Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: September-October 2003
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Cover Story
Who are these guys? And why do they think they can rule the world?
Feature
When desperate victims in distant conflicts plead for help, can America do more than save its own?
In a time of hardened hearts, the story of Exodus is relevant once again.
What a Department of Corrections shotgun pellet taught me about centering prayer.
Commentary
The failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has exposed the lie at the
heart of the Bush administration's case for war.
Columns
Holy leisure and radical hospitality are necessary components for surviving the vicissitudes of empire.
Culture Watch
A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us.
In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day
Gareth Higgins, author of the new book How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books) writes about...
While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge—integrating U.S. churches.
When Thérèse Martin died in 1897 at age 24, she was a nobody; most of
the world had never heard of her.
Departments
In April, Saskatchewan's Rosthern Junior College sponsored "In Exile...For A While," a new youth immersion program launched by the Mennonite Central Committee...
I FOUND Sanho Tree's article "The War at Home" (May-June
2003) enjoyably thought-provoking.
Hundreds of years growing on a steep hill, desolate, aging / despite scarce nourishment, they wait for history to recognize them.
In Nairobi, 700 children walked out of school and through the streets
this April, calling for an end to their country's debt burden.
Cistercian monks in southern Poland hope to become the country's first
distributors of an ale brewed from a 17th century recipe.
"We must re-vision Christian faith as a combative, argumentative, and emancipatory" practice that seeks "the well-being of all."
AUTHOR SANHO TREE ("The War at Home") clearly articulates the
failure of the so-called "war on drugs" from the perspective of the drug user
and the drug supplier.
This spring Europe was rocked by a religious fashion war when the Danish superstore
Kvickly started selling flip-flop sandals featuring images of Jesus and Mary.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Catholic bishops in May to
discuss his Zero Hunger Program.
Planning a stint in the federal pen? Don't leave home without Clare Hanrahan's Jailed for Justice: A Woman's Guide to Federal Prison Camp.
In this issue Jim Wallis examines apparent recent shifts in President George W. Bush's
theological framework and how those shifts may spur or sustain dangerous politics.
ARTHUR WASKOW ("Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace, Anti-Occupation," May-June 2003) red-baits one group that has been successful in organizing huge anti-war demonstrations.
A new report from the University of North Carolina's National
Study of Youth and Religion confirms the old saw: A family that prays together, stays
together.
Standing for peace in a war zone is never easy, but it's becoming
next to impossible for Middle East human rights groups.
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst.