Sojourners Magazine back issues from May 2002:
Inside story.(Sojourner)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 01, 2002 ... It might seem that "globalization" didn't exist before the widely publicized protests in Seattle during the November 1999 WTO meetings. But economist Richard Parker asserts that it was around a little bit earlier than that--say, half a million years ago, when our prehistoric ancestors ...
Time to come to Washington.(social justice lobbying 2002)(Statistical Data Included)(Editorial)
May 01, 2002; ... For those who care about poverty in America, the coming months are a critical time, a turning point similar to the New Deal of the 1930s or the War on Poverty in the 1960s. Now, as then, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people. It is a time for people of faith to speak, ...
On the road to Emmaus. (Poetry).(Poem)
May 01, 2002; ... <Pre> On the Road to Emmaus I once met a woman who--in a frenzy of wild praiseand to fight the devil--ate glass.Not shot glasses, juice glasses,or tumblers; not pub pintsor goblets, but 100 wattincandescent bulbs--filamentand all. Even energy ...
Yellow light on green travel. (Ecotourism).(United Nations proclaims 2002 International Year of Ecotourism)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Since no one wants to be Chevy Chase in the National Lampoon's Vacation series, it has become hip to be an eco-tourist: a responsible traveler, aiming to conserve the environment and contribute to the well-being of local people. It's become so popular that the United Nations proclaimed ...
Peaceable kingdom sighted. (Between the Lines).(ambassadorial cows are crossing Eritrea and Ethiopia border)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... In our ongoing coverage of the bovine peace movement: Reuters radio revealed that ambassadorial cows are crossing the highly militarized border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. "A town commissioner arrived a few days ago with nine cows that had wandered over, so we escorted them back," said a ...
9-11 relatives visit Afghanistan. (Enemies).(Peaceful Tomorrow)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Family members of Sept. 11 victims traveled to Afghanistan last January to meet their counterparts--families who were the victims of U.S. bombings. The delegation was organized by the San Francisco-based nonprofit group Global Exchange to investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on civilians ...
Whenever Muslims and Christians are thrown against one another, neither Christianity nor Islam wins. (Between the Lines).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... "Whenever Muslims and Christians are thrown against one another, neither Christianity nor Islam wins. It is the poor, Christians and ...
Kids and sex. (Between the Lines).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Teen pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates have declined in the United States since 1991. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy lists 10 rules for effective sex education programs. 1. Train peer leaders. 2. Longer programs are better than shorter. ...
Just do it. (Between the Lines).(Friedensdorf, Germany provides health care to Afghanistan's wounded children)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Friedensdorf, the international peace village in Germany, brought 8-year-old Mohammad Rahim and 30 other children from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Dusseldorf, Germany, last December for medical treatment. Rahim and his sister were outside collecting leaves ...
Israel's Defense Forces: "no more". (Refuseniks).(sign peace pledge)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 01, 2002; ... More than 320 members of the Israeli Defense Forces have signed a pledge refusing "to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people" through "missions of occupation and oppression" against Palestinians. Though they consider the military defense of the State of Israel to be ...
Little mud hut. (News Bites).(Caritas Internationalis building homes with Afghanistan refugees)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Little Mud Hut. Caritas International is building 425 adobe homes for Afghan refugees. Construction materials are mainly local clay and water ....
Back to the future. (News Bites).(Old Catholic Church and women's ordination)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Back to the Future. Mary Ramerman, a Roman Catholic lay woman, was ordained as a priest by Peter Hickman (formerly a Baptist minister) who is a bishop of the Old Catholic ...
Reality bytes. (News Bites).(computer usage amongst teenaged girls vs. women in professional technology workforce in the United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 01, 2002; ... * Reality Bytes. Teen girls use computers 2 percent more than their male counterparts, and 88 percent of teen girls use them for schoolwork (compared to 71 percent of boys). However, ...
Digging deep. (News Bites).(Trinity Episcopal Church installs geothermal wells heating system)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Digging Deep. Boston's Trinity Episcopal church will become one of the first churches in the country to use environmentally safe and sustainable geothermal wells to heat and cool its buildings. ...
Crime pays. (News Bites).(Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear weapons plant awarded)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Crime Pays. BWXT and Bechtel, managers of the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee, got a $16 million reward from the Department of ...
