Columns

Jim Wallis 3-01-1995

Well, it finally happened.

Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1995

There are many callings. Some people teach. Some people write. Some people sing operas, and some train dogs.

Marybeth Shea 3-01-1995

I cut my political teeth on United Farm Worker grape boycotts in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Carey Burkett 3-01-1995

It takes love to bake a cake. Cakes cannot be baked indifferently or in a hurry.

David Batstone 3-01-1995

I am a welfare queen. There, I've said it.

Marybeth Shea 12-01-1994

I guess I am doin' all right. I'm studyin', and like the teacher says, it pays off.

Jim Wallis 12-01-1994

This fall's elections were indeed a political turning point. The Democrats who say their debacle was only a rejection of politics in general and whoever was in power are just wrong.

Carey Burkett 12-01-1994

It is fitting that this morning, after paying bills and moaning about another increase in our health insurance premium, I came across a Russian proverb in a nutrition magazine

Ed Spivey Jr. 12-01-1994

A new day has dawned in our country. Unfortunately, that day is some time in the 1950s.

Carey Burkett 11-01-1994

Someday I would like to see a cranberry harvest: crimson fruit floating on flooded coastal fields, skimmed off like a school of tropical fish.

Wes Howard-Brook 11-01-1994

"And so the disciples returned to their own homes..." —John 20:10

Joyce Hollyday 11-01-1994

We started at the beginning, with Eve.

Jim Wallis 11-01-1994

What if, in front of the whole world, the U.S. pledged unequivocal U.S. support for the restoration of democracy in Haiti?

Ed Spivey Jr. 11-01-1994

It started with the kind of silence that makes a parent sit bolt upright in his bed; an unnatural awakening, a feeling of something wrong.

As I yelled at Melissa and Gabriel for disobeying, a terrible contradiction flashed before me, but I beat it down, intent on winning this battle of wits.

Rufina Amaya 9-01-1994

Rufina Amaya is one of the few survivors of the 1981 massacre in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote.

Jim Wallis 9-01-1994
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Joyce Hollyday 9-01-1994

I’m not sure why I turned on the television that Friday night. Mountains stand between me and most airwaves, and my old TV set tunes into only two channels.

Carey Burkett 9-01-1994

It’s hot. The yard needs mowing—the grass is so tall I have to wear rubber boots in the morning dew.

Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-1994

People don’t always say what they mean (I meant to say that). And this past summer brought several examples of the daily "little white lies" we tell each other.