In This Issue
An urgent appeal to the churches
"Think about how much of our lives we spend at work," the executive of a New York publishing house said wistfully to me.
Eight principles for life in an honest, value-centered, competitive organization.
Walking around my hometown of San Francisco, I am always struck by a remarkable cultural vibrancy that translates into religious dynamism.
In prison and out, Philip Berrigan lived for freedom.
Columnists
We had only a few weeks to organize "Pray and Act: A Service for Peace and
Justice" on January 20, the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
I began 2003 in Cuba. It's a good practice to launch a new year with fresh
insights. Cuba did not disappoint. It was my first visit to the island nation.
What follows is an imprecise, and likely inaccurate, interpretation of the prologue to
the gospel of Mark.
Remember the TV commercial where a man is walking down a dark city street and nervously
glances back at two shadowy figures?
Table of Contents
Cover Story
"Think about how much of our lives we spend at work," the executive of a New York publishing house said wistfully to me.
Eight principles for life in an honest, value-centered, competitive organization.
Features
Walking around my hometown of San Francisco, I am always struck by a remarkable cultural vibrancy that translates into religious dynamism.
Philip Berrigan, 79, the first American Catholic priest jailed for political dissent, according to one biographer, died on December 6, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Commentary
Columns
We had only a few weeks to organize "Pray and Act: A Service for Peace and
Justice" on January 20, the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
I began 2003 in Cuba. It's a good practice to launch a new year with fresh
insights. Cuba did not disappoint. It was my first visit to the island nation.
What follows is an imprecise, and likely inaccurate, interpretation of the prologue to
the gospel of Mark.
Remember the TV commercial where a man is walking down a dark city street and nervously
glances back at two shadowy figures?
Culture Watch
I have just begun reading Donna Tartt's new novel The Little
Friend, and I'm rereading the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, which are
a constant source of nourishmen
Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more
than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said.
The genius of American jazz is using an unexpected note or chord to add
an element of surprise when the music goes where you least expect.
One of the many and fruitful exaggerations in Yann Martel's Life
of Pi is the assertion, made by a minor character, that Pi's story will
"make you believe in God." With
Struggle is a universal part of human experience, but hope—though
hard to see in disappointing circumstances—is the other side of that coin.
"We believe in heaven and that Tim is with God," says a
Catholic woman who lost her husband in the 9-11 attacks.
It's likely that the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with
Gypsies, homosexuals, and others considered ethnically or socially deficient) is the most
well-documented and t
Departments
BorderLinks, a binational organization educating people about the realities of the U.S.-Mexico border, has always been good at getting personal without thinking small.
Catholic peace activist Philip Berrigan died in December, only a few months after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Between the Lines
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