Sitting on a bench in Peace Memorial Park, it is almost impossible to believe that the atomic bomb was dropped here.
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It was after midnight at the end of another long, busy day, and I had an early breakfast meeting the next morning.
The three-quarter-mile walk between 13th and Euclid Streets and 18th and Columbia Road is usually alive with the cultural blend of black, white, and Hispanic faces and accents.
The weather could only be described as scorching that day at the Double-R Ranch.
Like many of you perhaps, last month I watched the CBS News special "People Like Us." In it, Bill Moyers offered personal looks at four families adversely affected by the Reagan budget cuts.
The nuclear freeze campaign began less than two years ago as an attempt to give the peace movement a concrete, attainable political goal that would also be a genuine first step toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
It was just past sunrise when the car radio said, "Cheese will be given out to any person who can prove need at twelve locations throughout the city."
Month after month in "Euclid Street Journal" we have shared bits and pieces of our lives as a community. We have told about our hopes, dreams, and successes.
It is among the sweet ironies of Matthew's account that Roman soldiers are among the first witnesses of the resurrection.
Reading Romans 8:26-39 in a small group recently, I was struck most by the last four verses:
One of our readers from Minnesota sent us an article a few months ago telling the story of a 20-year-old draft resister named Scott Aaseng.
Six weeks ago the Reagan administration faced one of its most embarrassing controversies
Washington was blanketed in snow that day, three inches on the ground and more falling fast as I walked to the magazine office about noon.
As the surge of nuclear resistance has cut broader and deeper channels into the mainstream of the U.S. church, new and encouraging voices of Christian protest are being raised.
Last month a Vietnamese peacemaker and a U.S. Christian entered federal prison to serve 15-year sentences for their efforts to promote U.S.-Vietnamese reconciliation.
The sound of marching feet in Europe has again reached American ears. But this time Europeans are marching for peace.
In October of 1978, Congress voted to extend the seven-year time limit it had imposed for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by another three years and three months, to June 30,1982.