Summer/Autumn 2011
Featured
Beyond the End of the World
After a monastery stay, the author takes a job on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico where he discovers some uncanny similarities between the two communities. By Zachary Ugolnik
The Thorny Paths of Su Xuelin
This Chinese writer’s artistic and scholarly activities, and her ties to other women, were closely related to her practice and study of religion. By Zhange Ni
The How-To’s of Accessibility
Accepting people with physical and intellectual disabilities into religious congregations often has more to do with attitude and effort than with economics. By Mark I. Pinsky
A Jamesian Personscape
The philosophy of William James can be helpful to recovering alcoholics, especially his ideas about “the sick soul” and his affirmation of “the possibility of possibility.” By John J. McDermott
Dialogue
Staying Human in a Media Age
We need to be self-critical about why and how we use different media forms in ministry. By Jonathan L. Walton
Interfaith Moments
Transformative interfaith dialogue is more likely to occur when people of faith encounter one another as fellow travelers. By Jalees Rehman
Praying My Tweets
Twitter can connect us to the suffering world, if we follow the right sources. By Anne Robertson
The Spiritual Ground of History
Good historical research and writing needs to include a spiritual component. By Cameron McWhirter
In Review
Shelf Life
Imagining Greene in Islamabad
Graham Greene chronicled the thin line between virtue and vice. By Chris Herlinger
Books
Deciding to Trust
Hans Küng’s What I Believe. By Bradley Shingleton
Film
Determination vs. Determinism
Determination vs. Determinism in The Adjustment Bureau. By Kevin Madigan
Books
Is Christianity Animal-Friendly?
Laura Hobgood-Oster’s The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity’s Compassion for Animals. By Kimberley C. Patton
Art
Reading the ‘Book of Nature’
“Natural Revelations,” and exhibit of paintings by Susan Swartz. By William A. Graham
Poetry
Fe
By Amit Majmudar
Two Poems
An Evening Outside Cedar City
The Torch Singer
By W. S. Di Piero
Perspective
Intentionally Unfinished
I wonder if it might be possible to make our unintentional communities more intentional by asking ourselves, “On whom are we focused?” By Wendy McDowell
A Look Back
Life Is Short
Excerpts from “The Backward Glance and the Forward Look” and “The Hard Stuff Is the Good News” by Peter J. Gomes.
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