In This Issue
Marian Wright Edelman's ethic of service.
A meditation on Mark's Easter story.
An interview with Arlo Guthrie
The committee for Northampton
Columnists
Not in polite company. That’s where you were not supposed to talk about either
politics or religion. Remember?
We got off the 11th Street bus in downtown Washington and headed toward the people
gathering on the 10th Street overpass. A man in his early 40s fell into step with us.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. —Chinese
Proverb
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Features
Commentary
Who directed the following words to the Indian population of southern Mexico?:
"The disheartened world of field work, the laborers whose sweat waters their
disheartened state as well, cannot wait
As I was driving home from work recently, I heard a new song on the radio. Encouraged by the driving beat and engaging tune, I turned up the volume, only to be sorely disappointed.
The last day of the year is, somehow, a good day to settle things. And so it was for us
on December 31, 1993.
Columns
Not in polite company. That’s where you were not supposed to talk about either
politics or religion. Remember?
We got off the 11th Street bus in downtown Washington and headed toward the people
gathering on the 10th Street overpass. A man in his early 40s fell into step with us.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. —Chinese
Proverb
Culture Watch
Good movies are often not easy to watch for progressive Christian-types. In films of
lesser quality, the action and violence is an end in itself rather than a vehicle to drive
the drama.
Departments
There is no more brilliant literary surprise, I think, in all of scripture than the
shocking cliffhanger abruptness of Mark’s resurrection account.
We've done some early spring cleaning with this issue of Sojourners, going for a cleaner, more contemporary look.
