Columns

Rose Marie Berger 5-01-2004

Can we talk about leaf blowers?

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-2004
I pulled dramatically into the office parking lot, turned off the ignition and coasted to a stop, the powerful engine reluctantly emitting its final throaty rumble.
David Batstone 4-01-2004
Online dating brings out what's awry with romance and relationship.
Rose Marie Berger 4-01-2004

'His grave is out past the cedar tree," says the woman in the abbey gift shop. It is an icy Monday morning on the back roads of Kentucky's bluegrass country.

Jim Wallis 4-01-2004

In the recently published collection of excerpts from William Sloane Coffin's speeches and sermons -Credo- appears this gem: "When the rich take from the poor, it's called an economic plan."

Ed Spivey Jr. 4-01-2004

As we enter the heart of the political season and brace ourselves for the spectacle of two grown men competing for the favor of a nation...

Jim Wallis 3-01-2004

Our new field organizer for Call to Renewal was working the room at a conference of leaders of local councils of churches and interfaith organizations from around the country.

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-2004

This being our special issue on the environment, I must preface my remarks about wanting to strangle the squirrel in my bedroom wall...

Jim Wallis 2-01-2004

The Democrats just got some bad news on religion.

David Batstone 2-01-2004
Personal integrity, it seems, has become an endangered species.
Ed Spivey Jr. 2-01-2004
The Bible has one problem: They left out half the good stuff.
Rose Marie Berger 2-01-2004

When I want to see live gospel stories, I go to the Amoco station at 14th and Euclid in my Washington, D.C. neighborhood.

Rose Marie Berger 1-01-2004
I need an incarnation more powerful than the hell of the daily headlines.
Jim Wallis 1-01-2004

During the run-up to the Iraq war, I learned two valuable lessons that have stayed with me.

David Batstone 1-01-2004

Who are the real pirates in the music economy?

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2004

As I begin my 30th year at Sojourners, it seems appropriate to take a modest look back at the enormous impact I have had on the magazine...

Jim Wallis 11-01-2003
The beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals are nothing less than war profiteers.
Rose Marie Berger 11-01-2003
Image: Scorpions and Centaurs / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Image: Scorpions and Centaurs / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

"Do you believe in hell?" a friend asked.

David Batstone 11-01-2003

Technology does not uproot the themes of trust and betrayal in our human drama.

Ed Spivey Jr. 11-01-2003

Without guns, one cannot shoot things, where would that leave us?