August 2008 Sojourners
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Cover
Heal Thyself?
When it comes to our health-care crisis, some argue for market-based solutions, saying that "consumer-directed care" will give us more freedom to choose the plan that's right for us. But what they really mean is "you're on your own."
by Elizabeth Edwards
Features
An Olive Branch Grows in Africa
A Kenyan peacemaker talks about the power of listening in the midst of violence.
Interview by Tim Shenk
Healing and the Common Good
Six myths about single-payer health care.
by Aaron McCarroll Gallegos
A Justice Revival
A three-day event features prayer, worship, and a call to put faith into action.
by Elizabeth Palmberg
The Great Emergence
Every 500 years or so, the church--and the world--experience huge social, political, economic, and cultural shifts. What does this revolutionary evolution mean for the church?
by Phyllis Tickle
Faithful Transitions
Phyllis Tickle talks with Becky Garrison, senior contributing writer for The Wittenburg Door and author of Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church, about how to deal with the seismic shifts occurring in ChristÂianity.
Interview by Becky Garrison
Commentary
A Matter of Life and Death
Health care for all is a moral imperative.
by Mary Kay Henry
Leaving Sing Sing
Churches and ex-prisoners help each other find the way.
by Hans B. Hallundbaek
Reining in the Loan Sharks
In Ohio, a victory over predatory lending.
by Tom Allio
Columns
Hearts & Minds: A Visit to the ER
Unequal access to medical care has made death a social disease.
by Jim Wallis
The Hungry Spirit: The Busted-Up World Needs Us
Why do we bear the fractured order of love?
by Rose Marie Berger
Eyes & Ears: Fare for the Family
Christian conservatives aim for--and hit--the mainstream sweet spot.
by Danny Duncan Collum
H'rumphs: I Am (dramatic pause) ... Enviro Man
Putting stickers on cars is a different kind of superpower.
by Ed Spivey Jr.
Departments
Letters
| Redefining Church | Spending Our Future | Beyond Apologies | Sound Giving |
Between the Lines
| Something Rotten? | Brother, Where Art Thou? | Ban Cluster Bombs | Real Product: Bobblehead Benedict | Dorothy Stang | Weaving Reconciliation After War |
Poetry: Picasso Used a Pigeon
by Carol Hamilton
Living the Word: Lives and Fishes
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
by Laurel A. Dykstra
Culture Watch
Making a New Heaven and Earth
Do it yourself--and also with others.
by Molly Marsh
Harrowing Journeys
Film: Take, directed by Charles Oliver.
Reviewed by Anna Almendrala
Unorthodox Orthodoxy
Book: From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again, by Debbie Blue.
Reviewed by Steve Thorngate
The Breaking of the Body
Book: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg.
Reviewed by Rosalie G. Riegle
Charging the Darkness
Book Excerpt: Just Courage.
by Gary Haugen
New and Noteworthy
Guidebook: It's My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School, by Janine Schwab and the AFSC
Book: Women in Church History, by Joanne Turpin; Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction by Rodney Clapp
Book: Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction by Rodney Clapp
Music: Chant: Music for Paradise by the Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz
Compiled by Molly Marsh
Heal Thyself?
When it comes to our health-care crisis, some argue for market-based solutions, saying that "consumer-directed care" will give us more freedom to choose the plan that's right for us. But what they really mean is "you're on your own."
by Elizabeth Edwards
Features
An Olive Branch Grows in Africa
A Kenyan peacemaker talks about the power of listening in the midst of violence.
Interview by Tim Shenk
Healing and the Common Good
Six myths about single-payer health care.
by Aaron McCarroll Gallegos
A Justice Revival
A three-day event features prayer, worship, and a call to put faith into action.
by Elizabeth Palmberg
The Great Emergence
Every 500 years or so, the church--and the world--experience huge social, political, economic, and cultural shifts. What does this revolutionary evolution mean for the church?
by Phyllis Tickle
Faithful Transitions
Phyllis Tickle talks with Becky Garrison, senior contributing writer for The Wittenburg Door and author of Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church, about how to deal with the seismic shifts occurring in ChristÂianity.
Interview by Becky Garrison
Commentary
A Matter of Life and Death
Health care for all is a moral imperative.
by Mary Kay Henry
Leaving Sing Sing
Churches and ex-prisoners help each other find the way.
by Hans B. Hallundbaek
Reining in the Loan Sharks
In Ohio, a victory over predatory lending.
by Tom Allio
Columns
Hearts & Minds: A Visit to the ER
Unequal access to medical care has made death a social disease.
by Jim Wallis
The Hungry Spirit: The Busted-Up World Needs Us
Why do we bear the fractured order of love?
by Rose Marie Berger
Eyes & Ears: Fare for the Family
Christian conservatives aim for--and hit--the mainstream sweet spot.
by Danny Duncan Collum
H'rumphs: I Am (dramatic pause) ... Enviro Man
Putting stickers on cars is a different kind of superpower.
by Ed Spivey Jr.
Departments
Letters
| Redefining Church | Spending Our Future | Beyond Apologies | Sound Giving |
Between the Lines
| Something Rotten? | Brother, Where Art Thou? | Ban Cluster Bombs | Real Product: Bobblehead Benedict | Dorothy Stang | Weaving Reconciliation After War |
Poetry: Picasso Used a Pigeon
by Carol Hamilton
Living the Word: Lives and Fishes
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.
by Laurel A. Dykstra
Culture Watch
Making a New Heaven and Earth
Do it yourself--and also with others.
by Molly Marsh
Harrowing Journeys
Film: Take, directed by Charles Oliver.
Reviewed by Anna Almendrala
Unorthodox Orthodoxy
Book: From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again, by Debbie Blue.
Reviewed by Steve Thorngate
The Breaking of the Body
Book: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, edited by Robert Ellsberg.
Reviewed by Rosalie G. Riegle
Charging the Darkness
Book Excerpt: Just Courage.
by Gary Haugen
New and Noteworthy
Guidebook: It's My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School, by Janine Schwab and the AFSC
Book: Women in Church History, by Joanne Turpin; Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction by Rodney Clapp
Book: Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction by Rodney Clapp
Music: Chant: Music for Paradise by the Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz
Compiled by Molly Marsh
