Cover Story
Vincent Harding and the struggle to build a more democratic America.
Feature
Long-term unemployment can mean losing not only income, but your sense of purpose. Faith and advocacy groups can help—but will it be enough in a shifting economy?
MANY CAREER COACHES and job market experts offer this advice: Don’t use online job boards as your main job search strategy. Networking and finding supportive organizations often are the game-changers for the long-term unemployed. Here are a few suggestions and resources:
How an act of hatred brought together two unlikely allies in the struggles for peace.
The San Francisco Public Library reaches out to homeless patrons through an innovative social work program.
Commentary
The only way to defeat the epidemic is to strengthen health-care systems.
Across the country, police departments act more like an occupying army than keepers of the peace.
Columns
Would his first taste of Islamaphobia come at the age of 5 during show-and-tell.
Culture Watch
They think that what they're doing is changing the world for the better, but that's doubtful.
I Beg to Differ: Navigating Difficult Conversations With Truth and Love. IVP Books.
Our culture has managed to turn children's sports into an expensive "gated community" for the elite.
Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, Revoluton by Jason Storbakken / Dorothy Day for Armchair Theologians by Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty / Rich Hill directed and produced by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo / Black Bear by Andrew Belle
Departments
I loved the way Bob Smietana’s “Agents of Grit and Grace” dovetailed with Danny Duncan Collum’s “A Teacha
I appreciated Julie Polter’s piece “The Rich Get Richer” (August 2014) on the growing wage inequality between the CEOs of major corporations and their average workers.
Wizards! Caspar! Melchior! Balthasar!
Why fly straight to Fox Herod? Through
Unbounded night—! Bringing only news
Ripe for bloodletting. How black a star
You follow. Herod knows. How bizarre
A kingly claim. Will he oppose? Muse
Ryan Rodrick Beiler’s photo (“Enemy Trees?” August 2014) dramatically captures the destruction of more than 1,500 mature fruit trees and grapevines bulldozed by the Israeli military. The deed itself and the meaning it symbolizes are heartbreaking!
Web Extra
A map depicting five quality aid groups nationally and abroad.
A video on the audience reaction of protestors at the St. Louis Symphony.
Vincent Gordon Harding and Rosemarie Freeney Harding: A Biographical Timeline.