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with Compass: A Jesuit Journal, published by the English Canadian Jesuits and featuring such outstanding writers and thinkers as:

Margaret Avison, Canadian poet, on the Gospel of Luke

Ronald Beiner, political scientist, on the communitarian challenge to liberalism

David Cayley, CBC Ideas producer, on new ecological paradigms

Gretta Chambers, chancellor of McGill University, on Quebec in the 1950s

Joan Chittister, writer and Benedictine Sister, on the creative destruction of religious life

Denise Chong, author of The Concubine's Children, on love and marriage in Canada's Chinese community

Ursula Franklin, scientist and pacifist, on women and peace in science

Rosemary Haughton, writer and theologian, on the unofficial Catholic theology of marriage that keeps bursting out of the box

Eric Kierans, former Liberal cabinet minister, on the postwar shaping of Canada

Brian McKenna, producer of The Valour and the Horror, on his memory and interpretation of the Second World War

Ronald Mercier, Jesuit theologian, on Pope John Paul's theology of work

John Polanyi, Nobel laureate in chemistry, on the role and shape of science in the contemporary world

Jim Profit SJ and actress Moira Wylie on vegetarianism

Majid Rahnema, former Iranian cabinet minister and UN development officer, on why he has rethought his whole philosophy of development

Anatol Rapoport, peace scholar and activist, and Peter Dale Scott, poet and writer on American politics, on the Cold War

Douglas Roche, former Canadian ambassador for disarmament, on human rights and the UN

Bill Ryan, Jesuit and economist, on the new role of culture and religion in international development

Archbishop Edward Scott, former Anglican primate of Canada, on Pope John Paul's Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Elma Softic, Bosnian writer, on living through the war in Sarajevo

Mark Starowicz, head of CBC documentaries, on the debates around Canadian culture

Charles Taylor, internationally famous Canadian philosopher, on Catholic natural law theory

Margaret Visser, author of the bestselling The Way We Are, on St. John the Baptist

David Waltner-Toews, poet and epidemiologist, on the link between the bread we eat and creation

Subscribe to Compass to read these engaging writers and topics, and more, six times a year. Theme issues focus on a particular topic from a variety of viewpoints. You will also get feature articles, Martin Royackers SJ's award-winning column, fiction by noted writers such as Janette Turner Hospital and Ann Copeland, Compass's annual world conflict map and survey of global hot spots, book reviews, and Margaret Visser's popular cryptic crossword puzzle.