Spring/Summer 2009
Featured
Disobedient Ancestors
Québec’s priests, tricksters, and ‘runners-of-the-woods’ as seen through one family’s history. By D. Y. Béchard
When Child Soldiers Become Filmmakers
The frontlines of the Colombian civil war may seem an unlikely place for children to reflect on ethics, but with cameras in hand, they reveal a world where evil has become normal. By Kurt Shaw
Life in a Godless Place
New religious immigrants are challenging the resolute secularism of Québec. By Nicolas Langelier
O Thou Mastering Light
For the believer, spiritual innocence remains the only condition in which intellectual truth can occur, and wonder is the precondition for all wisdom. By Christian Wiman
Listening to the Small Voice
With rising numbers of orphans worldwide, it is time to develop a theology that places their concerns at the center. By Elizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi
Dialogue
Good Samaritans in a World Economy
A Christian vision of neighborly obligation is more important than ever. By Douglas A. Hicks and Mark Valeri
An Uncomfortable Mormon
Recent events have countered the hope that anti-Mormonism in American culture was thawing. By Taylor Petrey
Faith in the Face of Abuse
Religious leaders need to be helpful to victims of domestic violence. By Nancy E. Nienhuis
Obama’s High Wire
Barack Obama’s interfaith approach to public religion holds risk and opportunity. By Matthew Weiner and Varun Soni
In Review
Required Reading
Ethics and Vulnerability in Watchmen
Ethics and the many dimensions of vulnerability interweave in Watchmen. By Jonathan Schofer
Books
Young Evangelicals Rock
Christian youth culture in Eileen Luhr’s Witnessing Suburbia. By Amy Sullivan
Film
A Homeland Imagined and Consumed
Swades: A nonresident Indian rediscovers ‘home.’ By Richard Delacy
Poetry
Feverish
By Joanna Klink
Owl in Retrograde
By Paula Bohince
Darkling
By Paula Bohince
Perspective
The Stories within Our Stories
Narratives, and certain narrative styles, can be used as weapons as much as they are tools of revelation. By Wendy McDowell
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