JPII Double. Actor Jon Voight plays the title role in the new CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II
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The Editors 1-01-2006
Parents often feel like theyre swimming upstream when it comes to raising their kids and protecting their family life.
Matt Martson 1-01-2006
Julie Polter’s thoughtful piece (“Replacing Songs With Silence,” November 2005) is a helpful reminder of how influential music can be and how dangerous it is to overlook this art form as a vehicle for change. However, Polter seems to suggest that the power of music lies in its direct engagement with issues such as poverty and war and that music itself may be a “secondary concern.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us that seemingly small things, such as keeping our promises, are as important as big things, such as the refusal to kill.
Rose Marie Berger 1-01-2006
Members of Women’s Will, an Iraqi human rights organization, demonstrate outside the Ministry of Human Rights in Baghdad for better treatment of prisoners.
Byron Borger 12-01-2005
Thanks for the wonderfully inspiring and challenging piece by Brian McLaren (“A Bridge Far Enough?” September-October 2005). This call to genuine care for those with whom we disagree is solid gospel sense. McLaren wears those boot prints well, even though it surely sometimes hurts.
Don Wagner 12-01-2005
Palestinians with West Bank (blue) and Gaza (white) license plates are routinely prevented from traveling on the network of roads built by Israel to bypass Palestinian population centers and connect Jerusalem and Israel with the settlements. I have traveled on these roads and been turned back by Israeli military checkpoints when in cars with these types of license plates.
The Editors 12-01-2005
For many of us, Nelson Good the subject of our incarnation focus in this issue was a fellow parishioner and community member, an indefatigable scheduler of retreats at Rolling Ridge Retreat Center in
Rose Marie Berger 12-01-2005
Religious leaders—including UCC pastor Diane Baker, theologian Cornel West, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Father Paul Mayer, and pentecostal pastor Osagyefo Sekou—were among the 370 people, including military families, who were arrested at the White House in September.
Rose Marie Berger 12-01-2005
Ark-Type: In September, evangelical and Jewish scientists, ethicists, and environmentalists launched the “Noah Alliance” to protect and strengthen the Endangered Species Act.
James Ferguson 12-01-2005
Atlanta’s city council passed a controversial bill in August banning panhandling within a “tourist triangle” that covers most of the central business district.
Rose Marie Berger 12-01-2005
Television history was made in the Middle East during the summer when a documentary exploring solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was aired in Hebrew and Arabic on Israeli and Palestinian stations. It also was broadcast to the Arabic-speaking world on the Abu Dhabi satellite channel.
Rose Marie Berger 12-01-2005
In this space we usually poke fun at religious kitsch, but occasionally we give a shout-out when someone makes a really great product—such as Plumpy’nut, made by Nutriset. In 2000, this 50-person French company rolled out a vitamin-rich peanut paste that has already saved the lives of thousands of children in famine-stricken regions around the world.
Celeste Kennel-Shank 12-01-2005
In the past decade, more than 2,000 people have died crossing the Mexican-U.S. border, according to the Tucson-based No More Deaths coalition.
James Ferguson 12-01-2005
Two recent reports examining global economic inequality emphasize the need for substantive economic policy changes.
Debra Rienstra 12-01-2005
my mother bleeds for me in a barn
she gives birth in a tree as the flood waters rise
she is a refugee
my mother bends and gathers
she pounds and sweats to quiet many hungers
she is a worker
my mother calls for mercy
she forms pieces of sky into shapes that heal
she is a maker
Gilead Ini 12-01-2005
[In “Should Churches Divest?” August 2005], Don Wagner refers to “bypass roads available only to Israeli settlers.” There are no such roads. While vehicles registered to Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been barred from certain roads during periods of violence, the roads are not limited to settlers.
The Editors 11-01-2005
The t's were crossed and i's dotted for this issue with our special focus on books and music when Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf Coast stringing houses, cars, and boats together like so ma
Robert Roth 11-01-2005
Whenever you helped the needy - or ignored the poor - Jesus said, "you did it to me."
Robert Goodrich 9-01-2005
I enjoyed "Marriage and the Common Good," which I think would have been much better if it had included some observations of longer marriages and how those marriages affected the lives of the individuals and the communities in which they lived.