Last year Advent was a very special time for me. A child taught me, in a way only a child can, something precious, something true about the birth we all await.
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I have a habit of turning on the radio for the news first thing in the morning.
We present Fannie Lou Hamer's story as a simple reminder that God's light of love and justice shines in the midst of the most terrible darkness.
Unemployment. Last month it reached the "double digits": 10.1 per cent of the American labor force is out of work; more than 11 million people are without jobs.
A group of Scandinavian women recently made a pilgrimage for peace by walking to Minsk, in the Soviet Union.
At our most recent Sojourners staff meeting, we were reviewing the content of this month's issue: "...and there will be an editorial on the justification of aid to El Salvador."
One of the first theological and pastoral issues to face the early church was that of race.
Every summer there seems to be one song that dominates the atmosphere in our mostly black, low-income neighborhood.
Dawn. We begin our trek to merge ourselves with the thousands of other cars converging on the tunnels and bridges that lead into New York.
The following is taken from a sermon drawing from 2 Corinthians 4:1-15 and preached on June 13, 1982.
This past May I had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land for a week.
One morning a few weeks ago I opened the Washington Post to one of the most extraordinary newspaper headlines I have ever read: "Billy Graham: 'I Am Not a Communist.' "
Recently I was invited to address a group of 50 top military officers on the subject, "A Christian View of Nuclear War."
Sitting on a bench in Peace Memorial Park, it is almost impossible to believe that the atomic bomb was dropped here.
Attempts to legally deny the civil and political rights of homosexuals in this country have been introduced sporadically in recent years.