What's changed? Obama and race in America The hope I am holding onto for Obama's leadership is the depth and candor of his Philadelphia speech on race and the fact that his most fundamental racial identity seems to be his being biracial. He represents a new generation of children of interracial families who have experienced the rich gifts and real challenges of finding intimacy across the divide, who refuse to choose between the cultures of their two parents. They want the best of both, see the flaws of self-sufficiency and are willing to lose some friends along the way for the sake of something better than the old categories of who "my people" are. —Chris Rice Current Issue

Meditations for each week of the lectionary year: Homeward bound An abundance of grace by Christine D. Pohl Power and delight The word of love by Christine Pohl That girl who prays Chloe and the Gypsies read other essays Incredible story? More than a relic by L. Gregory Jones In Constant Prayer by Robert Benson Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley and Glen M. Leonard God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman search media On music by Louis R. Carlozo search media Beleaguered voice of evangelicals resigns Will the Obama family pick a black church? PBS show ponders Obama church choices Federal program funnels charity donations to special interest groups Doubt Mesmerizing performances by John Petrakis Disarming: A Christian women's group in Japan has produced New Year postcards, in English and Japanese, to promote a war-renouncing clause in the country's 1946 constitution. Some politicians have in recent times tried to amend this clause. Tens of millions of New Year cards are delivered throughout Japan on January 1 (ENI). more Century Marks Blockade The siege of Gaza A new year's promise Breaking the Middle East deadlock by John M. Buchanan Health-care opportunity The time for reform is now

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