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.
Columns
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.
"Marginal Notes" is a new column that will appear each month in Sojourners. It will be personal in nature and reflective in spirit.
Being a parent is my vocation. I am not necessarily good at it, merely called to it.
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.
It was fitting that the first global dialogue between leaders of rich and poor countries would be set in Cancun, Mexico.
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.
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.
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
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.
Since the Reagan victory last November, the political Right has sought to consolidate its gains.
Through Guatemala's tropical lowlands flies a brilliant green and red bird with flowing tail feathers.
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.
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.
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.