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.
Columns
Danny Duncan Collum 1-01-1987
The last months of 1986 saw a steady stream of seemingly positive headlines related to South Africa. The U.S. Congress passed a sanctions bill and overrode the president's veto.
Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1987
The sun was about to slip behind a grove of Ponderosa pines, the sweet-smelling bark of which tinged the air with a scent like butterscotch.
Sojourners 12-01-1986
Homosexuality has been a very controversial and polarizing issue in the Christian community.
Joyce Hollyday 12-01-1986
On 1879, four years before Sojourner Truth died, a Louisville, Kentucky newspaper said of her, "The oldest truth nowadays is Sojourner."
Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-1986
On October 11, 1986, in Reykjavik, Iceland, history came to a turning point.
Dennis Marker 12-01-1986
On October 2 the Washington Post published a story describing a Reagan administration campaign of deception designed to make Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi think that, among other things, he was about to be attacked again by U.S. bombers.
Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-1986
Now that Robertson's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination is a near-certainty, politicians and church people alike are presented with a number of considerably more vexing questions.
Joe Roos 11-01-1986
Since our beginning 15 years ago, we have always felt a strong sense of family with you, our readers.
Jim Wallis 11-01-1986
When we arrived at London's Heathrow Airport, a television camera crew was waiting.
Jim Wallis 10-01-1986
Albertina Sisulu is, after Winnie Mandela, the best known woman in South Africa.
Danny Duncan Collum 10-01-1986
Many of us have grown up with an image of the Supreme Court as the guardian of our constitutional rights.