Columns

Joyce Hollyday 2-01-1982

Only one day in the month of a monthly magazine is more frenzied, more demanding than the day before deadline, and that is the day that follows. Neither is a day to be gone from the office.

So far President Reagan's "zero option" proposal on medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe has successfully defused the issue on this side of the Atlantic.

Jim Wallis 1-01-1982

"Marginal Notes" is a new column that will appear each month in Sojourners. It will be personal in nature and reflective in spirit.

Rob Soley 1-01-1982

Being a parent is my vocation. I am not necessarily good at it, merely called to it.

Joyce Hollyday 1-01-1982

At the end of last year, an avalanche of virulence toward Nicaragua and Cuba rumbled out of the Reagan administration, with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr. as chief mouthpiece.

Jim Wallis 1-01-1982

Solidarity. The name itself inspires hope.

Jim Wallis 12-01-1981

I suppose my knowledge of St. Francis was like most people's.

Joe Roos 12-01-1981

It was fitting that the first global dialogue between leaders of rich and poor countries would be set in Cancun, Mexico.

Jackie Sabath 11-01-1981

We have often heard it said that love is blind. Many of us have probably denied it when caught in the throes of romance, then agreed with it down the road when the flame died down.

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-1981

For most of us it was just another Thursday, but for millions of people who depend in some way on the federal government for their livelihood October 1, 1981, was Day One of the Year One for Ronald Reagan's America. 

Joyce Hollyday 11-01-1981

Following our arrest for a witness against nuclear weapons in September, several other women and I spent the night being shuttled by paddy wagon from police precinct to central cell block to the D.C. jail

Daniel Goering 10-01-1981

Clad in a necktie for the first time in about two years, I entered the jury lounge along with 200 other people. Our first day of jury duty was about to begin.

Jim Wallis 10-01-1981

Since the Reagan victory last November, the political Right has sought to consolidate its gains.

Joyce Hollyday 10-01-1981

Through Guatemala's tropical lowlands flies a brilliant green and red bird with flowing tail feathers.

Joyce Hollyday 9-01-1981

How we got from then to now

Joyce Hollyday 9-01-1981

When young children do it to their parents, we reprimand them. When teenagers do it, we start to worry about their futures. 

Every year about this time the television industry unveils a new collection of cops, clowns, sex objects, heroic doctors, and affectionate animals before an increasingly disinterested public.

Dolly Arroyo 8-01-1981

Once upon a time, Anthony, with bulging grocery bag full of clothes under one brown arm and faded pink, one-eyed "teddy dog" under the other, came to live with eight Sojourners grownups.

Phil M. Shenk 8-01-1981

Later this month, people from more than 150 countries will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to put the finishing touches on an international treaty on the oceans.

In addition to the anniversary of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, this August marks another, much happier, anniversary.