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Magazine

Issue: May 2018

Cover Story

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The Power of the Poor

Fifty years later, a new moral movement picks up where Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign left off. But will it succeed?
Betsy Shirley
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Feature

How Churches Are Confronting Gentrification

Loving our neighbors means doing something when they're forced out.
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3 Ways Christians Can Address Gentrification

Tips for congregations wrestling with the mass displacement crisis.
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Augustine, the Mestizo One

How I came to see St. Augustine as part of my family.
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A Humble Revolution

Jesus' parable about mustard seeds is surprisingly subversive.
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Commentary

"Cautious Optimism" in South Africa

Young Christian activists see promise in the nation's leadership change.
Adam Taylor
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Imprisoned by Poverty

The cash bail bond system is undemocratic, immoral, and unfair.
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What Hurricane María Revealed

The massive natural disaster showed how colonialism still ravages Puerto Rico.
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Culture Watch

Dangerous Angels

Bruce Cockburn's long, prophetic musical pilgrimage.
Brian J. Walsh
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The Spirituality of Resistance

Principalities in Particular: A Practical Theology of the Powers That Be, by Bill Wylie-Kellermann. Fortress Press. 
Sharon Delgado
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A Scholar's Faith

The Re-birth of a Born-Again Christian: A Memoir, by James A. Sanders. Cascade Books.
Walter Brueggemann
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The Pastor of Preschoolers

Fred Rogers provided a secure island of love and goodness for the country's children.
Danny Duncan Collum
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What Horror Can Show

The courage of women like Clarice Starling is everywhere.
Gareth Higgins
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Music for Turbulent Times

Bigger Than Your Box, by Joy Ike. joyike.com
Christina Colón
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Love on Wheels

Four questions for a pastor who started a mobile tiny house project.
Da'Shawn Mosley
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Departments

From the Archives: May 2005

Holy Rest
Michaela Bruzzese
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New & Noteworthy: May 2018

Four May recommendations from our culture editors.
The Editors
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Rumors of Life

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B
Wil Gafney
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Crossing the Jabbok

A poem.
Kemmer Anderson
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Columns

The Trouble with Identity Politics

Do we call into question the logic model of identity politics?
Eboo Patel
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I Could Stick My Head in the Sand

Funny Business by Ed Spivey Jr.
Ed Spivey Jr.
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Changing the Narrative

Hope means believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change.
Jim Wallis
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Life Inside a Tomb

Jesus rose in three days but some forms of resurrection seem to take longer.
Rose Marie Berger
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Easter People in a Good Friday World

He is risen, but has anything changed?
Kathy Khang
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