Part I. Torture and U. S. Foreign Policy : Looking Back :
1. Torture after 9/11: the road to Abu Ghraib / Karen J. Greenburg
Response to Karen J. Greenburg / Ronald P. Mahurin
2. How the US military responded to the drift toward torture / Donald J. Guter
Response to Donald J. Guter by Steven N. Xenakis
3. What torture does to human beings / Dianna Ortiz, Douglas A. Johnson
Response to Sister Dianna Ortiz and Douglas A. Johnson / Denise Massey
4. What the torture debate reveals about American Christianity / David P. Gushee
Response 1 to David P. Gushee / Brian Walt
Response 2 to David P. Gushee / M. Cathleen Kaveny
Response 3 to David P. Gushee / Mohammed Elsanousi
5. Guantánamo : an assessment and reflection from those who have been there / John A. Chandler, Mark Denbeaux, Gita Gutierrez, Thomas Wilner
Part II. Recovering Our Moral Bearings : Where Do We Go From Here? :
6. Sermons and Reflections :
Sacred bodies : inspirited flesh / Cheryl Bridges Johns
Imagine the sojourner / Fleming Rutledge
Tortured truth / Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
7. The religious roots of human rights / Glen H. Stassen
Response 1 to Glen H. Stassen / Matthew Norman
Response 2 to Glen H. Stassen / Graham B. Walker Jr.
8. Healing the (American) Christian relationship with the Muslim world / Rick Love
Response to Rick Love / Mahan Mirza
9. Violence finds refuge in falsehood / George Hunsinger
Response 1 to George Hunsinger / Elizabeth Bounds
Response 2 to George Hunsinger / Larry McSwain
10. Insights from the next generation :
Religious torture in the war on terror / Michael Peppard
Heroism in the age of terror : the dark knight of the American soul / Kathryn Reklis
Prisons outside the kingdom : a theological reflection on CIA black sites / Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
11. National security, torture, and a practical way forward / Rachel Lauer
Appendix : Results of Mercer University/Faith in Public Life poll on Southern evangelical attitudes toward torture.