Culture Watch

If Stones Could Speak

Linda Clum 4-01-2005

As Joshua crosses the Jordan River into the promised land,

As Joshua crosses the Jordan River into the promised land, he instructs representatives from each tribe to pick up a stone, saying, "When your children ask you in the time to come, What do these stones mean to you? then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off.

I Yam What I Yam

Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-2005

I Yam What I Yam

New and Noteworthy

Molly Marsh 3-01-2005

Sources of StrengthLet the Church Say Amen tells the story of a tiny storefront church in Washington,

Sources of Strength

Disarming Words

Kimberly Barge 3-01-2005

A review of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2

A Preacher's Last Rites

Jesse Holcomb 3-01-2005

A review of Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson

A Handbook for Despair

Molly Marsh 3-01-2005

A review of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Ann Lamott

Fallen Creatures in a Fallen World

Darren Hughes 3-01-2005

The films of John Cassavetes.

New and Noteworthy

Molly Marsh 2-01-2005

New Maps

What those 'Low Prices' Cost

Danny Duncan Collum 2-01-2005

I always had a soft spot for Wal-Mart.

Beyond 'Right Thinking'

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 2-01-2005

A review of A Generous Orthodoxy, by Brian McLaren.

Acts of Grace

Deryl Davis 2-01-2005

Faith, God's will, and time. An interview with Craig Wright.

A 'Holy Alliance'

Michaela Bruzzese 2-01-2005

A review of Faith and Feminism: a Holy Alliance, by Helen Lakelly Hunt.

Better Living Through Technology

Danny Duncan Collum 1-01-2005

Turning on to life by turning off the box.

Extreme Community

Julie Polter 1-01-2005

A glimpse of grace and abundance from - of all things - reality TV.

Creating the Beloved Community

Charles Marsh 1-01-2005

An excerpt of the book: The Beloved Community

'Saint' Dorothy

Jim Forest 1-01-2005

Book Review: Dorothy Day: Portaits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books: 2003).

A Reformed System?

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 1-01-2005

Book Review: American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare (Viking: 2004).

New and Noteworthy

Molly Marsh 1-01-2005

Economic Oppression

Pledging Allegiance to the Imagination

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-2004

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42502 (b&w film copy neg.)

Richard Wright was a political activist, but his loyalty was to his art.

Replacing Hatred with Hope

Rose Marie Berger 11-01-2004

Swanee Hunt,

Swanee Hunt, founder of Women Waging Peace, spoke with Sojourners Rose Marie Berger about her book This Was Not Our War and the ways women are engaged in peace processes in conflict-ridden countries.

Sojourners: What got you involved in Bosnia?