*culture is not optional

The masks we wear

by Barbara Zielinski

On the various functions of and responses to masks.

Knowing the Master

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On wrong action as the result of serving a false promise.

Our Dinner

by Ellyn Wilkoff

A family rehearses the scene in real life at the kitchen table.

Slaying the monsters

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

The unending quest for better

by Denis Haack

A review of Richard Winters? Perfecting Ourselves to Death.

Dialectics of the Theatrical

by Benjamin Groenewold Van Dyk

A perspective on history

by Paul Fessler

What do dates and names from the past have to do with our relationship to culture here and now?

Reclaiming the corporate culture

by Mike Loenen

A defense of Christian involvement in a world easily seen as beyond redemption.

Necessary theatre

Theatre & Company

Visit this Canadian theatre company?s web site to download the Necessary Theatre Manifesto by artistic director Stuart Scadron-Wattles.

From pews to picket lines

Sojourner?s Magazine

An article by Julie Polter on how some Christians are learning to act for justice by supporting local unions.

The whole of life is greater than the sum of its parts

Bruderhof Communities

Harold W. Button on the shortcomings of ?issue? activism.