Compass Backlist: the 1990s

Back issue descriptions are listed in reverse order, from the most recent. You can scroll down the list, or select from the year below to go directly to those issues.

1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990
The 1980s

Is slash-and-burn capitalism the only way? Or can old and new ideas like cooperatives, microlending, barter, social investment and fair taxes make a difference? A debate between Bob Goudzwaard and David Olive; articles by Eugene Ellmen, Kevin Arsenault, Dee Kramer, Curtis Fahey and Rabbi Herbert Bronstein.

How religious groups are helping to shape cyberspace -- and how cyberspace is shaping us. Articles by Antoine Houdeville, Jane Ubertino, Denise Nadeau, John English SJ. An excerpt from the latest collaborative effort by Rae Murphy, Eric Hamovitch and Robert Chodos. Interviews with Derrick de Kerckhove and Jacques Gaillot. A tour (hotlinked!) of Catholic websites with Compass's Webminder, and more.

Read about an African banking debacle, the animal rights debate, chickens in Chiapas, and more. Writers include Louisa Blair, Mary Rose Donnelly, Robert Chodos, Jack Costello SJ, Monty Williams SJ, Don Kerr and others.

Multifaith, holistic, feminist, New Age--a wide variety of spiritual expressions have sprung up or been revived in recent years. Compass provides a guide to these spiritual trends. Articles by Charles Taylor, Robert Egan SJ, Lucinda Vardey, Louisa Blair, Brian Metcalfe, Wanda Taylor, Anne Lonergan RC, Margaret Visser and others

A tumultuous decade marked by resistance to blindly held traditions. Articles by Robert Chodos, Peter Larisey SJ, Janet Somerville, David Eley SJ, Margaret Visser, Jacques Monet SJ, and others

Two opposing holistic visions, searching for spirit in film, and the Word made flesh as seen by East and West. Articles by Scott Eastham, Thomas Roach, Marc Gervais SJ, Louisa Blair, and Cranford Pratt

The basic assumptions behind western-inspired plans for the Third World are being radically reexamined. Articles by Majid Rahnema and Agnes Abuom and an interview with Bill Ryan SJ

The pope's encyclical invites reflection on life, death and culture in our society. Articles by Mark MacGuigan and Ronald Mercier SJ and an award-winning interview with Rosalie Bertell

Letters from Sarajevo, spiritual fast food, federalism rediscovered and much more. Articles by Elma Softic and Eric Kierans and fiction by Ann Copeland and Louisa Blair

The volatile labour market as viewed from economics, theology and experience. Articles by Jamie Swift, Ronald Mercier SJ, Craig Heron, Kathy Shaidle

Consumerism, paranoia and religious and cultural stirrings. Articles by Anatol Rapoport, Gretta Chambers, Mark Starowicz, Romeo Maione

Food, its economic impact and its deeper meaning. Articles by Margaret Visser, David Waltner-Toews and Brewster Kneen plus Archbishop Edward Scott on the pope's book

Canada's Arctic between its colonial past and an uncertain future. Articles by Rudy Wiebe, Paul Okalik and Marie Zarowny SSA and poems by René Fumoleau OMI

Drawing on old traditions and finding new models for relations between men and women. Articles by Rosemary Haughton, Bernard Audigier PFJ, Denise Chong, Don Ferguson

Information superhighway, human rights and diversity, mystery of the forest, and more. Articles by Charles Taylor and Josephine Naidoo, cartoon by Philip Street and fiction by Janette Turner Hospital

Its rich heritage, current problems, and hopes for the future. Articles by Joan Chittister OSB, David Nazar SJ and Janet Somerville plus book reviews by John Conway and Walter Brueggemann

A decade of war and recovery. Articles by Robert Jay Lifton, Michael Lerner, Brian McKenna, Eric Kierans

The basic human need to give significance to the events of our lives. Peace on Earth, Christmas 1993. Articles by David Nazar SJ and Patrick MacFadden plus Charles Taylor on Canada under Chrétien and an interview with Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ

