Editorials
AIDS: The Ever-Growing Scourge
President Bush has signed into law a measure that will allocate $15 billion to fight AIDS in the poorest countries of Africa and the Caribbean. This is a hopeful sign.
Articles
Marital and Ecclesial Commitment
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, marriage has offered a set of images helpful in illuminating our communal relationship with God.
Jazz Goes Back to Church
Dave Brubeck is recognized as a gifted jazz pianist and composer.
Sister-to-Sister: A New Approach to AIDS in Africa
Although both women and men are dying of AIDS at ever increasing rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is women who bear the brunt of the epidemic’s destructive impact.
Speaking Truth to Power
What is truth? John the Evangelist attributes this question to Pilate in his examination of Jesus.
God and Caesar in the New Europe
A draft constitution for the European Union was presented at a summit meeting in Greece on June 20.
Books and Culture
Books
Promoting the largest deregulation campaign in the last half century, the Bush administration says deregulation will bring prosperity and he
Books
To its “cultured despisers” (Schleiermacher’s felicitous term), Christianity might well seem occupied with turning guile into guilt.
Columns and Departments
The Word
The Word
The Word
Faith in Focus
Columns
Of Many Things
Letters





