In This Issue
Christian Twenty Somethings Challenge the Stereotypes.
"Peace is our Profession" proclaims the billboard at
the gate of the Air Force base where I was born in 1966.
Faith is for me a mix of intellect straining to understand
God, my senses, and what Van Morrison calls "the
inarticulate speech of the heart." Music, the water and
mountains of my Puget Sound ho
The majority of Generation X Latinos perceive that our faith
sects (both Catholic and Protestant) have little to say about the
issues that affect us most: technology-induced future shock, a
nati
I grew up in rural Mississippi, a black girl who lived
"out in the booneys," fairly isolated from peers
outside school.
Columnists
What if, in the beginning, President George Bush had stood
next to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in front of the whole
world, and pledged unequivocal U.S.
Someday I would like to see a cranberry harvest: crimson fruit floating
on flooded coastal fields, skimmed off like a school of tropical
fish.
"And so the disciples returned to their own
homes..." —John 20:10
It started with a silence, not a noise. The kind of silence
that makes a parent sit bolt upright in his bed; an unnatural
awakening, a feeling of...something wrong. It was 3 a.m.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
"Peace is our Profession" proclaims the billboard at
the gate of the Air Force base where I was born in 1966.
Faith is for me a mix of intellect straining to understand
God, my senses, and what Van Morrison calls "the
inarticulate speech of the heart." Music, the water and
mountains of my Puget Sound ho
The majority of Generation X Latinos perceive that our faith
sects (both Catholic and Protestant) have little to say about the
issues that affect us most: technology-induced future shock, a
nati
I grew up in rural Mississippi, a black girl who lived
"out in the booneys," fairly isolated from peers
outside school.
To be a married couple in our 20s and Christian means
exploring options and making choices for our future together. One
of these choices is a commitment to intentional community.
The Body of Christ is the incarnation
Of the One through whom the world was made,
The image of the invisible God,
Shaping the spinning dust, an elemental dance into forms.
This radical Jesus, this social gospel, this promise of
liberation are always and forever in the back of my mind.
Sometimes I feel as though I do not have time for God. In some
ways, this is the legacy that has been passed on to my
generation.
When I first heard the phrase "Generation X," I
thought it was in reference to a new generation of black youth
who were moved to thought, dialogue, and action by Spike Lee's
1992 cinematic produ
I have grown weary of the stereotypes and false representation of my generation—a generation that (believe it or not) gives me great hope.
The fax machine said,
White. Whiner.
Urban. Slacker.
Educated. Hopeless
Faithless?
We all need, even crave, a way to make sense of our lives
and to bring unity to our daily existence.
Permeated by its own brand of consumerism, church-ianity
force-feeds me a conditional message, requiring my allegiance to
authority and beliefs, and masks it all as "faith." Our
obsession with o
On a cold, piney evening last November on the Day of the
Dead, residents of the Guatemalan town of Santiago were holding a
night-long vigil in the town cemetery.
Features
MINNEAPOLIS-An early hint of the Christian Right's resurgence
in electoral politics came in the Minnesota spring caucuses.
Across the country, the Religious Right has showed its
strength in a remarkable series of recent victories. In the past
few months, the Christian Right has:
Commentary
The occupation of Haiti marks a new, hopeful era in U.S.
relations with our neighbors in this hemisphere, signaling the
birth of the "Clinton Doctrine" under which American
power lines up agains
Our faith has to be alive and light fires within our
confused and fragile hearts or it is as meaningless as
yesterday’s E-mail.
The real story at the U.N. conference on population and development in Cairo this fall was the unprecedented emphasis on the empowerment of women.
A tense, cautious hope for a peaceful future in Northern
Ireland emerged with the cease-fire called on August 31 by the
Irish Republican Army, ending its 25-year armed campaign against
the Briti
Columns
What if, in the beginning, President George Bush had stood
next to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in front of the whole
world, and pledged unequivocal U.S.
Someday I would like to see a cranberry harvest: crimson fruit floating
on flooded coastal fields, skimmed off like a school of tropical
fish.
"And so the disciples returned to their own
homes..." —John 20:10
It started with a silence, not a noise. The kind of silence
that makes a parent sit bolt upright in his bed; an unnatural
awakening, a feeling of...something wrong. It was 3 a.m.
Culture Watch
Departments
God is working God’s purpose out/As year succeeds to
year
God is working God’s purpose out/And the time is drawing
near
An ad hoc group of Sojourners staffers in their 20s spent many long afternoon meetings brainstorming, arguing, shuffling through essays, and wrangling toward consensus to produce our cover feature on