Ties that bind. (News Bites).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Ties That Bind. In a high profile meeting last December between Iran's judiciary chief and Sudan's ...
Trading places. (News Bites).(Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie volunteers to trade sentences with woman accused of adultery in Nigeria)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Trading Places. Nigerian Catholic archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie volunteered to die in place of a woman condemned to ...
Tarnished gold. (News Bites).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Tarnished Gold. Who dressed those Olympic torchbearers? While they ran for many good causes, they ...
Obey your thirst. (News Bites).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * Obey Your Thirst. Ad masters have spun bottled water as a healthy drink, but U.S. standards for tap water are more rigorous than those for bottled water ....
Good neigbors. (Between the Lines).(Council on American-Islamic Relations )(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Southern California has launched a billboard public awareness campaign promoting good will between Muslims and their neighbors ....
Good drug smugglers? (Africa).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The French agency Doctors Without Borders and the South African AIDS activist group Treatment Action Campaign are smuggling cheaper generic versions of three anti-retroviral AIDS drugs from Brazil into South Africa, flouting local patent protection laws. "We have seen first-hand that these ...
The monks of malt. (Real Product).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Since 1455, the Benedictine monks of the Kloster Andechs monastery, situated in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, have dedicated themselves to brewing a superior beer. Andechs has never ...
Glocalization (say what?). (Between the Lines).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... McDonald's 29,000 restaurants in 120 countries make it the largest fast food franchise in the $112 billion-a-year industry. "Glocalization" is when a global corporate giant attempts to appear like a locally owned business. Here are a few things to ponder with your fries. ...
Fun with facts. (Between the Lines).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can ...
Lust in Las Vegas. (XXX).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... There has always been crossover from Saturday night to Sunday morning, but a Christian porn site? Mike Foster and Craig Gross, founders of Web site www.xxxchurch.com, definitely controlled the buzz when they set up a booth at the 2002 Adult Entertainment Expo--the X-rated film industry's ...
Building supplies. (Resources).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... * From a Maine potato farmer to a Hawaiian banana producer, The New American Farmer profiles farms and farmers across the United States and reveals the effects of innovative farming practices on profitability, quality of life, rural communities, and the environment. Order this $10, ...
Crossing the nuclear threshhold: just exactly how are nuclear weapons supposed to help us wipe out terrorism? (Mass Destruction).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Sept. 11 has changed many things, but few of us expected it to bring back nuclear weapons. The Pentagon's recently leaked "Nuclear Posture Review" is breathtaking in its assumptions and prescriptions. Reversing more than two decades when nuclear weapons were seen as a last ...
Sins of the fathers: the deepest guilt is the church's. (Sex Crimes).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Among the many sad notes that have been played in regard to the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal, here's one that points to the depth of the church's disgrace: Various media outlets reported that, "prompted by the scandal," dioceses across the country announced the firing of dozens ...
A new Farrakhan? The Nation of Islam leans toward the mainstream. (Commentary).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... In the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedies, the U.S. media has focused much attention on Islamic people of foreign descent. But what about the "homegrown" variety--the Nation of Islam? What's been happening in the organization of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Louis Farrakhan? In ...
Why Daniel Pearl died; pursuing truth is always a risky venture. (Commentary).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The tributes are worldwide and legion; by all accounts Daniel Pearl was a funny, intelligent, and compassionate guy, possessed of a fair mind. His 12-year career with The Wall Street Journal took him to ports throughout the world. He also occasionally played fiddle with the Big Hillbilly ...
Clean your plate. (Snapshot).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 01, 2002 ... Each year, up to one-fifth of America's food--an estimated 130 pounds per person--ends up in landfills. 49 million: Number of people who could be fed with America's wasted food. ...
A moment of triumph: it takes real faith to make change happen. (Campaign Finance).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The effort to end unlimited campaign contributions is a fundamental civil rights issue, a chance for people who elect our leaders to take back power from those who give them money. While it is clear what the campaign finance reform movement opposes, we need to make it just as clear what we ...
You are what you owe. (Trends).(getting rid of personal debt)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Want some free financial consultation? It wont take more than a few seconds, I promise. I won't need to review your bank statements, nor even glance at a balance sheet of your assets and liabilities. Yet for at least 90 percent of you, my remedy will be the single most critical step you ...
