Pt. 1. The conversion of politics -- 1. Signs of a crisis : the politics of violence -- 2. Can politics be moral? : beyond liberal or conservative -- 3. Politics and religion : toward a prophetic spirituality -- Pt. 2. The broken community -- 4. A tale of two cities : the division of the world -- 5. Fire in the sky : the heat of white racism -- 6. Pattern of inequality : exploiting the sisters -- 7. I shop, therefore I am : wounded hearts, wounded Earth -- Pt. 3. Toward an alternative vision -- 8. Signs of transformation : the marks of an emerging prophetic vision