Columns

Joe Roos 5-01-1987

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. government conducted a well-orchestrated campaign of intimidation and harassment against opponents of the Vietnam War.

Linda Davidson 5-01-1987

Today, Good Friday, I went out to Peetz, the missile silo site, again. I don't like going, nor do I like staying home.

Joyce Hollyday 5-01-1987

Open Door opens it's doors to everyone.

Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus rode toward Jerusalem in what has come to be known as the triumphal entry.

Jim Rice 4-01-1987

When 1,400 evangelical Christians gathered in Pasadena, California, in 1983 to consider various "biblical perspectives on peacemaking," a wide range of views was expressed from the pulpit.

Vicki Kemper 4-01-1987

Late last September it looked like so-called immigration reform, a veiled attempt to deny immigrants' rights, was finally dead.

Joyce Hollyday 4-01-1987

In the world of the last few decades, work and family patterns have undergone dramatic upheaval.

Ed Loring 3-01-1987

Homelessness is absurd. Homelessness is unnecessary. Homelessness is hell.

Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1987

To look into the eyes of Gustavo Parajon is to see compassion and integrity.

In Washington these days, the great unanswered question about the Iran-contra scandal is the nostalgic Watergate favorite, "What did the president know, and when did he know it?"

Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1987

It was an unusual sight--40 people walking through our neighborhood, from house to house, carrying forks.

Dennis Marker 2-01-1987

For the past six years, Ronald Reagan and his administration have virtually controlled Washington.

Jim Wallis 2-01-1987

When I look into the eyes of Eugene Hasenfus, I see a man who is scared, helpless, and trapped. Eugene Hasenfus [was] the first American caught in the net, the first American who [fell] into the pit we dug in Nicaragua...[and he wasn't] the last.

Dana Mills-Powell 2-01-1987

An afternoon meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, discussing religious affairs was not unlike many meetings I go to.

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the focus of this issue of Sojourners, is the most pervasive historic fact of our time.

Vicki Kemper 2-01-1987

There is something mystical about the empowerment of formerly powerless people.

Ronald Adams 1-01-1987

Encounter with the Suffering Christ

Jim Wallis 1-01-1987

My concordance of the Bible lists almost 300 biblical references to "truth" and more than 600 to "love."

Jim Wallis 1-01-1987

My sister Barb, her husband, Jim, and their two boys, Michael and Nathan, joined Sojourners 11 years ago, just as we were moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C.

Vicki Kemper 1-01-1987

Like salt in a wound, news of the shipment of official U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras has been painful for many of us.