In This Issue
As individuals, we have to slow down to find our spiritual center. But that doesn't make a very good business plan.
Why it's time for a conversation about Slow Church.
Ex-offenders confront the for-profit prison industry.
In New York City, an activist group of homeless and formerly homeless people challenges the powers that be.
Caroline Herring makes truth-telling a mission in her music.
Columnists
It's frustrating to be constantly represented by violent thugs and to be asked to explain their actions.
Should America reconsider our open market in bigoted ideas?
With a warm hen under my arm, I remembered Jesus' plea over another empire-ridden city.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
As individuals, we have to slow down to find our spiritual center. But that doesn't make a very good business plan.
Features
In New York City, an activist group of homeless and formerly homeless people challenges the powers that be.
Commentary
Advent marinates us as we prepare to taste Christ's arrival.
Extended Format: Top 10 Advent Resources of 2012
Columns
It's frustrating to be constantly represented by violent thugs and to be asked to explain their actions.
With a warm hen under my arm, I remembered Jesus' plea over another empire-ridden city.
Culture Watch
Caroline Herring makes truth-telling a mission in her music.
Video: VIDEOS: Caroline Herring
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron / Silver and Gold by Sufjan Stevens / Star of Wonder by Mary Lee Wile / The Food and Feasts of Jesus: Inside the World of First-Century Fare, with Menus and Recipes by Douglas E. Neel and Joel A. Pugh
It's a mark of the moral complexity of The Master that it can critique the damage done by demonic religion while honoring the best hopes of its angelic shades.
Excerpt from A Thicker Jesus: Incarnational Discipleship in a Secular Age, by Glen H. Stassen
Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War. Palgrave Macmillan.
