In This Issue
Christian Peacemakers on captivity in Iraq.
I have always been uncomfortable with the designation “peacemaker.” “Makers” usually have an intimate relationship with their craft.
The faces of our Iraqi partners showed pain and worry in April 2006 when we asked them whether Christian Peacemaker Teams should continue to work in Iraq after Jim, Harmeet, Norman, and Tom had bee
Tom Fox was profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empowerment.
Columnists
Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
I have always been uncomfortable with the designation “peacemaker.” “Makers” usually have an intimate relationship with their craft.
The faces of our Iraqi partners showed pain and worry in April 2006 when we asked them whether Christian Peacemaker Teams should continue to work in Iraq after Jim, Harmeet, Norman, and Tom had bee
Tom Fox was profoundly affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Features
John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empowerment.
In battered Liberia, a woman catches a glimpse of the reconciliation that only the bread and wine might bring.
Thomas Keating talks about how the ancient church tradition of contemplation can transform Christians today.
Commentary
Columns
Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor.
Culture Watch
How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take in response to the wars waged in the name of anti-terrorism?
There may be no more basic lesson in persuasive writing than the futility of creating a straw man: Sketch a loose summary of an opponent’s argument in order to dismiss it with ease.
Jesus was a political revolutionary—not the meek figure he is commonly portrayed as—whose teachings have been diluted, if not corrupted, by those in positions of power, writes Obery Hen
Departments
She left
with her sack of stones
and one dying rose,
fragrant as Pinot Noir.
While Advent is the particular season of the church year in which we anticipate the coming of Jesus, the word can also mean "a coming into being," an opportunity for old ways of thinking and being
