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FEATURE
Religious beliefs inspire environmental stewardship,
Bobbi Buchanan
Stewardship of the earth is an important standard among people of faith, from
evangelical Christian to Universal Unitarian. Regardless of religion,
individuals and congregations have become environmental stewards in their
efforts to “care for God’s creation.”
OPINION
A Christian Call to Action
Can Americans prevent
future Katrinas?,
Dr. Matthew Sleeth
Hurricane
Katrina has come, and raged, and passed. Our nation faces a moment as crucial as
July 4, 1776; December 7, 1941; or September 11, 2001. We are at a crossroads
and have vitally important decisions to make.
INTERVIEW
Richard Newman's cockamamie storytelling gene comes alive in poetry,
Heather T. Shaw
"Tastes Like Chicken" is an old poem. I used to read it at readings all the
time. People always requested it, but then I simply had to stop. I didn't want
to be known as the chicken poet or anything. "Hmm—Chicken Boy! Come here an'
cluck us a poem!"
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Jazz saxophonist Rahsaan
Barber: Speaking the language of music,
Terry Price
As members of the Sugar Tone Brass Band in New York, the
brothers marched through Washington Heights in upper Manhattan and Harlem,
instead of Storyville in New Orleans. “But the location was unimportant,” Barber
said. “Because when you come down the street and people feel the music, no
matter where you are, they stop what they’re doing. They dance.”
Memphis: Cradle of the Blues,
Kimberly Garts Crum
Memphis is where I discovered the music that animates my soul. And Memphis is
the place to which I return when I want to be rocked in the soothing cradle of
the blues. Beale Street is a place where musicians don’t simply play the music.
They are the music.
Zucchini
Abundance,
Heather T. Shaw
I don’t remember when I started
to enjoy zucchini, but it may have been when my mother told me about a new
way she had prepared it one night for a dinner party.
Growing tomatoes indoors, David M. Buchanan
Store-bought tomatoes in the winter
taste like those wax lips leftover from Halloween. A friend of mine used to grow
his tomato plants in five-gallon buckets on his deck during the summer. That
gave me the idea to try growing a few the same way—only indoors over the winter.
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