| August 1st, 2003 Resolving Dilemmas of Conscience at Work My friend Smita (name changed) refuses to write brochures and marketing material for companies because she feels uncomfortable "bending the truth."It's common knowledge that brochures sometimes misrepresent product features, but she won't write brochures at ... |
| August 1st, 2003 From the Supreme Court to L.A.'s Inner-City Schools This summer seeping through the quagmire of continuous news coverage of disappearing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the latest J.Lo and Ben antics was news on the ... |
| July 29th, 2003 A Perspective on the Cost of Denying Women Ordination Nearly six years to the day that I received my first theology degree, I was back in Boston at an ordination (see box below).I was at the Episcopal cathedral, not the Catholic one. Jen, a ... |
| July 29th, 2003 Christian Faith Comes Alive on Pilgrimage in El Salvador Summertime…and the living is on the go. This summer I headed south to El Salvador in Central America.It's a breathtakingly beautiful land country, but with a turbulent history that includes many modern-day Christian ... |
| July 20th, 2003 Lament of a Student Loan Debtor I'll admit it-I'm a student loan debtor . Big time.And like most of you I'm not expecting forgiveness anytime soon.My loan woe A few years ago I set out to improve myself ... |
| July 17th, 2003 Nickel and Dimed Chronicles the Hard Life of the Working Poor Could you survive in a strange city on $7 an hour? This is the simple question that social critic and Ph.D. biologist Barbara Ehrenreich set out to answer. The 2001 ... |
| June 16th, 2003 As Seen from a Distance Though Americans living abroad might technically be defined as expatriates (from the Latin "banished ones"), they generally tend to think of themselves more as roaming ambassadors of national pride.Aasalaamu aleikum, pilgrim We normally head out ... |
| June 9th, 2003 The World of Socially Responsible Investment "More analysts are riding the bull," read the headline in the Chicago Tribune recently.Despite bad news from other sectors ... |
| May 2nd, 2003 Christie Todd Whitman Finds Bush EPA No Place for Moderates Wind Dummy?The writing was on the wall for all environmentalists the day Secretary of State Colin Powell called EPA director Christine Todd Whitman President Bush's "wind dummy ." The term refers to the military practice ... |
| May 1st, 2003 A Student Activist's Take on Incarceration from the Inside As my second week in prison comes to a close, it becomes increasingly clear that the prison system serves little purpose than that of a multi-billion dollar industry.The economics of incarcerationEach federal prison receives $20,000 ... |
