Contents, Volume 13 #3

July/August 1995

Dossier

Summer Medley

Letters from Sarajevo,
spiritual fast food,
federalism rediscovered
and much more

Leader
On an early morning by the lake, it is all God's world. Jack Costello SJ (p.2)

"This War Will Never End"
In besieged Sarajevo, even trivialities become existential problems. Elma Softic (p.6)

St. John the Baptist
The Midsummer saint was a wild prophet who gained the love of the crowds and Jesus' high praise. Margaret Visser (p.11)

Fast Food for Our Spiritual Hunger
Strange religious happenings indicate both a spiritual awakening and a culture devoid of a transforming spiritual dimension. Douglas McCarthy SJ (p.12)

Ottawa's Return to Federalism
The Canadian Health and Social Transfer shows that the federal government is giving up its centralist dream. Eric Kierans (p.18)

Fiction and Poetry

My Vision
A short story. Ann Copeland (p.14)

The Wisdom of Solomon
Our Man in Gilgal
Two tall tales from the Holy Land. Louisa Blair (p.22)

If I Were a Monk
A poem. Fredrick Zydek (p.34)

Books

Shooting the Hippo
By Linda McQuaig. Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p.26)

Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
By Michael Czerny SJ, Jamie Swift and Robert G. Clarke. Reviewed by Raymond Rogers (p.28)

Houses and Homes
By John Sewell. Reviewed by Terry Kruger SJ (p.30)

Bookshelf Gleanings
Shameful episode in Quebec history and limited tolerance in western societies. (p.32)

Features

Letters
Forgotten war, big bucks vs. good life, Jesuits and East Timor revisited, and sacramental sense. (p.4)

Points
Medieval multitasking, limitations of words and loving the animals. (p.5)

Colloquy
Hold fast to the Tree of Life. Beth Porter (p.21)

Testament
The central mystery of the child. Christophe Potworowski (p.25)

Compass Cryptic by Margaret Visser
Vice and pornography, crumb-laden table and Frenchman in burst latrine. (p.36)

Disputatio (p.37)

Sophisticated sneer was unworthy of St. Joseph. Stephanie Vincec CSJ

Romanticizing the hardrock miner obscures true history. Gail Youngberg

Distractions by Martin Royackers
A new birth in water and the Spirit. (p.39)