In This Issue
Christians battle King Coal to save Appalachia.
What does it mean that planet Earth is jeopardized by its supposed stewards, who fail even to wince at our species' cumulative threats to life?
At the end of life, how can people of faith prepare for a good death?
Churches in Dallas engage in the hard work of transformation in the wake of last year's Justice Revival.
Columnists
We need to behave differently, for the sake of our spiritual integrity and the health of our democracy.
If there is one commodity we should think about collectively, it's water.
Virtue is the road map for answering the question, How are we to live?
The nice vendor who sells aromatic oils in front of Speedy Liquor on 14th Street got stabbed the other day. Word on the street is he “got sliced with a machete.”
Frank Luntz sees things differently than the rest of us.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Christians battle King Coal to save Appalachia.
What does it mean that planet Earth is jeopardized by its supposed stewards, who fail even to wince at our species' cumulative threats to life?
Extended Format: Resources on Christians and the Environment
Features
At the end of life, how can people of faith prepare for a good death?
Extended Format: Resources on Death and Dying
Churches in Dallas engage in the hard work of transformation in the wake of last year's Justice Revival.
Commentary
Will economic conservatives join with social conservatives -- or racist extremists?
D.C. Catholic Charities has taken the cheap -- and uncharitable -- way out.
Columns
We need to behave differently, for the sake of our spiritual integrity and the health of our democracy.
If there is one commodity we should think about collectively, it's water.
Virtue is the road map for answering the question, How are we to live?
The nice vendor who sells aromatic oils in front of Speedy Liquor on 14th Street got stabbed the other day. Word on the street is he “got sliced with a machete.”
Culture Watch
Cross-generational blogging about faith and feminism.
Extended Format: Faith and Feminism Resources
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. The New Press.
The multiplex stabbing is the consequence of a dehumanized culture that defaults to sarcasm and nurtures angry condemnation.
Departments
Somebody noticed this quaking purplish spray
hung incongruous on late-winter's bough,
and tied a festive bow of multicolored yarns
to cheer the anomalous blossoms,
Every summer, with bags packed and immunization shots received, thousands of hopeful short-term “missionaries” from the United Sates venture to distant lands with a vision to change the
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C
