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Addicts Anonymous

vol. 5, num. 15 :: 2006.07.28 — 2006.09.08

Stories about the things that take on lives of their own in their efforts to control us and the people around us.

 

Feature

My addiction

by Rachel S. Hawley

The journey of an addictive personality leads to…the radio?

Editorial

Something to say

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Reflections on catapult as a space for confession.

Articles

What I learned during Lent

by David Howard Malone

Going without yields a lesson about the true substance of control.

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Back issues

by Name withheld

On a shared (but mostly his) addiction to the printed word.

Alcoholism, the disease

by Sarah Walsh Landini

A book excerpt and resources related to alcoholism.

Credit spending was my addiction

by Larry T. McKnight

A personal story of a journey that led to bankruptcy.

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The confessions of a fundamentalist librarian: On lust

by Neil E. Das

How the struggle with addiction is a struggle to reconcile the public and private self.

Late night thoughts on addiction as symptom

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

A reflection that reframes the assumption that addiction is an illness.

Reviews

Dissolution of a family

by Josh Hurst

A review of Noah Baumbach's film The Squid and the Whale.

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Gallery

Tamar Behind Veils

by Jill Bergkamp

In case you missed it the first time

Did Jesus smoke?

by Jeremy Huggins

A search for the biblical basis for condemning today's "lepers" reveals surprising answers.

For the health of the body

by Name withheld

A member of the *cino community discusses her struggles with addiction and explores the link between mental health, physical health, and the health of the body of believers.

Weaving the web

Controversy in the recovery movement

Sojourner's Magazine

A review of the book Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addictions and Recovery by Linda A. Mercandante.

 
 

Columns

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Legalization

by Barbara Zielinski

On the cultural assumptions about marijuana and other substances, along with a discussion of their use in religious observance.

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I am holding half an acre
Torn from a map of Michigan
And folded in this scrap of paper
Is a land I grew in.

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“Half an Acre”
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