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The pressing issue for us Westerners, the famously alienated, is that our relationship to the world is that of master to slave. We think we’ve solved slavery in the human realm by turning iron shackles into low paychecks. But the shackles on nature grow tighter. In Brazil, a chain stretched between two Caterpillar tractors mows down forests.
By David CampbellNovember 1992October 1992We live with one another on a rare life-sustaining planet as it makes a few dozen turns around its modest and finite star. The real news on this planet is love — why it exists, where it came from, and where it’s going. How love fares against hate and indifference is the only reliable measure of historical progress that we have.
Gil Bailie
A new lifeguard, a poinsettia-plant-watering mystery woman, a big sister at the birth of her brother
By Our ReadersOctober 1992He came in on a royal blue 1928 Studebaker, the engine rattling, leaving a dusty cloud billowing into the desert air.
By David BajoJune 1992Bringing someone back to life, going through fertility treatments, spending more time with family
By Our ReadersJune 1992We are seduced by the beauty of the veils never to look further. This is God’s camouflage. We must not let Him get away with it.
By David Brendan HopesMay 1992Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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