Columns

Jim Wallis 6-01-1980

Everything is coming apart. Nothing works anymore. We move from one crisis to another so fast that the word has become a description of our whole way of life.

Jim Wallis 1-01-1980

As this month's Sojourners goes to press, we face the threat of war with Iran. Fifty United States citizens have been held hostage in the U.S.

Joyce Hollyday 12-01-1979

The birth that transformed the world came quietly upon us in the barren chill of a stable, and its meaning was not fully realized until the violent death-event on a cross 33 years later.

Jacquie Higinbotham 10-01-1979

Addressing envelopes, running errands, attending civil disobedience trainings, doing radio interviews, sitting, worshiping, and sleeping on railroad tracks -- these activities and more crowded my time with the Rocky Flats Truth Force.

Jim Stentzel 7-01-1979

Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all ... Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:17, 21)

Joyce Hollyday 4-01-1979

I was the first one awake in my household last Easter morning. With resurrection enthusiasm, I had decided to fix breakfast for the rest of the family. It was cold in our basement kitchen.

David McKeithen 4-01-1979

For Easter 1978 David McKeithen, a member of Sojourners Fellowship, wrote a musical which was shared at our Sunday morning worship.

For any church to begin to live a corporate life defined by the kingdom of God means that its patterns, activities, and ways of being will be fundamentally transformed and renewed.

Jim Wallis 10-01-1978

There is a passage of scripture which helps us reflect on an important subject: economics. The passage, Acts 2, concerns the economy of Christian fellowship.

Jim Wallis 5-01-1978

Not being of the world, Jesus' disciples are in the world as he was, to confront it with the love and truth it does not want to know.

Jim Stentzel 3-01-1978

"If I had been a journalist at the time of the crucifixion, I would have been hanging around Herod's palace talking to Pilate and disregarding [Jesus]."

Richard Rohr 3-01-1978

The death of Jesus is either the end or it is the beginning.

Jim Wallis 9-01-1977

What it means to confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ in the U.S. today.

Jim Wallis 7-01-1977

A rather persistent pattern of criticism has emerged against Sojourners from a group of people suggesting that our commitment to the building of community signals a withdrawal from the world, that we are more concerned with an “alternative lifestyle” than with social justice, and that we are apolitical, or not political enough, or at least not political in the right ways.

One of Rosalyn Carter’s goals in her recent trip to Latin America was to improve relations with Brazil's military government.

President Carter’s energy policy, his first major domestic policy initiative, has received a rocky reception in the Congress.

Conrad Hoover 6-01-1977

Jacques Ellul puts the matter of prayer in the proper perspective for me.

Richard J. Mouw 5-01-1977

It has occurred to me from time to time that there may be significant similarities between the views of secularist advocates of “lifeboat ethics” and the outlook of those fundamentalists who view themselves as inhabitants of “the late great planet Earth.”

The rhetoric of human rights and morality has dominated the first two months of the Carter Administration’s foreign policy.

The Editors 3-01-1977

As Sojourners has extensively reported, torture and other denials of basic human rights are spreading like a global epidemic.