Irish hearts can smile -- Week twelve: -- Ambushed! -- Breaking cultural barriers -- God speaks through a spider -- The power of the cross -- A child's logic -- Jesus, the prisoner -- Week thirteen: -- Hands-on evangelism -- AWOL from church -- Reaching today's pagans -- Religion as fashion -- Body count -- Doubting Tom -- Week fourteen: -- Christ and Communism -- A conjuring trick with bones? -- Watergate and the resurrection -- Curing madness and badness -- You were there -- The measure of success -- Week fifteen: -- The seeds of faith -- The wind and the waves obey -- Friend or foe? -- Pepsi-ads: "Uh Uh!" -- Critical thinking -- Darwin's finches -- Week sixteen: -- Jigsaw pieces from the rocks -- Life in a test tube? -- Pop goes the theory -- Whistling in the dark -- Code of life -- Science by decree -- Week seventeen: Natural evils -- Did violence evolve? -- Armchair Bible critics -- Is everything in flux? -- Dreams of science -- My Father's world -- Week eighteen: -- Are animals equal? -- Rat tales -- Sick minds -- The semon and the sword -- Who wants to be first? -- Kingdom power -- Week nineteen: -- Standing on a pedestal -- Christians in office -- the will to power -- Political subversives -- Taxes and Tiberius -- A new status symbol? -- Week twenty: -- The everlasting individual -- The best of citizens -- Christian patriotism -- Quest for community -- No utopias -- Spiritual D-day -- Week twenty-one: -- Cheap substitutes -- Politics and progress -- The political illusion -- The art of self-government -- Little platoons -- Society's scaffolding -- Week twenty-two: Saints and bureaucrats -- A constitution for a religious people -- Not merely private -- Enemy of godliness -- Ministers of God -- Civility or silence? -- Week twenty-three: -- Battle of the crosses -- Don't say that word! -- Equal access for all -- Good without God? -- An invisible kingdom -- Nation with the soul of a church -- Week twenty-four: -- Moral resistance -- The threat of faith -- Revival and its results -- Should we "impose" morality? -- Generic religion -- Real men nurture their families -- Week twenty-five: -- The basis of truth -- Offended absolutes -- Private morality and public policy -- Are you an absolutist? -- True tolerance -- Misunderstood rebel -- Week twenty-six: -- What's a good story worth? -- Abortion rites -- Squandering a heritage -- Privatized liberty -- Donuts and demonstrators -- A mother's ordeal -- Week twenty-seven: -- Germany just says no -- A reasonable revolution -- Measuring morals -- Just let him die -- Holand's Netherworld -- We're on their side -- Week twenty-eight: -- Truth and love -- The politics of childbearing -- Judged by our genes -- Genes and geeps -- Pharm animals -- Governed by our genes -- Week twenty-nine: -- Clones for sale -- The scarlet thread -- The lure of sin -- Quaint explanation? -- Crime in history -- Children who kill -- Week thirty: -- Crime and character -- Crimes without conscience -- Beginning at home -- The demand side of drugs -- Redifining deviance -- Sick ... or sinful? -- Week thirty-one: -- Fighting crime on screen -- Cheerleaders and crime -- "Robbery! Robbery!" -- Chaos in the city -- Your life or your liberty -- Bibles or bayonets -- Week thirty-two -- Degenerating families -- The epidemic of absent fathers -- Ciritcal condition -- Family-time famine -- Beating up on Dad -- Virgins speak out -- Week thirty-three: -- Would Cosmo lie to you? -- Wedding factories -- Trial marriages on trial -- Promise me forever -- When the honeymoon is over -- Love and the law -- Week thirty-four: -- Berkeley's "Naked Guy" -- National insecurity -- Spoiled rotten? -- Down the tube -- Garbage in, garbage out -- Renting love -- Week thirty-five : -- Trendier than thou -- Family matters -- The inmate, my brother -- Bless you, prison -- Radical power -- Forgotten heroes -- Week thirty-six: -- Working chic -- Crime and shalom -- Prisoners or penitents? -- Getting tough on crime -- Electronic jewelery -- A second chance -- Week thirty-seven: -- The great civilizer -- Hawks in the drug war -- The toughest day in prison -- Business behind bars -- Made for work -- Crime's silent victims -- Week thirty-eight: -- The celebrity illusion -- Where I belong -- A holy subversion -- Keeping the garden -- The Christian mind -- Out of the secular sand -- Week thirty-nine: -- Salty subversives -- A transformed mind -- King over all -- everything under the Son -- The mind of a spy -- Our cultural heritage -- Week forty: -- The muses and the mind -- But is it art? -- Driving out bad art -- In-your-face art -- Music from hell -- Grunge and gore -- Week forty-one: -- The moral imagination -- Poetic license -- Telling stories -- A good read -- Lopsided literature -- Hot dog city -- Week forty-two: -- Christian soap opera -- Religion in the news -- "Wasting time" on death row -- Morality in movies -- When the schools are battlegrounds -- A generation of Barbarians -- Week forty-three: -- Educating for ethics -- Moral illiteracy -- Computer confusion -- Values and violence -- The human animal -- Pumsy, the magic dragon -- Week forty-four: -- PC for the play-doh set -- A "sacred" right? -- Little victories -- Whose morality? -- Why sail the seven seas? -- Is life a game? -- Week forty-five: -- The new apartheid -- A new idolatry -- College blues -- When ideas are idols -- Gender wars -- Are women logical? -- Week forty-six: -- Postmodern power grab -- Godesses and Gaia -- Christian colleges under fire -- The rule of law -- Molecules in a meaningles cosmos? -- the 51 percent -- Week forty-seven: -- It's a natural -- The new tirbalism -- Soaking the rich -- Putting thanks back into Thanksgiving -- Lobbies and the law -- Too many rules -- Week forty-eight: -- Our entitlement mentality -- Kids who kill -- Poor entrepeneurs -- Markets and morals? -- Freedom uner law -- The best policy -- Week forty-nine: -- Middle-class welfare -- When the system is sick -- Ethics and the economy -- Too many kids? -- The greatest resource -- Making good tables -- Week fifity: -- Carpenters and fishermen -- Preaching and washing dishes -- America at work -- America's class conflict -- A mountain of sand -- Building cathedrals -- Week fifty-one: -- Euphemistically speaking -- Diversity for dollars -- Let us adore him -- The reindeer rule -- Seeing Mom for Christmas -- Christmas in jail -- Week fifty-two: -- A baby versus the world -- A candle in the darkness -- Angel sightings -- Holiday drear -- Sink-or-swim faith -- Tried and tested. Week six: -- Holy communities -- A zone of truth -- Whe God pitches his tent -- How the church survived Stalinism -- The church is us -- Religion without the church? -- Week seven: Doctrine and dancing -- Of one mind -- The fighting faithful -- In his name -- Costly fellowship -- Hot-tub religion -- Week eight: -- Unjust rulurs, unjust hearts -- Barbarians in pinstripes -- No shades of gray -- Community of light -- Locked doors -- Charity at its gutsiest -- Week nine: -- Body and soul -- Outcome-based obedience -- No magic wand -- Faithfulness, not success -- No spiritual beauty contest -- Holiness in action -- Week ten: -- Peanut butter and obedience -- Believe and be happy -- The pedestal complex -- Remote-control Christianity -- The fall of chains -- More than evangelism. Week eleven: -- When there's war -- The ordinariness of evil -- The truth about sin -- Tears and toilet paper.