Current issue—Spring 2010:
Highlights from archives
Highlights from archives
AIDS, Poverty & Women
The best songs speak truth to a society and its people. During one of my trips to Tanzania, a choir welcomed my colleague and me with a song that had a haunting refrain: “HIV kills everyone — men, women and children. They are all being killed.” That is the reality of life in Tanzania. Yet [...]
read moreWhen hate came calling
My hand was on the door, my overcoat draped over my arm, when the fax machine started up. It had already been a long day, and synod was to open that evening. The mechanical whirring sounded only like more work to me. So I stepped out into the hallway and closed the door behind me, [...]
read moreA hard act to follow?
You are a priest; will yours be a hard act to follow? It’s an important question for me. I am the interim minister who will come to look after your parish for a few months while it searches for your successor. I am part of the “float” or part-time clergy who make up the interim [...]
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