In This Issue
How these anxious and ambiguous days might offer up the most holy of gifts.
Apocalypse grabs us by the shoulders and says, 'Look at what matters in life.'
Theologians of nonviolence wrestle with how to resist terrorism.
Some people think that if you have a position of Christian nonviolence, you don’t have anything to say because you’re excluded from making discriminating political judgments.
The most significant ways—both short and long term—to deal with the sources of terrorism will emerge more from within the circles that are close to it rather than from sources that depe
Columnists
Those of you in the hinterlands—when you’re not taking care of your
hinter—are probably wondering what life is like now in Washington, D.C., the
nation’s capital, the most
Table of Contents
Cover Story
How these anxious and ambiguous days might offer up the most holy of gifts.
Some people think that if you have a position of Christian nonviolence, you don’t have anything to say because you’re excluded from making discriminating political judgments.
The most significant ways—both short and long term—to deal with the sources of terrorism will emerge more from within the circles that are close to it rather than from sources that depe
There’s a trap that I’d call the Bonhoeffer assumption. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
was studying at Union Seminary in New York.
Features
Shrimp feasts, rifle training, and jail time: The peaks and perils of growing up with activist parents.
"Whenever people discover that they have rights, they have the responsibility to claim them."—John XXIII, "Pacem in Terris"
Commentary
Columns
Those of you in the hinterlands—when you’re not taking care of your
hinter—are probably wondering what life is like now in Washington, D.C., the
nation’s capital, the most
Culture Watch
The song has again become a vital statement of hope and even a resource for resistance.
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological
Discourse, by Elizabeth Johnson (Crossroad/Herder & Herder).
Friends, this song is called "I Heard an Owl," and it was
written two days after the Sept. 11 tragedy.
When people think of Jean Vanier, certain impressions come to mind:
member of one of Canada’s most respected families, author, seasoned spiritual guide,
founder of the L&
Understanding Islam, by Thomas W. Lippman, is a thorough history of Islam and its
adherents from a geopolitical perspective.
The term reconciliation carries such a chord of optimism; it conjures
images of issues resolved and friendships re-established. But it’s usually wrenching
work.
Departments
The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the
bleakness of our sinfulness.
The times are strange and uncertain. So we are responding the same way we would at any other time: By searching our souls, with the assistance of Kathleen Norris and Richard Rohr, OFM.
