I read with relish Walter Brueggemann ("'Come, Rejoice with Me,'" September-October 2010) on new life and healing.
Departments
Bach wrote his solo cello suites as études, not for performance./
Imagine, the arpeggios of the first prelude, forever private, /
Thank you for the excellent feature article on the reality of sex trafficking of minors in Atlanta ("Selling Our Children," by Letitia Campbell, August 2010).
During November we reach the conclusion of the church year. We remember our dead and ponder the God of life. We begin Advent and the season of alert waiting for the newness that God will give.
I enjoyed reading Danny Duncan Collum's article ("Why Glenn Beck Hates Community Organizers").
The sidebar accompanying "Why Glenn Beck Hates Community Organizers" (by Danny Duncan Collum, September-October 2010) mentions how organizers have moved beyond Saul Alinsky’s tactic of "makin
Your article "The Persistence of Patriarchy" (by Anne Eggebroten, July 2010) said that at Grace Community Church "God is male, all the pastors, deacons, and elders are male, and women are taught to
His friend Martha's making soup, because you still /
have to eat. Meanwhile, back in the Garden /
It is sad to me that Jim Wallis’ editorial on the Arizona immigration law (“Is Christian Ministry Illegal in Arizona?” July 2010) said nothing about reconciliation.
I very much appreciated “The Art of Dying” by Lisa Sowle Cahill (June 2010).
I live in Los Angeles and work among progressively minded folks (Jesus-following and not). During and since the Proposition 8 vote, I have found a great deal of secular commentary on gay marriage.
No, nothing,
she says, that is not God’s, and we approach
a crow ripping the entrails
of a truck-crushed fox, and the crow flees
In her generally fine article, Lisa Sowle Cahill states, “euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable answer to the stress of human death.”
David Cortright calls for realism in his excellent “How to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons” (May 2010), but he hardly mentions the role our war industry/military/congressional alliance
Thank you for the recent John Fea essay ("Those Who Will Not Learn from History," May 2010) on the educational lunacy going on in Texas.
The hospital chaplain who sits in the room of a sick child
in Chicago and brings the child to God—not with words
but by her quiet presence.
I was quoted by Dr. Soong-Chan Rah and Jason Mach in “Is the Emerging Church for Whites Only?” (May 2010).
Your article "Destroying West Virginia" (Onleilove Alston, June 2010) tore at me.