In a hard-edged, media-driven age the feeling that "we've been misrepresented" is a not uncommon one. Learning to see ourselves as others see us is an important part of turning the agenda round.
 
In the USA, as Tony Campolo outlines in the first of our feature articles, progressive evangelicals are seeking to chart a new path for a tradition of belief that has been too readily imprisoned by the ideology of the religious right - and they are doing so by staking out a distinctive approach to their biblical faith as 'Red Letter Christians'.
 
Campolo is a leading voice of forward-looking evangelicalism across the Atlantic, and his earlier book 'Which Jesus? Choosing between love and power' is our recommended title this week.
 
In terms of the much-contested reality of the Middle East and North Africa, the Oxford Research Group has this month produced an important briefing ('From Within and Without') that looks at how radically different perceptions of the region have helped shape both its politics and its religion.
 
This weekend the work of the G20 will be scrutinised intensely by those 'outside', on the receiving end of decisions made by the rich and powerful. Ekklesia is a co-sponsor of the 'Put People First' platform of development agencies, trades unions, churches groups and civil society organisations (www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk).
 
The platform's challenge regarding the place of the poor within a reshaping globalisation process will undoubtedly feature in relation to the safety of health facilities and of health workers worldwide, the particular concerns stressed in our highlighted event - World Health Day on 7 April 2009.  
 
Meanwhile, Thinking in Action, and the quotations from a current Christian campaigner for micro-credit and a historic advocate for the status of women, return us to the basic question of how we make sense of faith-in-action in a demanding world. 'Sense Making Faith' - which is both a publication and a set of Lent broadcasting resources - is about recognising that knowledge is not abstract, it is embodied in persons and communities. 
 
Finally, therefore, Asa Humphreys, in our second feature article, reminds us that Quantitative Easing as a currently popular monetary concept needs the even more important question of Qualitative Easing (in the social and ethical sense) to put our human strivings in their proper, abiding context.