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Volume
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in
this
issue:
"Faith
And Patriotism"
Give
peace a chance? Dissent’s post-September 11th struggle for mainstream airtime
An interview with Judith
McDaniel
by Bruce Campbell
Judith McDaniel, director of
the American Friends Service Committee Peacebuilding Unit, accepts the
patriotic propositon, "My country, right or wrong," but only with
the proviso, "When right, defend it. When wrong, correct it."
The War on Terrorism, she believes, needs to be challenged, but the
mainstream media are not interested in posing the tough questions.
Saying
goodbye to patriotism – to make real a better world
by Robert Jensen
A member of the Nowar Collective, the author believes there is a light shining
out of the darkness of 9/11 that can lead Americans to our own salvation.
That light is contained in a simple truth that is obvious, he says,
but which Americans have never really taken to heart: We are part of the
world.
Love
of country in the Bronx: A wounded community rebuilds
by Robert Hirschfield
A marginalized immigrant community
in the south Bronx finds solidarity – and healing – in a deep
love of homeland that transcends the trauma and politics of the killing fields.
Special
Report: Kia Ora! An Anglican network explore the "cost-benefit"
of global engagement
by Ethan Flad
The week-long gathering of
the Anglican Peace and Justice Network drew uncomfortable attention
to many of the challenges of post-colonial international collaboration. "There
are issues that are happening
on the Solomon Islands that you don’t want to hear," a
Melanasian bishop told the delegates, "and we don’t want to hear what
was happening on 9/11."
The
patriotism of dual citizenship
by Peter Selby
The
true power of a blessing
by Orris G. Walker, Jr.
Since 1917, The Witness has been examining church and society in light of faith and conscience – advocating for those denied systemic power as well as celebrating those who, in theologian William Stringfellow’s words, have found ways to "live humanly in the midst of death." With deep roots in the Episcopal Church, we are a journal of spiritual questing and theology in practice, always ready to hold our own cherished beliefs and convictions up to scrutiny.
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