In This Issue
Jubilee 2000 has surprised people with its phenomenal success. A look at how and why it caught fire - and what's around the bend.
The Jubilee 2000/USA campaign
Church leaders came together to declare widespread poverty 'morally unacceptable.' And they promised to do something about it.
But does it have to COST SO MUCH!?
Steps to getting the funeral you want and can afford.
Columnists
The Covenant to Overcome Poverty is as simple as it is potentially life-changing.
Youthful idealism can grow into life-long commitment to justice.
Wherever self-censorship rules, a real debate is not taking place.
There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to begin a sentence with a
really bad cliche. This is one of those times. You see, words are not coming easy to me
these days.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Jubilee 2000 has surprised people with its phenomenal success. A look at how and why it caught fire - and what's around the bend.
Church leaders came together to declare widespread poverty 'morally unacceptable.' And they promised to do something about it.
Features
Together Palestinian and Israeli activists fight 'functional apartheid' in the West Bank.
Pocket Canons are the most radical approach to the Bible since Gutenberg. Or at least Ginsberg.
Honorable work and restful renewal are both aspects of responsibility.
Commentary
China is the current battleground---as Seattle was last fall---over the rules of global trade.
Columns
The Covenant to Overcome Poverty is as simple as it is potentially life-changing.
Youthful idealism can grow into life-long commitment to justice.
Wherever self-censorship rules, a real debate is not taking place.
There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to begin a sentence with a
really bad cliche. This is one of those times. You see, words are not coming easy to me
these days.
Culture Watch
Departments
Very soon now the light shall die.
The Great World will be rent—
ashes, sobbing seraphim, calves
born with crabbed feet. Rain
I didn’t follow the holy man around
I never sat down to a meal with him
Loving him began this way: water
poured into emptiness
the bowl filling
A rag-tag movement of churches, development organizations, and trade unions, sprinkled with the fairy dust of celebrities like U2's Bono and Muhammed Ali, got Jubilee 2000 off the ground and running.
