In This Issue
What's faith got to do with it?
Try to imagine civil rights marches without the spirituals, AIDS awareness campaigns
without the quilt, Columbus Day resistance without sage and drums, South African freedom
without toi-toi
"Multiculturalism" is
a popular culture term used by certain people of color and white
people.
Two very distinct types of culture exist, and both are
active forces in our society today.
Even in Shakespeare you see the notion of the performing arts
playing an important role in the political life of the nation,
even if it merely takes the form of mocking those who are in
power.
Columnists
A dream came to me. It was the mid-1990s. Most unusual
things began to happen...
We gathered in the courtyard outside the First United
Methodist Church in Brevard, North Carolina, just about dusk on
Good Friday.
For salad lovers this is a heady time of year, with early
cucumbers, flawless carrots, and more varieties of lettuce and
greens than a person can shake a salad fork at.
Thirty years after Mississippi Freedom Summer, 3,000
international observers return from El Salvador’s postwar
"democratic elections." Thirty years after voter
registration workers Goodman,
Summer campfires and sing-alongs aside, the history of
God's people is written twice: Once in documents beginning
with the Torah and the Bible, and simultaneously in the music passed from family
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Try to imagine civil rights marches without the spirituals, AIDS awareness campaigns
without the quilt, Columbus Day resistance without sage and drums, South African freedom
without toi-toi
"Multiculturalism" is
a popular culture term used by certain people of color and white
people.
Two very distinct types of culture exist, and both are
active forces in our society today.
Even in Shakespeare you see the notion of the performing arts
playing an important role in the political life of the nation,
even if it merely takes the form of mocking those who are in
power.
Many of my comrades regard Mozart as another dead white male
who wrote dainty, high-priced irrelevancies. It's true that rural
peasants had another music.
Real culture is a form of resistance. It's the music or art
of communities. It affirms a particular reality.
Under what conditions do pop culture images and icons hold a liberating function?
Mozart's Enlightenment was for men; women minded the children
and washed the socks. That offends and angers me, but it troubles
me too.
"The only game in town?" C’mon, Dave! You
don’t really want to give all that away, do ya’?
Didn’t that Palestinian peasant come saying, "A new
game is at hand"?
The reclamation of Chicano artistic life that came out of the movements of the 1960s
has provided the images and symbols that fuel the Latino community's struggle to find
itself.
I hope we are vigilant to resist making
careers out of the most fashionable terminology at hand. We must
keep in mind why we are committed to a new humanity.
God created and saw that it was good. But since then things
have been more ambiguous.
I'm jealous of countries or regions that have a popular culture.
The most successful method of resistance among the Maya in Mexico and Central America
from the time of the Spanish conquest in the 15th century has been the transmission of
religious and cultural
Commentary
According to many political pundits—Left, Right, and
Center—the era of battles over expanding opportunities and
rights—be they civil, equal, or other—is nearly over.
Over the
Many of us would say, if we were to be honest, that we think NBA basketball is of a
higher ilk than monster-truck pulls.
You might not like the Religious Right’s answers. But, on
the subject of health reform, they at least ask some of the right
questions.
Columns
A dream came to me. It was the mid-1990s. Most unusual
things began to happen...
We gathered in the courtyard outside the First United
Methodist Church in Brevard, North Carolina, just about dusk on
Good Friday.
For salad lovers this is a heady time of year, with early
cucumbers, flawless carrots, and more varieties of lettuce and
greens than a person can shake a salad fork at.
Thirty years after Mississippi Freedom Summer, 3,000
international observers return from El Salvador’s postwar
"democratic elections." Thirty years after voter
registration workers Goodman,
Summer campfires and sing-alongs aside, the history of
God's people is written twice: Once in documents beginning
with the Torah and the Bible, and simultaneously in the music passed from family
This issue of Sojourners marks a significant
breakthrough in paper technology.
Culture Watch
Merton's conversational flavor is best embodied by a series of lectures now available
through Creedence Cassettes.
Happy 10th, Utne Reader! It’s hard to believe
I’ve seen that little perfect-bound mag tucked under
friends’ arms for a decade now.
Departments
The scriptures for our meditations come from first and second
Samuel, the Psalms, the gospel according to Mark, and Paul’s
second letter to the Corinthians.
Worship at the Heart: The PAX Community Celebrates 25 Years
The saint descended
From her carriage to stretch
Her forefinger to a peasant girl
Whose face was covered with sores;
Comic Books, the Terminator movies, the blues, and the baseball season opener.
