Using online and wireless communication to organize large, diverse groups of people has been a key component of the nonviolent Arab Spring uprisings.
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Wendy Holland 7-01-2011
To quote my husband on "The Surprising Power of Nonviolence" issue (May 2011): "Best cover ever." &nbs
John E. Hill 7-01-2011
The argument of "Taxes and the Common Good," by Chuck Collins (April 2011), is supported by none other than Adam Smith, the "father of capitalism." Like Collins, Smith criticizes extreme concentrat
Tom Ewell 7-01-2011
Thank you for the excellent articles about Egypt's use of nonviolence in its successful liberation from the Mubarak regime ("The Surprising Power of Nonviolence," May 2011).
Ed Stockman 7-01-2011
As an agrobiologist and faithful reader, I was disappointed that "For God So Loved the Dirt ... " by Norman Wirzba (April 2011) did not mention genetic engineering.
Scott Kinder-Pyle 7-01-2011
The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
Ray Higgs 7-01-2011
Could Doug Thorpe's meaningful "Living Waters" (April 2011) have been complemented by a fact file on the injustice caused by Israel's water control?
Walter Brueggemann 6-15-2011
These Easter readings line out the new life lived by the community of Jesus. They show, on the one hand, that Easter life is dangerous and demanding.
Elizabeth Palmberg 6-15-2011
Bio: Volunteer with Latinos United for Clean Air (LUCA) in Fresno, California
The Editors 6-03-2011
Every gun that is made is, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.
Enuma Okoro 6-03-2011
Jesus says, receive the Holy Spirit, whom you cannot control. Diversity is an essential attribute of a Spirit-filled church.
Sneha Abraham 4-01-2011
Touched your hem / A thousand times / A face just / Beyond my sight / Space between / Grace, grief
Walter Brueggemann 3-01-2011
Reflect;ion on the Revisd Common Lectionary, Cycle A: Transfiguration, False Desire to LIfe, Can We Start Again, and High-Water Mark.
Ron Young 3-01-2011
Brian McLaren does a good job in "Is God Violent?" (January 2011), arguing for the urgent importance of all of us in the Abrahamic faith tradition to tackle our troubling sacred texts abo