Contents, Volume 11 #5

November/December 1993

Dossier

Creating Community

No longer automatic,
community is being
intentionally revived

Leader
In an age of individualism, community requires a conscious choice. Curtis Fahey (p.2)

Liberalism: Community's Nemesis
Critics of our social order have not probed deeply enough into the liberal soul. Ronald Beiner (p.7)

Perspectives on Community (p.12)

Minding Our Neighbours' Business. Lauren Griffin

Lies that Make Us Resist Community. Douglas McCarthy SJ

Building Community Is a Fool's Errand. Jutta Mason

Five Communities in Our Midst (p.17)

Artists' Community. Sarah Hall

Jamaican Self Help. Rosemary Ganley

Streets of Montreal. Lindalee Tracey

Mennonite Community. Laurie Erb

Struggle to Survive. Marjie Anderson

St. Jerome
An irascible scholar built and sustained Christian community. Martin Royackers SJ (p.24)

Articles

World Conference on Human Rights
The Vienna meeting made no major breakthroughs, but it threw out a few life jackets. Michael Czerny SJ and Luis Pérez Aguirre SJ (p.25)

High Price of NGO Access. Daisy Francis

The Bridge that Viktor Frankl Built
Logotherapy can be a tool, but not the ultimate goal, of Christian therapy. Charles Dickson (p.30)

Film

A Cinema of Social Concern
British director Ken Loach's films have the resonance of authentic reality. Marc Gervais SJ (p.34)

Books

Pledge of Allegiance
By Lawrence Martin.
The Fight for Canada
By David Orchard.
Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p.38)

Zen and the Art of Post-Modern Canada
By Stephen Schecter.
Reconciling the Solitudes
By Charles Taylor.
Reviewed by Robert Chodos (p.42)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Trying to live according to the values of the ecological movement. Michael Heimbecker (p.44)

Features

Letters
Consciousness-raising on refugees and questionable perception of Ukrainian church. (p.4)

Points
Declining organizations, distractions from prayer and human rights at home. (p.5)

Colloquy
A simple invitation amid the storm. Anne Kathleen McLaughlin GSIC (p.33)

Compass Cryptic
Brigand without his band, wire pig and sails made of rope. (p.45)

Disputatio
Government and NGOs need to accept each other's constraints. André Juneau (p.46)

Testament
Our life is a path of responsibility. Graydon Nicholas (p.47)