Congratulations to Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for winning the United Nations’ prestigious First War Criminal Still In Office award.
Columns
Jim Wallis 7-01-1999
Just over 18 months ago, my mother was dancing at my wedding. Only a month later, my mom discovered that she had cancer of the abdominal lining.
Chris Rice 7-01-1999
With our family's move last year from urban Jackson, Mississippi, to small-town Vermont, I exchanged the blackest state for the whitest and neighborhood drive-bys for wild turkey dive-bys.
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. 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.