Columns

Rocky Kidd 7-01-1999

Little Calumet Christian Fellowship is the first Mennonite church in North America to intentionally form a Generation X congregation with pastoral leadership from within that generation.

Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-1999

Congratulations to Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for winning the United Nations’ prestigious First War Criminal Still In Office award.

Chris Rice 5-01-1999
On the first anniversary of the day Spencer met you face to face.
Kelley E. Evans 5-01-1999
cup in a tiny, single-serving French press. Some mornings I rush out of the house and leave the coffee-making for someone at the office, but I usually regret this.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1999

President Clinton said today that recent reports of police misconduct had shaken people’s faith in the police, and he proposed several measures that he said would help restore that trust.

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-1999

"What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or, not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Tough words from a tough man. The man: Dan Quayle. The words: I have no idea.

Jim Wallis 3-01-1999

United States policy toward Iraq needs a radical change.

Joe Nangle 3-01-1999

The final column of a six-year run gives the author permission to write in the first person, wouldn't you say?

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-1999

Or did you think Y2K was another Calvin Klein perfume, the kind promoted by pouty models who look like all they want from life is more heroin?

Kristine Jensen 1-01-1999

It is a clear fall day in 1986 and I am walking the block home from the bus stop. It is my second month of high school; I am 13, a freshman, an artist.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-1999

The global economy is in shambles, the presidency is in crisis, and Americans are struggling under the weight of a broken health care system. But hey, I've got my own problems.

Jim Wallis 1-01-1999

In November, once again, Iraq responded to a military threat and signaled that it would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to resume their work. This was heartening news.

Pam Fickenscher 1-01-1999

It is often assumed that younger people have no respect for their elders and even less reverence for history.

Joe Nangle 1-01-1999

Early in the 1980s, I served a parish in Woburn, Massachusetts. This suburban city, some 12 miles north of Boston, had boasted of tanneries for 300 years.

Joe Nangle 11-01-1998

Ecology does not begin and end with the human, but it certainly includes us. All other beings share the planet and the cosmos with us, and we with them.

Ed Spivey Jr. 11-01-1998

Film stardom is an elusive dream for most, including even yours truly, whom many have credited with talents well-suited for the big screen.

Jim Wallis 11-01-1998

Many of those present for Bill Clinton’s prayer breakfast repentance were moved. Unlike his August 17 address to the nation, this speech was contrite enough to convince.

Jeremy White 11-01-1998

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.

Valerie Schultz 11-01-1998

Sometimes self-knowledge can be gleaned from the most unlikely of sources. From a glimpse of sunset, or a chance reading of a poem. Or, say, from a 14-year-old Japanese girl.

Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-1998

Morning in Washington, D.C.