Sept. 11

Family members of Sept. 11 victims traveled to Afghanistan last January to meet their counterparts—families who were the victims of U.S. bombings.

Some people think that if you have a position of Christian nonviolence, you don’t have anything to say because you’re excluded from making discriminating political judgments.

Jim Wallis 1-01-2002

I just returned from Ground Zero in New York City.

John Paul Lederach 1-01-2002

The most significant ways—both short and long term—to deal with the sources of terrorism will emerge more from within the circles that are close to it rather than from sources that depend upon it from outside. 

Carrie Newcomer 1-01-2002

Friends, this song is called "I Heard an Owl," and it was written two days after the Sept. 11 tragedy.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2002

Those of you in the hinterlands—when you’re not taking care of your hinter—are probably wondering what life is like now in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital...

"It’s heartbreaking to see how quickly this happened and how much people are already hurting," says Rev. Alexia Salvatierra

Rose Marie Berger 1-01-2002
Are we cannon fodder in a cosmic war of good and evil?
Nathan Wilson 1-01-2002
As the economy heads south, it's the poor--as usual--who bear the brunt.
Kathleen Norris 1-01-2002

Apocalypse grabs us by the shoulders and says, 'Look at what matters in life.'

A religious response to terrorism

Our broken hearts are indeed the proper place to begin theological reflection. Wounded hearts, the tears of suffering and death, however, can lead divergent ways.

Rose Marie Berger 11-01-2001

When the Visigoths sacked Rome, the Eternal City, in 410 C.E., the attackers used the city's own mighty transportation system-the Appian Way-as the weapon of its downfall.

Walter Wink 11-01-2001

Many of us feel a deep desire for revenge and violent retribution. We know how natural that is. We want to strike back at the perpetrators.

Politicians have given the president a military blank check. The church, however, cannot write a moral blank check.

John Paul Lederach 11-01-2001

For 20 years I have worked as a mediator in violent situations, from Northern Ireland to Somalia, from Colombia to Nicaragua...

Joan Chittister 11-01-2001

War was so much easier before the world's borders began to seep like a sieve.

David Cortright 11-01-2001

The bin Laden organization and other terrorist networks are obviously fired by an intense hatred of the United States.

Marie Dennis 11-01-2001

The United States will never be the same again; these are watershed days of irreversible change.

Jim Wallis 11-01-2001

This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue even more critical.