Every year, at our family reunion, one more seat of memories and laughter is empty.
Columns
Jim Wallis 11-01-1995
Last spring, Sojourners helped to mobilize a broad group of evangelical, pentecostal, black, Catholic, and mainline Protestant leaders to offer a visible alternative to the Religious Right.
Jon Magnuson 9-01-1995
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
Carey Burkett 9-01-1995
In large part because of my grandmother's North Dakota farm stories, I spent the first 30 years of my life wishing I lived on a farm so I could bake pies, make soap, churn butter...
Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-1995
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Jim Wallis 9-01-1995
In Oklahoma City, 168 people died because they were in the way of somebody's anger at the government.
Joyce Hollyday 9-01-1995
The assistant district attorney cleared the courtroom, while two sheriff's deputies searched the defendant. He was known to own 13 guns.
Karen Lattea 7-01-1995
When I tell people I live in Washington, D.C., a common reply is, "I'm sorry to hear that."
Cynthia J. Carney 5-01-1995
About five years ago, when my husband and I were hosting a gathering from our parish, a member of the group made a comment that caused me to flush with humiliation and anger.
Deanna Wylie Mayer 5-01-1995
"A group of women who have had abortions will be meeting" read the sign on the women's room wall. Immediately I knew I wanted to go. But why? I had never had an abortion.
Joyce Hollyday 5-01-1995
'Yesterday, it was like fire on glass," says Mary Etta of the sunrise we missed. We had missed them all.
Carey Burkett 5-01-1995
I remember the moment when, as a new apprentice in a retreat center's vegetarian kitchen, I spotted the shelf of nuts in the storeroom.
Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-1995
Recently, some spots on my face were diagnosed not as the distinctive markings of a rare intellect-which I had assumed them to be-but as a precancerous skin malady.
Jim Wallis 5-01-1995
Europe once fought a war for 100 years. For the first 100 days of the new Republican-controlled Congress, another war took place on Capitol Hill, and now promises to continue.