Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: February 2004
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Cover Story
A Presbyterian split would be a serious setback for Reformed orthodoxy.
What if instead of bemoaning our estrangement, we embraced it as a gift?
Feature
An interview with Philip Yancey, the best-selling Christian author who is surprised at how much he gets away with.
Is there a nonviolent way to overthrow dictators and achieve democracy?
Rather than stopping illegal entry, the 5-mile-long border fence dividing Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Mexico, resulted in the deaths of at least 370 people in 2003.
Commentary
There are things in life worth being for--and things worth being against.
Columns
Personal integrity, it seems, has become an endangered species.
When I want to see live gospel stories, I go to the Amoco station at 14th and Euclid in my Washington, D.C. neighborhood.
Culture Watch
Sam Phillips spread the blues, broke racial barriers - and left a mixed legacy.
Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism, by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence.
Departments
Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s use (in "False Gods and the Power of Love," November-December 2003) of the word "corporation" reminds me of the 1960s catchall phrase "the Establishment." It doesn’t mean anything.
Best-selling writer Philip Yancey has described himself as at times a reluctant Christian, plagued by doubts and 'in recovery' from bad church encounters.
Most media tributes for former Illinois Sen. Paul Simon, who passed
away in December following heart surgery, praised his political honesty, integrity,
ethics, and commitment to the less fortunate, especially children living in poverty.
Presbyterian shareholder activist William Somplatsky-Jarman testified
before the congressional subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit in
November that shareholders in financial companies must oppose predatory lending practices
and insist that Americas b
After strong statements from the United Methodist Church and the National Council of
Churches, Reuters advertising agency reversed its decision to exclude a
7,000-square-foot, 28-story Times Square billboard, part of the Methodists
"Igniting Ministry" campaign.
Twenty-four years after the "Morningside Massacre" in Greensboro, North Carolina