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From the Editors

Women at risk

Jun 25, 2012

The question isn't whether the new provisions in the Senate VAWA bill are politically motivated. It's whether the provisions are good ones.

Tribal Church

Love made visible

Struggling with the question of vocation

Jan 15, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

Once you finally get a job, then you need to get a “real” job. Then you can expect to be laid off at least once in your life. Then you have to retool and enter the workforce again. Then even if you get your “dream” job, you might come to the realization that you’re destroying your family and your personal life, and the dream becomes a bit of a nightmare. Then you begin to realign all your goals. Then you begin to look toward retirement, and you begin to imagine what your vocation is going to be when you retire.

Features

Passing it along

The generous people of Fortín de las Flores
May 19, 2009 by Amy Frykholm
As yet another cargo train thunders past her house in Fortín de las Flores, Mexico, Benita Juárez wraps a scarf around her head and looks up. In addition to its usual load of sugar cane, coffee and automobiles, the train carries migrants traveling north from Central America.