Columns

Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-1997
'Hrumphs
Jim Wallis 5-01-1997

The nation’s social welfare policy is changing dramatically, and the religious community will play a vital role in the transition to something new.

Valerie Schultz 5-01-1997
The hardest mothering of all is to give your children their own existence.
Joe Nangle 5-01-1997
Ecumenism will happen not so much as a result of doctrinal discussions, but through real-life activities on behalf of a suffering world.
Carey Burkett 5-01-1997
The loaves and fishes in the Bible story of the "feeding of the five thousand" (a major sandwich-making operation) should spring to mind whenever hungry people congregate.
Joyce Hollyday 5-01-1997

It had been several years since I'd visited New York City.

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-1997

This issue of Sojourners is sponsored by the good folks at Procter & Gamble, makers of a respected line of consumer products, including their popular fat substitute, Olestra...

Jim Wallis 3-01-1997
From welfare reform to overcoming poverty. A strategy for action.
Carol Fennelly 3-01-1997

If I had to choose one word to describe my friend Buddy Gray, it would be relentless. He was an advocate on behalf of homeless people in Cincinnati.

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-1997

I saw God the other day at the supermarket.

Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1997

I live encircled by an eruv—though for weeks it was invisible to my eyes. I would not have known what I was seeing, had I noticed it.

Joe Nangle 3-01-1997

The many communities that Father Jim Healy served during 35 years as a Catholic priest came together recently at his memorial service.

Carey Burkett 3-01-1997

Yesterday I learned that a friend will be moving far away.

Jim Wallis 1-01-1997

During the fall 1996 Call to Renewal tour, we had the opportunity to speak directly to thousands of people across the country, and to hear their questions and concerns.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-1997

I confess that on Election Day this past November I didn't vote my conscience or my pocketbook.

Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1997

Wesley Woods is a United Methodist retirement high-rise in my Atlanta neighborhood.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-1997

The phone call came as it does to many parents at some point in the growing-up years of their children. Colleen had fallen off the jungle gym at school, and could I please pick her up?

Carey Burkett 1-01-1997

Would it be cruel to extol the virtues of chocolate these dark, cold days of January and February, months traditionally reserved for dietary resolutions and abstention from such temptations?

Joe Nangle 1-01-1997

For the first time in memory, the Latino community took to the streets of Washington, D.C., in large numbers on October 12, 1996.

Joyce Hollyday 11-01-1996

It feels "normal" again in Atlanta, whatever that means.