Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: July-August 2002
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Cover Story
Male celibacy isn't the problem here. But for the Catholic Church to achieve a healthy system, things have to change.
The institutional church, on the other hand, is in serious trouble.
Feature
What God and the genius of capitalism have in common: a Bible study on the book of Job
How will the global community develop sustainable social structures for an aging population?
No, the "Battle for Seattle' wasn't the Yankees-Mariners series.
Commentary
There are viable alternatives to war, but only if we organize and speak out.
Columns
I'm suspicious of any language rooted in utopia rather than that of lived relations.
Unlike Mugabe, my daughter would never hire armed thugs to get her way. She doesn't have to.
Culture Watch
In country music, the greatest sins are pretense and snobbery.
Books to talk about over the barbecue grill or to take with you to the backyard hammock
"The Human Right Painting Project," sponsored by Amnesty International U.S.A.
"The Executioner's Last Songs" sounds a murderous note against the death penalty.
Departments
The good news that's meant to be tossed! "Slip It and Flip It!" That's right!
Worshippers at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, in Glasgow,
Scotland, are now sharing pews with Scotland's most avant-garde artists.
International relief organizations in Kabul are employing 3,500 women bakers to ensure
that more than a quarter of a million Afghan school children are fed during the school
year.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his annual New Years speech last year, warned that his grandson would "discover a world of shocking inequality..."
Silence Please. A Catholic priest in Spain has installed a
state-of-the-art electronic jamming system in the church to silence the ringers on
cellular phones.
Clergy, labor, and civil rights groups protested with employees outside a Miami nursing home after the management filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board...
Tapping the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil—which Congress forestalled—would hardly make a dent in the 8-million-barrel-a-day foreign oil addiction of the United States.
In Colorado, ranchers and environmentalists are collaborating in a common
cause—protecting water rights and sustainable land use.
The Christian Coalition of Georgia, along with Peace State Methodist
and Baptist churches, are in a pitched battle to close down the state's video poker
machines.
It's the perfect Jackson & Perkins rose for fresh-cut arrangements—velvety bright true red petals on the outside, hardy and disease-resistant on the inside.
New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams is turning Hollywood inside out by challenging the film industry's harmful depictions of women and girls...
One average American uses 17 gallons of water daily in the shower. South African women
together walk the equivalent of a round trip to the moon 16 times a day to get water.