In This Issue
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen talks with Jim Wallis about ice cream, Oreos -- and how the bloated military budget is destroying our economy and making us all less secure.
A little Methodist church has a big heart for the left out and the lonley in the shadow of the nation's capital.
With lower-cost heath care, would I be dead?
The secretive, elitist Capitol Hill organization has cozied up to the despots -- and, in my case, done genuine good.
Poets resist anti-immigration laws with defiance, beauty, and social media.
Columnists
Though the fast ended on Easter, it helped to spark a broad and united movement for a moral budget.
A club owner in Chicago can pick up the phone and "mail-order" three girls from Eastern Europe.
Mainstream Muslims detest the infection of radicalization far more than do other people.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen talks with Jim Wallis about ice cream, Oreos -- and how the bloated military budget is destroying our economy and making us all less secure.
Features
A little Methodist church has a big heart for the left out and the lonley in the shadow of the nation's capital.
With lower-cost heath care, would I be dead?
The secretive, elitist Capitol Hill organization has cozied up to the despots -- and, in my case, done genuine good.
Extended Format: Extended: A Friend of the Family
Commentary
The Utah Compact has good immigration principles -- but there's still a more excellent way.
Renewable energy sources aren't just safer than nuclear power -- they're also cheaper.
Columns
Though the fast ended on Easter, it helped to spark a broad and united movement for a moral budget.
A club owner in Chicago can pick up the phone and "mail-order" three girls from Eastern Europe.
Mainstream Muslims detest the infection of radicalization far more than do other people.
Culture Watch
Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing.
The Better Angels, by John Francis. Horse and Rider/Dualtone.
Extended Format: Interview With John Francis
Audio: Free Music Download!
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press.
"A white man's country" became the multiracial, multicultural democracy we now inhabit.
Bio: Founded Empowering and Strengthing Ohio's People (ESOP) to stop predatory lending and home foreclosures. Website: www.esop-cleveland.org.
Departments
Jesus says, receive the Holy Spirit, whom you cannot control. Diversity is an essential attribute of a Spirit-filled church.
Every gun that is made is, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.
