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• Some say the Midwest is dying

  A young couple mourns and celebrates the passing of time as they visit the small town of Hospers, Iowa.

• Gentle radicalism

  Despite several flaws in reasoning, Roaring Lambs provides a compelling argument for Christians to transform culture.

• The ties that bind

  A teen-aged boy struggles with the many dimensions of what it means to be his brother's keeper as he cares for his mentally handicapped older brother.

• <I>About Schmidt</I>--about us?

  New movie is darkly comical in its approach to some of life's major questions.

• Radical vision made real

  A suburban Chicago church is following a difficult but rewarding path in an effort to bridge racial gaps, give away more money, and conform to the biblical model for church.

• Revolution and conversion

  As we begin a new year, let's commit to positive change in whatever capacity we are equipped.

• Jamming the mass media

  Kalle Lasn's Culture Jam, while plentiful in justifiable critique, lacks vision for proceeding against the problems of mass media. However, the need for vision is where Christians have a lot to offer.

• Ain't nothin' noble about it

  A family finds a perfect home in a "changing" neighborhood.

• The Church must change or die

  Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christian, while evading some difficult questions, puts forth a good argument for the Church's need to adapt to postmodernism.

• Under my skin

  A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

• Seeking to be changed

  A Midwestern college student volunteers for an eight-week summer mission trip to Eastern Europe.

• Telling time

  A series of meditations, stories and quotes on the nature of time, change, and grace.

• Simply this

  Late night thoughts on the incarnation as turning point.

• Star-spangled dreams

  Wouldn't we all love to live in the country of our dreams?

• Open heart

  On the saving gift of friends and family.

• Ephemeral art

  What Goldsworthy and Christo have in common.

• Regarding judgment

  Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

• Judge your neighbor as yourself?

  On the difference between a mallet and a meow as instruments of judgment.

• The anti-princess diaries

  On the pressures of orchestrating "the most important day of your life."

• Dear N.

  A written discussion about social intimacy.

• Locks and keys

  A meditation on key chains as a barometer of local and internal culture.

• Problem? What problem?

  How can we move from despairing over the bad to cultivating the good?

• The other side of the bridge, or ?2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten?

  A high school reunion inspires reflection about change and growing up.

• Nuts and bolts and conversation

  An interview with Dale Ter Haar, owner of South Park Hardware in South Holland, Illinois.

• Dragging my heels

  Another transition prompts reflection on the fleeting experience of good things.

• Shifting my weight

  An evangelical expatriate considers what led to her most recent major life change.

• The sound of transition

  A move to Pennsylvania from Michigan inspires a meaningful mix CD.

• Al Gore: American prophet of inconvenience

  A review of the film An Inconvenient Truth.

• Returning to the why of music

  A journey comes full circle…or does it?

• Friction makes fire

  On the energy that results from tension within the self and within communities.