What if the aisle swings out the side door — into the back alley, a forest, a kitchen, a cabbage field? What if you go the wrong direction?

This is an alter call for folks at the fringes of faith.

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• Prank
  Will Braun 6
• Alter call
  John Spalding 10
• Victoria falls
  Frances Moore Lappe 17
• Circumcise your scriptures
  Aiden Enns 19
• Cult
  Bill McKibben 20
• Sin in Kentucky
  Jennifer Ambrose 27
• John Francis, planet walker
  From John Francis, Planet Walker (Elephant Mountain Press, 2005) 31
• George Bush saved my life
  Delia Coleman 32
• Quaint, plain and unexpected
  Robert Rhodes 34
• Divine intervention
  Gretta Vosper 36
• The dollars were nice
  Tery Loewen 38
• Network of spiritual progressives
  Jen Wood 40
• Pretty girl marries pastor, reluctantly leaves rockin' double mocha megachurch
  Carrie S. Martin 46
• Michelle Shocked on Africa, the altar and the believing mind
  Miriam Meinders 48
• Rock star with a cause
  Henry VanderSpek 52
• Live war in concert
  Sammy Younan 54
• Your best years
  An interview with Frances Moore Lappe by Will Braun 56
• Birches (poetry)
  Tricia Gates Borwn 57
• The Great Turning
  Aiden Enns 58
• Alter calls
  Staff 62
• A call to all
  Shane Claiborne 64
• Highland home for adults
  Kristen McCarty 70
• Let us bow our minds
  Will Braun 73
• beyond justice
  jason greig 74
• Conversion
  Shane Claiborne 76
• I'm not sure why I am going to Dajabon
  J.B. MacKinnon 77
• An inside job (Poetry)
  Xrista Megas 83
• Garbage simplicity
  David Ball 84
• Become a neo-nun
  Miriam Meinders 86
• Do-it-yourself home alter
  Staff 87
• Demotorizing my soul
  Will Braun xx