No longer automatic, community is being intentionally revived. Articles by Ronald Beiner, Lauren Griffin, Douglas McCarthy SJ, Lindalee Tracey

After centuries of separation, there is a search for a new synthesis. Articles by Ian McWhinney, John Polanyi and Charles Taylor and an interview with Ursula Franklin

The scientific revolution, Jesus faces the press, Vatican diplomacy and much more. Articles by Fr. Myroslaw Tataryn and Mark Starowicz, fiction by Janet Winn and an interview with John Polanyi

A religious, political and personal look at people who flee. Articles by Mary Jo Leddy NDS, Harold Troper and Mark Raper SJ and an interview with Gordon Fairweather

Why do the 1930s seem so familiar? Articles by Lukin Robinson, Daniel Berrigan SJ, Fr. Greg MacLeod, Tom Kneebone

Looking for an answer through theology, history, art and personal experience. Peace on Earth, Christmas 1992. Articles by Marcus J. Borg, Mary Malone, Denise Levertov, Jean Vanier

An exploration of its political and spiritual meaning. Articles by Miles Morrisseau, Phil Lancaster and Maggie Hodgson plus Raimon Panikkar on the Columbus quincentennial

The good news is spread through proclamation, dialogue and service. Articles by Vincent Donovan CSSp and Andrew Cash and an interview with Mahmoud Ayoub plus Roger Abbott on religious humour

New meanings of sovereignty have political, economic and religious implications. Articles by James Laxer and George Woodcock and an interview with Josef Skvorecky and Zdena Salivarova plus Louis Dudek on R.J. MacSween

What are the sources of authority and how is it exercised in today's church? Articles by Bishop Kenneth Untener, Joan Chittister OSB and Mary Jo Leddy NDS and an interview with Fr. André Naud

A decade of exuberance and despair. Articles by Jean Clair, Louis Dudek, H. Blair Neatby, Michael Bliss

Different cultures and religions seek ways to coexist. Peace on Earth, Christmas 1991. Articles by John Coleman SJ, Rosalie Abella and Reginald Bibby plus Douglas Roche on the UN

New directions for Canadian churches. A century of Catholic social teaching. Articles by Gregory Baum, Eric Kierans and Rosemary Haughton plus a book review by John Howard Yoder

Can communities of choice be created in an anonymous wasteland? Articles by Lauretta Santarossa, David Lewis Stein and Rudolf C. Heredia SJ plus a book review by Christian Dufour

The founder of the Jesuits turns 500. Articles by Robert J. Egan SJ, Joan Chittister OSB and Mary Lou Fox plus a book review by Wilfred Cantwell Smith

War, revolution and the end of an old world. Articles by Modris Eksteins, Gwynne Dyer and Ramsay Cook plus a book review by Reginald Bibby

What does change in the Soviet Union mean for the world? Articles by Joseph Schull, Olga Lipovskaya, Joan DeBardeleben, Yassen Zazursky

A visit to North America's cathedrals of consumerism. Also Peace on Earth, 1990. Articles by Joyce Nelson and Pierre Berton plus Mark Starowicz and Ruth Mandel on television

What do the insights of modern psychology mean for religion? Articles by Charles Taylor, Louisa Blair and Robert Doran SJ and an interview with J.A. Loftus SJ

Its cultural myths and economic reality. Articles by Eugene Whelan, Diane Baltaz and William Ryan SJ plus Sebastian Moore OSB on self-love

How it looks from the inside and the outside. Articles by Daniel Donovan and Janet Somerville and a roundtable with four priests plus Frederick E. Crowe SJ on Cardinal Newman

Examining Quebec's recent past and assessing Canada uncertain future. Articles by Daniel Latouche, Alexa McDonough, Bishop Bernard Hubert and Charles Taylor

The first instalment in Compass's leisurely retrospective on the twentieth century. Articles by George Woodcock, John Honner SJ and Stanley B. Ryerson plus Michael Czerny SJ on why he's going to El Salvador

People satisfy their hunger for the divine in old and new ways. Articles by John English SJ, Janet Morley and Denise Levertov plus Douglas Roche on Gorbachev and the pope