CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health back issues from June 2004:
An anniversary of ideas.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2004; ... I heard a rumor the other day. A colleague returned from a conference where, she informed me, the word was out that Crosscurrents is now conservative. That was news to me, as it probably would be to the contributors to this Summer issue. However, the rumor jarred my thinking about the ...
Toward a cosmology of continual creation: from ecofeminism to feminine ecology and umbilical ties.(Critical Essay)
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre>It is neither customary nor wise to tell an audience, and leastof all a learned audience, about the incidents and stories aroundwhich the thinking process describes its circles. It is muchsafer to take listener and reader along the train of thought ...
Rainbow children over me: parabolic narratives for Sakia Gunn.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Sakia La Tona Gunn was murdered early on Mother's Day morning, May 11, 2003 in downtown Newark, New Jersey while she and her friends were waiting for a bus. She was stabbed in the heart by Richard McCullough, 29, and later died. McCullough, who is now out on bail, waived his right to ...
Rufus Jones and mysticism for the masses (1).(literary works)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The October 11, 1948 issue of Time magazine carried a short article in the "Religion" section with the intriguing title "Mystics Among Us." Nestled among post-war ads for Frigidaire compressors and Kelvinator adding machines, the piece began: "In two perceptive, quietly stirring books ...
Engraving emotions: memory and identity in the quest for emotive scholarship.
Jun 22, 2004; ... The engraving commenced during my childhood. It was a painful inscription instructing me to live a life without feelings or emotions as a young boy growing up in a Mexican/Chicano family in southern California during the nineteen sixties. I recall numerous men from my family and community ...
In place of the absent God: the reader in Dan Pagis's 'Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway Car'.(Critical Essay)
Jun 22, 2004; ... While thinking about the challenges of both reading and teaching the literature of the Holocaust, I find myself grappling not only with the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of post-Holocaust art, but with the meaning of asking students to investigate the traumatic memories of an earlier ...
Service learning as a transgressive pedagogy: a must for today's generation.
Jun 22, 2004; ... The phrases "curriculum infusion," "teaching/learning anti-racism," "teaching against resistance," and incorporating "diversity" or "multiculturalism" into the curriculum are all attempts to democratize, de-canonize, and open up traditionally Euro-centric teaching approaches in the ...
"The battle has been joined": gay and polygynous marriages are out of the closet and in search of legitimacy.
Jun 22, 2004; ... I am a recovering homophobe for whom questions regarding forms of partnering other than heterosexual monogamous unions first emerged in 1994 amid a "stress break" from exam preparation during my final year as a Master of Divinity student at Fuller-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Then, on ...
Driving while faculty: the religion of innocent domination in America.
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre> It is a hard conundrum ... [this] liberty of the Christian .... It is tricky even in the exquisite analyses of Thomas Aquinas. In Protestantism it has always taken the form of paradox. As Luther put it, the Christian is master of all, the Christian is servant ...
Imperial designs: theological ethics and the ideologies of international politics.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Belatedly, but suddenly with intensity, Americans have begun to debate whether their country is some kind of empire. Most of the world has no doubt that the U.S. is an empire, but now it has plenty of doubt about the kind of empire that the U.S. wants to be. I shall argue that there are ...
Dresden: the fire last time.
Jun 22, 2004; ... A stand-up comedian has compared Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's views on the war in Iraq to those of a recovering alcoholic--as though he were fearful that the mere scent of combat would tempt the Germans to relapse into the unfortunate habits exhibited in World War II. The wit cut too ...
Costumes.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre> My mother made my sisters nuns for Halloween in 1952. By hand, she stitched black serge, carefully pleated flat bodices, starched white linen for the wimples. Gauzy veils attached with pins, my father's dark belts for the waist, their own rosaries. She worked hard on ...
See.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre> He Became still Like the wind before the funnel cloud. Suddenly his arms flailed as if he were a juggler, and when words came they were daggers as he struck her. He Immersed her in his rage with a rhythmic attack ...
In the beginning was the word.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004 ... <Pre> The first time I heard the word nigger I was ten years old And even then I didn't know What it meant But ...
Three-armed woman.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004; ... <Pre> At her birth the tribal elders sought to kill her-- Even twins were viewed with horror- But by now the women had edged their thin bodies Into the circle of judgment: The men were withering young with some strange sickness. When the midwife showed her with the third arm, short ...
The color of soul.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004; ... "And the Lord God formed man dust from the earth; and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) <Pre> What color is soul? Transparent; We paint it. There are those who dye it The black of cruelty and the dark gray of ...
Forgiveness.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004 ... "And he [Joseph] kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; only afterwards were his brothers able to talk to him." (Genesis 45:15) <Pre> When Joseph, crying, hugged and kissed his brothers, Did the sun and moon descend and bow before him? Did pale white stars explode as ...
Eclipse.(Poetry)(Brief Article)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004 ... "And He said, "I will hide My face from them, and see what will be their end; for they are a treacherous generation, children who lack faith." (Deuteronomy 32:20) <Pre> The light Is gone. In a solar eclipse, The moon hides the face of the sun And darkens the face of the ...
We, the unborn sons of Abel.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jun 22, 2004 ... And the Lord said to Cain, 'Where is Abel, your brother?' And he answered, 'I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?' Then He said to Cain, 'What have you done? The voices of your brother's bloods are crying out to me from the ground." (Genesis 4:9-10) <Pre> We, the unborn sons of ...