We live in empire and empire lives in us. This issue asks: how do we divest and detach ourselves from its grip?

• Editorial: I Question the Benefits of Empire
  Aiden Enns 6
• Feature Material
• To my White Evangelical Friends and Family in the U.S.
  Seth Martin 10
• Dignity and Love become Threads of Belief
  Carolyn Elliott-Magwood 12
• The Best Worst Time I Was Almost Thrown out of a Christian Summer Sports Camp
  S. Melnick 14
• The Death Knell of Christianity
  Melissa Mayer 17
• Sexual Liberation of the Post-Evangelical
  Kristy Woudstra 20
• Home no More: Chronicles from Pioneer Camp Alumni
  Kathryn Gray 22
• When I Pushed, They Didn't Budge: An Interview with Elijah Walker
  Trevor Johnson 29
• How to Leave
  Trevor Johnson 30
• Breathing
  Bryan Sandberg 32
• When it Sticks
  William Stell 34
• Broken Connections,Whole Choices
  Barbara Lyghtel Rohrer 35
• The Fling Itself
  Katie Hoogendam 38
• Reflections on Anti-Oppression Work in North America: An Interview with Sarah Thompson
  Meghan Mast 42
• Welcoming the Strangerin Need
  Alfredo Barahona 44
• The Simone Way: A Personal Journal
  Mylène Gamache 45
• 'No One Wants to be a Refugee' An Interview with Yahya Samatar
  Meghan Mast 48
• Hidden Figures: Guards Whites Feelings (movie review)
  Mandy Elliott andRachel Barber 56
• Fresh Starts and Broken Systems
  Nawal Tajdin 64
• Some Principles for White Anti-Racist Work
  Tammerie Day 66
• Photos
• If Black Lives Matter We Should . . .
  Anthony Milian 7
• Long Way from Home
  Michelle Both 15
• Comics
• Born Again (again): A Christian Detox Game
  Geez staff 24
• Outro
  Meredith W. Park 52
• Regulars
• Letters
• Civil Disobedience
  James Wilt 72
• Christian Leaders Protest Trump's Budget Plan
• Smiling Woman Beat Back Far-Right Islamophobes
• Sanctuary Church Concept Continues to Spread
• More than 1,000 Filipino Catholics Protest Extrajudicial Killings
• Catholics in Arkansas Continue to Pray Against Capital Punishment
• Prominent Black Preacher Calls for "Season of Civil Disobedience"
• Christian Peacemaker Teams
  Kathy Kern 75
• Hebron
• Colombia
• Indigenous Solidarity
• Iraq
• Feministry
  Bre Woligroski 76
• More Female Pastors in the United States
• Orthodox Women Banned from Leadership
• Free Ride-Shares Offered to Women
• Catholic Worker
  Lydia Wylie-Kellermann 77
• Mass Blocked in a Minnesota Church
• Washington, London
• Vandalizing War Memorial
• Poetry
• Mama Pine
  Marilyn Zehr 26
• Hail
  Adam Dickinson 37
• Retreat
  Joanne Epp 63