In This Issue
George W. Bush's theology of empire.
Who are these guys? And why do they think they can rule the world?
In a time of hardened hearts, the story of Exodus is relevant once again.
Mexico's tradition of revolutionary murals continues in Chiapas.
An interview with The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick.
Columnists
Holy leisure and radical hospitality are necessary components for surviving the vicissitudes of empire.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Who are these guys? And why do they think they can rule the world?
Features
What a Department of Corrections shotgun pellet taught me about centering prayer.
When desperate victims in distant conflicts plead for help, can America do more than save its own?
Commentary
The failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has exposed the lie at the
heart of the Bush administration's case for war.
Columns
Holy leisure and radical hospitality are necessary components for surviving the vicissitudes of empire.
Culture Watch
A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us.
Gareth Higgins, author of the new book How Movies Helped Save My Soul:
Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books) writes
about one of h
In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts
comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day:
While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating
lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge—integrating U.S.
When Thérèse Martin died in 1897 at age 24, she was a nobody; most of
the world had never heard of her.
Offering listeners more impassioned spiritual music in four hours than
they might hear in a lifetime of Sunday morning services, "Stained Glass
Bluegrass" is a wonderful—
Departments
Hundreds of years growing on a steep hill, desolate, aging
despite scarce nourishment, they wait for history to recognize them.
"We must re-vision Christian faith as a combative, argumentative, and
emancipatory" practice that seeks "the well-being of all." Elisabeth
Schüssler Fiorenza's words, in But She Said,
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst.
In this issue Jim Wallis examines apparent recent shifts in President George W. Bush's
theological framework and how those shifts may spur or sustain dangerous politics.
