Columns

Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-2003
'Set small goals, and then put them off for as long as you can.'
Rose Marie Berger 9-01-2003
Holy leisure and radical hospitality are necessary components for surviving the vicissitudes of empire.
Jim Wallis 9-01-2003
'People hate this kind of talk. Raw truth is never popular.'
David Batstone 9-01-2003
We cannot give up the U.N., despite its inadequacies.
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2003
Is daydreaming a dose of self-medication in a data-processed world?
Jim Wallis 7-01-2003

As [Jesus] came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!" —Luke 19:41

David Batstone 7-01-2003

Gluttony takes a toll on the interior life.

Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-2003

It's morning in Iraq, or, depending on your time zone, afternoon. Then again, it could be late at night, and you're wondering where the day went.

Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2003
Into the formless void comes the "night of the spirit."
Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-2003
What would Jesus do? Turn the police horses into bunnies.
Jim Wallis 5-01-2003

The American-led war against Iraq has begun.

David Batstone 5-01-2003

Working Assets colors outside the lines.

Rose Marie Berger 3-01-2003

What follows is an imprecise, and likely inaccurate, interpretation of the prologue to the gospel of Mark.

Jim Wallis 3-01-2003

We had only a few weeks to organize "Pray and Act: A Service for Peace and Justice" on January 20, the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

David Batstone 3-01-2003

I began 2003 in Cuba. It's a good practice to launch a new year with fresh insights. Cuba did not disappoint. It was my first visit to the island nation.

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-2003

Remember the TV commercial where a man is walking down a dark city street and nervously glances back at two shadowy figures?

Rose Marie Berger 1-01-2003

At the corner of 14th and Euclid Streets NW in Washington, D.C., many evenings at sunset, the Domino's deliveryman kneels down to pray.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2003

As our nation prepares for war against—depending on the mood of the president—al Qaeda, Iraq, or unnecessarily big words (such as "civil liberties"), it is a sober time in America.

David Batstone 1-01-2003

Zachary Bentley says he's no Ralph Nader.

Jim Wallis 1-01-2003

Whatever Christians decide about war with Iraq, they must do it on the basis of Christian theology.