In This Issue
From sit-ins against sweatshops to lobbying against religious persecution, many students today are proving themselves to be anything but apathetic.
Students on numerous campuses are lobbying for living wage policies.
Students are discovering that, by serving others, the receive more than they give.
Ordinary people could bring about a more just society. But to do so, we have to work together. An interview with sociologist William Julius Wilson.
Generous Christians and other people of good will can end the scandal of poverty. But will we?
Columnists
The emergence of the term "faith-based organization" in political discussion
(and its acronym FBO) may signal one of the most significant new developments in American
public life.
The continuing scandal is summed up in a 1997 Gallup Poll: The Christian church remains
the one "highly segregated" major institution of American public life.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
From sit-ins against sweatshops to lobbying against religious persecution, many students today are proving themselves to be anything but apathetic.
Students are discovering that, by serving others, the receive more than they give.
Features
Ordinary people could bring about a more just society. But to do so, we have to work together. An interview with sociologist William Julius Wilson.
Generous Christians and other people of good will can end the scandal of poverty. But will we?
The poor are always with us. The questions is what we do about it.
Commentary
The price of a Marshall Plan for the Balkans would be less than the costs of indefinite military occupation.
Columns
The emergence of the term "faith-based organization" in political discussion
(and its acronym FBO) may signal one of the most significant new developments in American
public life.
The continuing scandal is summed up in a 1997 Gallup Poll: The Christian church remains
the one "highly segregated" major institution of American public life.
Culture Watch
The spiritual vision of Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe, and Andy Warhol.
By now the Littleton, Colorado high school massacre has become the cultural Rorschach
test for the new millennium.
Departments
SOME THINGS come through planning. We planned to excerpt Ron Sider's forthcoming book Just Generosity, and for Jim Wallis to interview Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson.