From conquistadors to corporations: wanna do something about globalization? You might start by learning a little history.
May 01, 2002; ... If we are to talk about "globablization" today, we must first talk about death. What happened in New York and Washington, D.C., last Sept. 11 has squarely put before us the true scale of the moral and human issues this process called "globalization" entails. Let me share with you some ...
Cuppa Joe, with a twist: Pura Vida coffee--like most companies--goes after profits, but what happens next is hardly ordinary.(Pura Vida Coffee Co. finances Costa Rica Ministry)(Statistical Data Included)
May 01, 2002; ... It is a morning ritual for thousands of Americans, a gateway into the day, the warm cup over which they connect with others. But for drinkers of Pura Vida, that cup of coffee is also a ray of hope for at-risk children in the impoverished and struggling neighborhoods of San Jose, Costa ...
Preaching God's green gospel: an interview with environmental minister Sally Bingham; everything God created has an intrinsic right to life; even your most stringent fundamentalists will not argue with that.(Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California)(Interview)
May 01, 2002 ... When Rev. Sally Bingham steps up to the pulpit at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, her mission isn't just to save souls, but to save the environment. The environmental minister (her official job title) is converting Episcopal congregations across the nation to the life of energy ...
Building dreams: architecture students at Alabama's Rural Studio raise shelters for the spirit.(Hale County)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Hale County, Alabama. Total resident population: 15,861. Total units of housing: 6,370. Median value of houses: $34,900. Percentage of high school graduates: 54. Median household income: $14,508. Percentage of unemployment: 9. Products: catfish, poultry. --Alabama census ...
Martha Stewartship: how to tell the difference between the good and a good thing or what I learned from a domestic dominatrix.
May 01, 2002; ... I do not hate Martha Stewart. But I understand why some do. She projects a preternatural smugness that can draw out the most bitter and insecure depths of one's inner adolescent. Martha has the Machiavellian surety of a well-preserved prom queen--a prom queen with a multimedia ...
Anything but the grrrrrl: an interview with musician Ani DiFranco--founder of Righteous Babe Records and folk-punk troubadour of the secular Left.(Reveling/Reckoning)(Interview)
May 01, 2002 ... Ani DiFranco began her professional career when she was 9 years old, singing and playing Beatles songs to audiences in her hometown of Buffalo, New York. She wrote her first song at 14. Moved out on her own at 15. When she recorded her first album, at age 20, she had already composed more ...
Managing the erotic life. (Spirituality).(sex and the religious)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... In Boston, more Catholic priests made the news as serial pedophiles. In California, two pastors got 4 million hits in a week on their Web site for people addicted to pornography. Twenty-three percent of the male Protestant pastors sampled in a Christianity Today survey admitted to sexually ...
God so loves this world. (Bible Study).(the Christian life)(Excerpt)
May 01, 2002; ... These weeks from Easter to Pentecost memorialize the calling forth and sending out of Jesus' witnesses. At one time considered the "season of the church," the texts give us glimpses into what it means to be brought into the life of God. The idea of being divinized, or Christed, ...
Enlarging the family: TV's first all-Latino drama broadens the cultural picture. (TV).(American Family)
May 01, 2002; ... In times of war and global trade, interpreters who help people of different cultures and languages communicate and understand each other are much in demand. The same need for cultural interpreters exists within the rapidly changing population of the United States. American Family, a new ...
Living wisely. (New And Noteworthy).(The Art of the Commonplace)
May 01, 2002 ... On the 25th anniversary of Wendell Berry's groundbreaking The Unsettling of America, scholar Norman Wirzba has gathered 21 of Berry's wisest essays for an agrarian collection that's at once revolutionary and sane. The Art of the Commonplace presents ...
Seeing is believing. (New And Noteworthy).(On Common Ground: World Religions in America)
May 01, 2002 ... Want to meet Siraj Wahhaj, the first Muslim cleric to give the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate? Or hear the spiritual reflections of an Orthodox rabbi? On Common Ground: World Religions in America, edited by Diana Eck and the Pluralism Project at Harvard ...
Life in the HOV lane. (New And Noteworthy).
May 01, 2002 ... It's possible to find the sacred in our minivans. During the time author Denise Roy spent ferrying her four kids around town--to the tune of about 130,000 miles--and waiting for them at various locations, she began to record her spiritual reflections. The result is ...
