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Cover Story

America, You Must Be Born Again
How Martin Luther King Jr. moved from reform to revolution  by Stewart Burns

An Escalation of Humanity
Author Stewart Burns talks with Sojourners' Julie Polter on King's relevance for America today.  An interview with Stewart Burns

Features

Lies Leaders Tell
An interview with British member of Parliament Clare Short on just war, Jesus, and the importance of telling the truth. 

Remembering Rizpah
The story of an obscure, powerless woman reminds us to do what we can.  by Paula Gooder

'War on Terror' or Real Security?
A just and viable alternative to the Bush doctrine.  by David Cortright and George A. Lopez

A Loan at Last
Through "Oikocredit" some of the world's poorest people get the capital and dignity to thrive.  by Katherine Paarlberg

Commentary

Why the Stakes Are So High for Trade Talks
Web Exclusive! A companion to "Don't Trade Away the Farm"  by Elizabeth Palmberg

Don't Trade Away the Farm
Rebuffed (for now) in the global arena, the U.S. will pursue a divide-and-conquer strategy.  by Elizabeth Palmberg

It's the Money
After the Big Tobacco suits, what next?  by Rick Bernardo

An Active Faith
What's charity without justice?  by Yonce Shelton

Columns

Hearts & Minds: Choosing Life
by Jim Wallis

The Hungry Spirit: Magnificent Desolation, Agonizing Love
I need an incarnation more powerful than the hell of the daily headlines.  by Rose Marie Berger

Macrowave: Thou Shalt Not Download?
Who are the real pirates in the music economy?  by David Batstone

H'rumphs: A Towering Legacy of Achievement
by Ed Spivey Jr.

Culture Watch

Carriers of the Torch
The beer-commercial sensibility of deliberate, cultivated empty-headedness is pervasive.  by Danny Duncan Collum

Johnny Cash Goes Home
One last time, the Man in Black brings his music, and love, to the Carter Family Fold.  by Kimberly Burge

Back-Porch Apocalypse
Soul Journey, by Gillian Welch.  by Kate Bowman

Spiritual Leadership
The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson.  by Duane Shank

New and Noteworthy

• Audio: Drop the Debt
• Film: Briars in the Cotton Patch: The Story of Koinonia Farm
• Book: Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits
• Audio: This Train

Departments

Inside Story
by The Editors

Between the Lines
| Anglican Anguish | No Fly Zone | Evangelical Liberationists | Barring Prison Rape | Obey the Signs | Trickle Up Economics | News Bites |

Living the Word: The Good News
by Michaela Bruzzese

Poetry: On the Ninth Day of Christmas
by Marilyn Robertson

Letters
| An Impotent Church? | Alternative Voices | Whither Democracy? | Dennis Kucinich Responds |