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In this issue we’re focusing on the way words and images are used in the realms of faith and good causes – down a slope toward deception and manipulation.

We offer a diversity of ways to move away from slick, prescriptive, agenda-laden use if words and images toward a more imaginative, liberating and honest discourse.

• The 'war on cancer'
  Sandra Malasky 20
• The ethics of slick
  Geez Staff
• Changing the story of change
  Nate Buchanan 17
• Join the revolution
  Geez Staff 21
• Hope: Crutch or inspiration?
  Various
• Come on, a washable Bible?
  Aiden Enns 44
• Good design
  Rob Peters
• Make a difference TODAY!: Reflections of a fundraiser
  Laurel Hoffmann 16
• Religious satire: Path to truth or smug peanut gallery
  Becky Garrison 38
• A good kind of slippery: From skeptical to reparative reading
  Miriam Meinders 74
• The space for poetry
  Adrienne Rich 71
• Hot pop feminist mag
  Jenny Henkelman 65
• On watching good bad movies
  Kurt Armstrong 61
• The ethics of vision: Photojournalism and human rights
  Susie Linfield 47
• Liturgical language as antidote to consumerist chaos
  Paula Huston 72
• Complicity in the cycle of poverty
  Theresa Mienders 18
• Sympathy for the poverty peddler
  Stephanie Tombari 19
• Leaving the garden
  Miriam Meinders 20
• pt1: Too slick for their own good
• The 'Other' problem is deep
  Rachel Reimer-Vanderberg 26
• How to watch a documentary
  Andrea Palant Dilley 27
• why does life seem so small
  Laurel Mathewson 31
• pt2: The rigour of the grey
• Abdul Ali
  Phil Sparrow 32
• Blessed are the poor... and the rich
  Josiah Neufeld 37
• Posing as progressive: The problem with PC
  Will Braun 40
• The more politically correct, the better
  Miriam Meinders 41
• pt3: Responding to spin
• The temptation of truth
  Will Braun 52