Release the baggage. (New And Noteworthy).(Traveling Light: Songs from the 23rd Psalm)
May 01, 2002 ... Traveling Light: Songs from the 23rd Psalm, inspired by Max Lucado's book of the same name, is a reverent collection of new songs centered around the soothing words of Psalm 23. Tracks include "In ...
The outlaw rebel. (Culture).(Waylon Jennings)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... When I heard about the death of country singer Waylon Jennings in February, my mind flashed back to the day I first bought one of his records. I was 19, and I literally shed my own blood to buy that album. The year was 1973--a time of terrible disappointment for us rock-and-roll ...
A few of my favorite things. (Meanderings).
May 01, 2002; ... Moving toward the end of the Year of Sept. 11, my favorite things are books and music with insight into life's big picture, the meaning of the journey that we're all on: My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging, by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Wisdom ...
Living on bananas.
May 01, 2002; ... Life and Debt, produced and directed by Stephanie Black (New Yorker Films; www.lifeanddebt.org). "Come Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana ...." As I watched Life and Debt, a new documentary about the effects of international economic policies on Jamaica, the words of Harry ...
Singing down the walls.
May 01, 2002; ... Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (HBO). The film opens with a faint sound, a vibration that says something's coming, and so you listen very closely. Then there are voices--many--singing the full and glorious harmonies of Africa. It's an overwhelming gospel of ...
Deep reverence.
May 01, 2002; ... Deep Natural and Dub Natural, by Michelle Shocked (Mighty Sound Records). The members of her New Orleans church call her "Sister Shocked." She's the Ms. Shocked who sued the Mercury record label under the 13th amendment--that's the anti-slavery amendment--to obtain ownership of ...
Good for the soul.(Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness by Jim Forest)
May 01, 2002; ... Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness, by Jim Forest (Orbis Books). During the mid-1960s, traditional forms of private confession seemed to disappear abruptly from Roman Catholic practice, according to James O'Toole, associate professor of history at Boston College. The perfunctory ...
Worth noting ...(Lila Downs )(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... Border/La Linea (Narada Productions) It takes the rare vocal talents of a singer like Lila Downs to silence a Madrid crowd--and convince them to put out their cigarettes without complaining. But since the smoke might hinder Downs' performance, the air clears immediately. Fans ...
Christianity Inc. (Excerpt).(marketing of Pope John Paul II)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... His image is used to promote cement companies and bakeries, and to sell music CDs, videotapes, T-shirts, hats, mugs, and potato chips. His tours attract corporate sponsors like Federal Express, Mercedes-Benz, Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, and Pepsi. We're not talking about Michael ...
The Church of Mary Magdalene. (Seattle).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... When one thinks about homelessness, it's unlikely that the terms "network" or "mentoring" come to mind. To women who are homeless, though, banding together and creating communities is a matter of instinct and survival. They "network" on a daily basis. The Church of Mary ...
Retreats and conferences. (Connections).
May 01, 2002 ... * Christian Community Health Fellowship hosts its annual conference, "Faith Making a Difference: Improving Health Care and Access for the Underserved," May 16-19 at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pa. Contact CCHF, (773) 843-2700; cchf@cchf.org; www.cchf.org. * Ministry of Money ...
Miscellaneous. (Connections).
May 01, 2002 ... * Hope House requests new, illustrated children's books for a ministry to incarcerated fathers and children. Fathers choose a book and read it into a tape recorder; the book and tape are mailed to the children. Send books or donations to Hope House, PO Box 748, Murfreesboro, NC 27855. ...
Calendar. (On the Road).
May 01, 2002 ... Lakewood, Colo. June 3, Jim Wallis will speak at the Housing Justice Summit at Regis University. Contact: Rabbi Joel Schwartzman, JoelSchwartzman@ hotmail.com. Boston, Mass. June 4, Jim Wallis will address the Episcopal City Mission's annual meeting at ...
Don't try this at home (no, wait ...). (Humor).(Brief Article)
May 01, 2002; ... The wise man built his house upon the rock. The foolish man built his house upon the sand. Then the foolish man sold his house to me, so he wasn't so foolish after all, was he? --New Testament scripture, or maybe it's from an old camp song. I forget. Which is why, ...