Amy Frykholm
The descending ladder: An interview with Gordon Cosby
After serving as a chaplain in World War II, Gordon Cosby wanted to create a church that helped people truly become disciples of Christ....
Travelers' blessings: An interview with Rick Steves
Rick Steves on the spirituality of traveling: People have a lot of fear, and the flip side of fear is understanding. When you travel to new places you understand more, so you fear less. Then you can love people as a Christian should. The less you travel, the more likely that media with a particular agenda can shape your viewpoint. Those of us who travel are a little more resilient in weathering the propaganda storms that blow across the U.S. media.
The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society
For the last ten years, I have worked in the same small soup kitchen at a local church....
Making space for peace: John Paul Lederach on mediation
A commitment to mediating conflicts has taken John Paul Lederach to all corners of the globe....
Words for conversion: An interview with Mary Karr
Mary Karr has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry as well as the Pushcart Prize for her poetry and essays. She teaches at Syracuse University and lives in New York City.
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Back from the brink
Mary Karr’s memoir follows two earlier biographical efforts, The Liar’s Club, the story of her upbringing as the daughter of alcoholics, and Cherry, a...
The other Jewish lobby: J Street's Isaac Luria
Just over a year old, J Street is a lobbying organization in Washington that describes itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” It aims to offer an alternative persp...
Mixed identities: Religious diversity in the U.K.
London is the world’s most diverse city, with more than 30 percent of its residents hailing from outside England....
Anglicans and others: The TLS's Rupert Shortt
Rupert Shortt is religion editor of the Times Literary Sup plement in London (he also covers the fields of Latin America and Spain for the TLS) and author of two recent biog...
Health-care option: A Mennonite plan for mutual aid
When pastors Constanzo and Marisela Aguirre decided to copastor a congregation in Aurora, Illinois, they had to give up health insurance because the small congregation could not afford it. Soon the Aguirres and other Mennonite pastors may have a solution. An insurance plan created by the Mennonite Church USA would give every pastor essentially the same coverage—with larger and wealthier congregations subsidizing smaller congregations.
Forgiveness: Following Jesus into Radical Loving
Paula Huston is a straightforward and gentle teacher of the spiritual life....
Affinity fraud: Fleecing the faithful
Phil Harmon was a successful business executive with deep roots in the Quaker community of the Northwest. By the 1990s the Oregon man had several homes in Oregon and Washington State....
Justice for the SouthBronx: Activist Alexie Torres-Fleming
After moving out of the Bronx neighborhood where she grew up and finding a corporate job in Manhattan, Alexie Torres-Fleming decided it was time to return to the Bronx....
For the glory of God: Conductor John Nelson
John Nelson is a world-renowned conductor noted for his commitment to contemporary sacred music. He was born in Costa Rica to American missionary parents....
Passing it along: The generous people of Fortín de las Flores
As yet another cargo train thunders past her house in Fortín de las Flores, Mexico, Benita Juárez wraps a scarf around her head and looks up....
7 things you can do right now to further the sunshine economy: Resources for sustainability
• Plant lettuce in a window box. Lettuce that you grow yourself does not have to be transported from farm to grocer to home, burning fuel....
Entry points: Church as a hosting community
If it is a little difficult to find your way into Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, it isn’t because there are too few doors, but because there are so m...
Art you can believe in: Artists outside the church and within it
In December, the arts-and-faith journal Image published its 20th-anniversary edition, showcasing the work of poets, short-story writers, t...
Housekeepers: Hotel workers organize
One Thursday afternoon this past October, along the main road to Los Angeles International Airport, members of the hotel workers union unrolled a banquet scene....