In This Issue
The real question is not whether religious values should help shape politics, but how.
The Broetjes had a crazy idea—to treat their workers like people.
The Earth may be the Lord's but we've trashed the place. The good news is that Christian attitudes toward the environment are changing.
The most effective Christian eco-groups are leaner and less hampered by unwieldy church bureaucracies.
What they're saying about the Human Genome Project.
Columnists
Let the good times roll! President Bill Clinton was absolutely beaming as he reported the U.S. Census Bureau's annual poverty statistics.
A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a "big pile of poop in the middle of the room" that everybody sees and smells but pr
Interstate 77 winds around the mountains of Bland County like lifelines on the palm of
my hand. I cross through the Big Walker Mountain tunnel and know I am home.
Because our oldest daughter absolutely refuses to join the Merchant Marines
after high school, she made me drive through New England this summer looking at
prospective colleges.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
The real question is not whether religious values should help shape politics, but how.
Features
The Earth may be the Lord's but we've trashed the place. The good news is that Christian attitudes toward the environment are changing.
The most effective Christian eco-groups are leaner and less hampered by unwieldy church bureaucracies.
An experimental summer camp brings children together with their dads--in prison.
Commentary
Columns
Let the good times roll! President Bill Clinton was absolutely beaming as he reported the U.S. Census Bureau's annual poverty statistics.
A straight-shooting white friend once commented that whenever blacks and whites are together it's like there's a "big pile of poop in the middle of the room" that everybody sees and smells but pr
Interstate 77 winds around the mountains of Bland County like lifelines on the palm of
my hand. I cross through the Big Walker Mountain tunnel and know I am home.
Because our oldest daughter absolutely refuses to join the Merchant Marines
after high school, she made me drive through New England this summer looking at
prospective colleges.
Culture Watch
In the 19th century, with much sweat and blood, immigrant labor gangs pushed a railroad
across the newly continental United States.
Departments
Poetry is like prayer in that it is most effective in solitude and in the times of
solitude as, for example, in the earliest morning. —Wallace Stevens
Employment Opportunities
Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) seeks U.S.
Full disclosure must be made: Cheryl and Ralph Broetje once sent us a box of apples
after a visit to our office.
