vol. 9, num. 11 :: 2010.05.28 — 2010.06.10
Pronounced correctly, it sounds like “new clear,” but there’s certainly no consensus on what’s “clear” when it comes to nuclear weapons. Are they a justifiable last resort or an inexcusable artifact of human pride? How are Christians responding to this issue? Or is it simply a non-issue for most?
Learning about the toxic injustices left behind by the nuclear arms race.
Should Christians care more than they do about the issue of nuclear weapons?
Reflecting on privilege and the manageability of death by natural or unnatural causes.
On how war imposes its memory long after the ceasefire.
A catapult reader responds to the issue on nuclear weapons.
A basic introduction to the principles of living simply and an exploration of the issues that might drive us there involuntarily.
An interview with Brenda Truelson Fox, director of the film Conviction.
A wealth of information and resources from the community founded in 1973 by Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister.
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, founder of the Two Futures Project, issues a call for Christians to speak out against nuclear weapons with one voice.
Jeffrey Overstreet reviews the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road , addressing three critical reactions and demonstrating how to watch films in the meantime.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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