In a week I turn over my first decade at Sojourners Community.
Columns
Jim Wallis 11-01-1987
The reports of what was happening to the Ray family of Arcadia, Florida, quickly circulated around the country.
Joyce Hollyday 11-01-1987
If you want to commit a crime, Bullfrog County, Nevada, is the place to do it.
Dennis Marker 11-01-1987
On August 7, five Central American presidents met to discuss the prospects for peace in Central America.
Jim Wallis 10-01-1987
The Iran-contra hearings have provided a summer-long opportunity for Reagan administration spokespersons to make their case for the contras on national television.
Danny Duncan Collum 10-01-1987
We are often reminded by students of scripture that the biblical definition of peace, designated by the Hebrew word shalom, means a great deal more than the simple absence of military conflict or physical violence.
Vicki Kemper 10-01-1987
Given the increasingly monolithic, corporate nature of our society, it is not easy to find a good bank.
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-1987
So far the story of the Iran-contra investigation has at least as much to do with what hasn't happened as what has.
Joe Lynch 8-01-1987
The month of June may have been the most turbulent in South Korea's history since the war that divided the Korean peninsula in the early 1950s.
Joyce Hollyday 8-01-1987
"Does anyone live in the neighborhood in which the alleged crime was committed?" the judge wanted to know.
Joyce Hollyday 7-01-1987
I will never forget the conversation a dozen years ago in the plush office of my Methodist conference's district superintendent.
Joyce Hollyday 7-01-1987
This year the U.S. Constitution turns 200. For many Americans the milestone is 1987's excuse for jingoistic hoopla and celebration.
Dennis Marker 7-01-1987
As congressional hearings began in Washington to determine the "facts" in the Iran-contra scandal, the family of Ben Linder attended his funeral in Nicaragua.
Jim Wallis 7-01-1987
Ben Linder is dead. The 27-year-old engineer from Portland, Oregon, built dams in rural Nicaragua and liked to dress up like a clown for the kids.
Jim Wallis 6-01-1987
Traditional temptations of money, sex, and power, the media ministers-turned-media moguls have displayed behavior that is at the same time just plain tasteless.
Joyce Hollyday 6-01-1987
Let's be honest right up front. Many of us at Sojourners are movie buffs. And basketball fans.
Danny Duncan Collum 6-01-1987
According to the book of Ecclesiastes, there is no new thing under the sun. But at first glance, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev would seem to be proving the ancient sage wrong.
Joe Lynch 6-01-1987
A men's group at Sojourners? Where surely the men share cooking, parenting, feelings, and a devotion to the Baltimore Orioles?