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Cover
The Burden of Truth
Two former CIA analysts talk about the lies behind the Iraq war and the heavy weight of conscience.
by Rose Marie Berger and Jim Rice
Features
On Fertile Ground
The Food Project grows vegetables, relationship, and justice in the suburb and the city.
by Holly Lebowitz Rossi
Emissaries of Hope
For two decades, Witness for Peace has been sending delegations of change to places of fear.
by Peter A. Geniesse
Dividing the Conquered
Israel's wall of separation.
by Ed Spivey
False Gods and the Power of Love
Corporate dominance of world affairs seems almost god-like. Fortunately, things are way more dynamic and alive than the powers calculate, and their claim to be in control is actually self-deceived.
by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
How is it With Your Soul?
The Renovare movement fosters spiritual development as the heart of social justice.
by Keith Matthews
Editorials
Next Stop, Iran?
Don't these people ever learn?
by Alistair Millar
A Lasting Sting
Is justice delayed better than none at all?
by Alan Bean
In the Wake of a Miracle
Being 'real Christians' in the post apartheid era.
by Linda Martindale
Keeping Promises
Will the world do the right thing by Africa?
by Molly Marsh
Between the Lines
| Youth For Sale | Blue Nuns Go Green | No Women? No Aid | This Land is Our Land | Churches Protest Rios Montt | Can I Get That in Forest Green? | Bush-Whacked |
Columns
Hearts & Minds: Whose Sacrifice?
The beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals are nothing less than war profiteers.
by Jim Wallis
The Hungry Spirit: Damnation Will Not Be Televised
by Rose Marie Berger
Macrowave: What to Do About Spam?
Technology does not uproot the themes of trust and betrayal in our human drama.
by David Batstone
Eyes & Ears: Rebellion as a Marketing Strategy
Today rock dozes comfortably in the belly of the beast.
by Danny Duncan Collum
H'rumphs: Safety First
Without guns, one cannot shoot things, where would that leave us?
by Ed Spivey
Departments
Living the Word: If Not Now, When?
by Michaela Bruzzese
Taking Action: Prisoners With No Crime
by Peter A. Geniesse
Poetry: The Only Sermon
by Andrea Ayvazian
Connections
Compiled by Elizabeth Palmberg
Letters
| Theological Triumphalism | Judging Evil | Off the Theological Meter | Middle East Counterparts | Whose Sovreignty? | Uphill Battle |
Reviews
Plain Profundities
Richard Shindell sings a good story.
by Holly Lebowitz Rossi
Bowling Bags and Funny Hats
Book: Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert Putnam
Reviewed by Amy Sullivan
A Companion to the Spiritual Life
Book: Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings edited by Robert Ellsberg
Reviewed by Julie Polter
Without a Welcome
Book: When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry by Joan Petersilia
Reviewed by James Tramel
Back Roads Music
Music: Mission Temple Fireworks Stand by Paul Thorn
Reviewed by David Fillingim
Requiem for a Nation
Music: An American Requiem by Richard Danielpour
Reviewed by Robin Fillmore
Compassionate Imperialism
Book Excerpt: Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Christian Citizenship by Diana Butler Bass
New and Noteworthy
Music: Go Tell it On the Mountain by the Blind Boys of Alabama
Book: The Best Christian Writing 2004 edited by John Wilson
Book: Franciscan Nonviolence: Stories, Reflections, Principles,
Practices, and Resources by Ken Butigan, Mary Litell, OSF, and Louis
Vitale, OFM
Music: Ohio by Over the Rhine
Compiled by Molly Marsh
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