In This Issue
The Churches Mobilize to Save Urban America.
The Challenge Before the Churches
Taking action in Boston.
Keeping soul and art intact
Is all useful work of equal value?
Columnists
As we prepare once more to commemorate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr.,
and to celebrate Black History Month, I am grateful to have encountered the
Delany sisters.
FEASTING IS JUST half the story. To have "Sunday dinner"
implies plainer weekday meals. Holiday banquets include foods not seen
the rest of the year.
The enormous challenge of revamping our nation's health care
system has congressional leaders promising to work harder than ever. Some are
even considering returning to work after lunches.
Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, a group of evangelical Christians
met together in the dilapidated Chicago YMCA on Wabash Street.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Features
Commentary
Aprototypical white suburban mom walking toward her minivan in a dimly lit
parking garage glances fearfully over her shoulder at some real or perceived
threat lurking off camera.
We are created in the image and likeness of a trinitarian God, a community
of three coequal persons: a model of perfect mutuality.
The front lines of the culture wars shifted to Cincinnati this fall, and as is so often the case
in wars of all kinds, truth was the first casualty.
The battlefield this time was a c
Columns
As we prepare once more to commemorate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr.,
and to celebrate Black History Month, I am grateful to have encountered the
Delany sisters.
FEASTING IS JUST half the story. To have "Sunday dinner"
implies plainer weekday meals. Holiday banquets include foods not seen
the rest of the year.
The enormous challenge of revamping our nation's health care
system has congressional leaders promising to work harder than ever. Some are
even considering returning to work after lunches.
Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, a group of evangelical Christians
met together in the dilapidated Chicago YMCA on Wabash Street.
Culture Watch
In 1936, Charlie Chaplin made one of the very last silent films,
Modern Times.
These are difficult days for those who argue that America
is a homogenous culture built on European-Christian principles.
Departments
HEARTFELT THANKS for the wonderful articles on Howard Thurman (December
1993).
I AM NOT SURPRISED by the recent CIA "leaks" regarding President Aristide,
given the track record of American intelligence services over the past 50 years,
but I am disappointed (see "Into th
IN RESPONSE TO your November 1993 issue ("Economics as if Values Mattered"):
I heard the writers asking for ways to implement biblical economics.
MUCH AS I ADMIRE your magazine, I do take exception to the recipe in November
1993's "Simple Feast" (by Carey Burkett).
I AM WRITING FROM way down South in a little old place called Australia
regarding a letter ("Postmark") from Eleanor O. Smith in your September-October
1993 issue.
Prior to Constantine, when the church was outlawed and,
with some regularity, systematically persecuted, the reception
of members was a rigorous and risky proposition.
Soon it will snow but the stars,
this moment, are small bundles strapped
to the immigrant's back. Castanets of the deaf,
they are soundless, thin as the yellowing skins
Lay Volunteer Opportunities
This month's "Seeds" focuses on
voluntary service programs. Each one here is open to
all Christians regardless of denominational affiliation.
