The Common Good

Articles By Julie Polter

The power of ministering to the bereaved.
Who would you choose as Person of the Millennium?
Artists and believers have something to talk about.
When the price paid to farmers for hogs crashed to Depression-era lows a year ago, it was nothing less than cataclysmic for independent hog growers.
Bringing people together.
Quirky, intelligent music from Belle and Sebastian.
Volunteer Opportunities
Seeking common ground on abortion clinic activism.
Taking back the airwaves for free speech and local issues.
Kathleen Norris' Amazing Grace
Advent, incarnation, and the daily news.
This morning's Washington Post said it is a "workers' market." A booming U.S.
Unholy alliance pushes more than religious freedom.
Michael Moore's irreverent tour of American industry.
Labor activism as an expression of faith?
As part of a worldwide boycott of all old-growth redwood products, the World Stewardship Institute (WSI) is urging faith communities to ban the use of redwood in the construction
Is religious liberty under threat?
A conversation with Miriam Therese Winter on imagination, women in the church, and finding God between the lines.
Tapping into the imagination of God
Women comment on life in the church
In the midst of contradictions, challenges, and divisions, Western believers and Muslims meet.
Churches take a stand against sweatshops.
Building relationship between people of faith and the workers' rights movement.
Commerce, call, and gainful employment.
Kevorkian's caricature of mercy
Together, abortion adversaries seek real solutions.
 When President Clinton vetoed a bill this spring that would have banned a specific method of late-term abortion, many people were outraged.
Dianna Ortiz's Vigil for Truth.
Churches stand with those who labor.
Hearing the facts about the death penalty.
[Demi] Moore's strong flair for taking risks for jumbo-sized payouts showed up clearly when she dared to pose nude and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair....In fact, Moore's whole
The future of health care is on the chopping block.
Can the words "Christian" or "faith" appear in proximity to political issues? And if they do, what should they mean? On May 23, a delegation of U.S.
Developing a common agenda to make abortion rare.
When is a fuselage not just a fuselage? To many World War II veterans, the Enola Gay-the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima-is an icon of their deliverance.
For many years, the December issue of Sojourners has honored a person or persons who somehow communicates the mystery, love, and truth of God in the world, incarnate.
A tense, cautious hope for a peaceful future in Northern Ireland emerged with the cease-fire called on August 31 by the Irish Republican Army, ending its 25-year armed campaign against the Briti
Labor Day: Justice. Workers. Solidarity. Sweat of the brow. Sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Or...Picnics. Beaches. Hot dogs. TV telethons.
Feminist theology seeks unity in diversity
A welfare mother is a black woman, with several children, who spends her entire life on welfare, having another kid whenever she needs more money—at least according to prevalent stereotypes
God created and saw that it was good. But since then things have been more ambiguous.
The practical theology of home.
Aprototypical white suburban mom walking toward her minivan in a dimly lit parking garage glances fearfully over her shoulder at some real or perceived threat lurking off camera.