In Print: Volume 1 • Issue 2 • Fall 2008

Table of Contents

• Spring 2010 articles coming soon
  In the meantime, read it above.
• Letter from the Editors

  What should Christian social justice look like?

• We Are Here: Fear, Passion, Justice

  Are there places we’re still afraid to go, people we’re afraid to embrace, words we’re afraid to speak?

• Social Justice in the Light of Heaven

  Christians are not unique in the pursuit of social justice but ought to consider what difference it makes to do so as those who are in the world but not of it.

• The Rich Young Ruler

  If I am called to live in American suburbia, can I do so while glorifying God?

• Meeting God’s Justice in the Tenderloin

  Now I found myself, too often, apathetic and uninterested. I realized that, generally, I’m lazy and content to remain distant from issues of injustice.

• My Heart Overflows with Matoke: A Mission Experience

  God expanded my love for my neighbors during a mission trip to Uganda last summer.

• Show Me Your Faith without Works

  Jesus makes it clear that Christians will be happy to give up their wealth to follow him.

• Calculus, Empathy, and Single Mothers, or, Living between Heaven and Hell

  Is getting a university degree something that really benefits the rest of the world? Or are we unintentionally making the world worse?

• On Poverty & Handouts

  Is Jesus’ command to feed the hungry irreconcilable with having a long-term approach to the problem of need?

• Loving Our Neighbors Today

  How have local Christians been working for social justice?

• Two Songs for Two Home-Less Souls

  Original poetry from Olivia Lau.

• Call+Response: A Funked-up Review

  The film seems to be selling us a product: give us your money, and we will supply you with feelings.

• My First Test at Cal

  A first-year undergraduate expected Cal to challenge her faith, but she never expected to answer one simple question: why believe?

• The Nature of Love

  It’s seamless! It’s perfect! It’s already come!

• Let the Subaltern Pray

  World Christianity is a transnational phenomenon demanding the attention of any responsible cosmopolitan citizen.

• In Defense of Kitsch

  As creative Christians, we can re-imagine criticism just as we can re-imagine art itself. Unicorn included.

• The Limits of Evidentialism

  Being accused of lacking good evidence for one’s beliefs certainly sounds insulting; but what, exactly, is supposed to be so objectionable?

• On Choosing Life

  I would like to address the culture of so-called “sexual and reproductive rights” and the narrower claim that the right to government-sanctioned abortion (which is the only positive right I can think such a term means to assert) is good for women.

• The Comparison Culture

  We can have confidence in God, even if we’re having a bad hair day.

• Walking Barefoot

  How might the story of the burning bush in Exodus 3 offer a model of sacred transition? Does God call us when we are strangers in strange lands?

• Snapshots from the Exodus

  Original fiction from Whitney Moret.

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