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Photo by Dan Burkholder

Volume 84
Number 7/8
july/aug 2001

in this issue:
"Reimagining Faith and Action"

Coming into power: taking theology to the streets
by Irene Monroe
Drawing on black urban tradition, this theologian/activist declares herself a 'public theologian' committed to the authentic expressions of the life of God's people as they struggle daily in the world of the streets. Spanish Version Here.

'Faith is a work of imagination': an interview with Alan Jones
by Julie A. Wortman
The Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco has been engaged in a project of reimagining Christianity. "Christianity is not an argument," he says, "and God is not an idea. Not even a good one."

Natural resources: tradition without orthodoxy
by J. Rebecca Lyman
Christians have "a story to tell the nations," says church historian Rebecca Lyman, but orthodoxy has encouraged lies.

Church and culture: no simple pluralism
by Peter Selby
As a post-colonial Anglican Communion emerges, says England's Selby, we can expect to see patterns of church life that are recognizably marked by distinctive cultures. But, he argues, that doesn't mean that each province's unexamined cultural assumptions should go unchallenged.

Common Cathedral: a church community with no strings attached
by Carolyn S. Ellis
Since Easter of 1996, Episcopal priest Debbie Little has been celebrating the Eucharist on historic Boston Common with anyone who comes by. Most Sundays as many as 200 people, most of them homeless, show up.

Letters

Editor's Note

Poetry

Keeping Watch

Short Takes

Book Review