In This Issue
What does the violence in the Bible tell us about the nature of God?
A Bible study on the book of Daniel and empire.
A 9-year-old's murder tells us much about his neighborhood -- and about America.
The diary of an undocumented student.
Columnists
In politics there is always a spiritual choice to be made -- a choice between hope and fear.
Nonviolent civil disobedience has been a less effective tactic in this country in the past few decades for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is probably that our woes are more compl
Jan. 20, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, our nation's first (and still only) Roman Catholic head of state.
It's often good to have a donkey with you when you pray. They provide a natural antidote to excessive piety. Take my recent retreat day at the Jonah House Catholic Worker community in Baltimore.
Not to brag, but my new toilet was rated Best Flush for 2010.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Features
A 9-year-old's murder tells us much about his neighborhood -- and about America.
The diary of an undocumented student.
Commentary
Financial regulatory reform will work -- or fail -- depending on the rules written this year.
Columns
In politics there is always a spiritual choice to be made -- a choice between hope and fear.
Nonviolent civil disobedience has been a less effective tactic in this country in the past few decades for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is probably that our woes are more compl
Jan. 20, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, our nation's first (and still only) Roman Catholic head of state.
It's often good to have a donkey with you when you pray. They provide a natural antidote to excessive piety. Take my recent retreat day at the Jonah House Catholic Worker community in Baltimore.
Culture Watch
It's a golden age for documentaries.
Extended Format: Five (More) Must-See Social Justice Documentaries From 2010
Poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells stories from the 10th parallel, where Isam and Christianity meet.
Extended Format: Extended Interview with Eliza Griswold
Blessed Are the Organized, by Jeffrey Stout. Princeton University Press.
Here's some 2010 midterm election commentary ripped straight from the headlines -- of 1886.
Departments
My strokes are halting, not like the imagined fluidity
of the monastic scribes, hunched, by candlelight,
over some ancient text, perhaps the Our Father,
Epiphany is the exhibit of Jesus in the world. The early church was utterly enthralled by Jesus, but did not find it so easy to characterize him.
