in this issue:
Charitable Choices

‘Don’t be charitable to the poor; arrange it so that they have power’
an interview with Michael Zweig by Jane Slaughter
In The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret, Michael Zweig pulls the covers off "America’s best kept secret," that the "working class" makes up 62 percent of the population. Such an understanding has important implications for charitable giving. Spanish version here.

Charitable choice: Unleashing an ‘enormous force for good’?
by Camille Colatosti and Julie A. Wortman
As President George W. Bush’s faith-based and community initiatives legislation made its way through Congress, people of faith raised serious questions about its politics.

'Coming out' as wealthy – for the common good
by Marianne Arbogast
United For a Fair Economy’s four-year-old Responsible Wealth project now has over 500 members who have "joined together to speak out publicly to change a growing set of rules tilted in favor of us, large asset owners, at the expense of others in society."

Doing good – by writing checks
by Gail B. Kuenstler
Kuenstler wanted to make sure that she was putting her money where it would do the most good. In this article she shares the fruits of her painstaking research.

Special Report: The global anatomy of a local church conflict
by Pamela W. Darling
The dispute between a ‘traditionalist’ parish and the Bishop of Washington, Pro Tempore, has become emblematic of power struggles in the worldwide Anglican Communion

Letters

Editorial Notes

Poetry

Short Takes

Book Review