After the 1992 riots following the first Rodney King verdict, I joined a delegation of international church leaders to Los Angeles.
Commentary
Jim Wallis 11-01-1995
O.J.Simpson and Louis Farrakhan are as contradictory figures as two people could be.
Susan Monaco 11-01-1995
Calvin Klein Inc., no stranger to the racy or randy, has shocked America over the past decade with its persistent testing of our moral consciousness.
Jim Forest 11-01-1995
No matter what religious tradition one is part of, the grim cycle of violence and counterviolence that has gone on for more than three years in the former Yugoslavia indicts us all...
Kelly Green 9-01-1995
The winds of change blowing on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures are making a cold world for those without power or wealth.
Kari Jo Verhulst 9-01-1995
When the government of India launched a nationwide literacy campaign a few years ago, chances are alcohol abuse was not one of its targets.
Bob Sabath 9-01-1995
Last year I participated in an intensive, nine-month workshop called "Working From the Heart." I wanted to integrate two seemingly divergent eras in my life.
Rachel Johnson 9-01-1995
Lois Jemtegard wanted to sell a portion of her land along the breathtaking Columbia River Gorge, a national scenic area. Interested buyers wanted to build a house on the property.
David A. Wade 7-01-1995
Retro is a term used by graphic artists to describe a style of American design from the 1950s.
Terry Crawford-Browne 7-01-1995
On May 11, after months of U.S. arm-twisting and a four-week review conference in New York, the nations of the world agreed to a South African proposal for a permanent extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Julie Polter 7-01-1995
Can the words "Christian" or "faith" appear in proximity to political issues? And if they do, what should they mean?
Barbara Reynolds 5-01-1995
Can the words "Christian" or "faith" appear in proximity to political issues? And if they do, what should they mean?
Kari Jo Verhulst 5-01-1995
In the early days of the Gulf war, ABC's Nightline took a break from round-the-clock coverage of lit-up skies and talking dignitaries and shifted its attention to MTV...
Mark A. Duntley Jr. 5-01-1995
Oregon voters approved Measure 16, becoming the first state to permit physicians legally to prescribe lethal medications to terminally ill persons who have less than six months to live.
Tony Campolo 5-01-1995
Can Christians learn how to disagree without being disagreeable? As we enter the political arena, can we learn to differ without trashing those who disagree with us?
Julie Polter 3-01-1995
When is a fuselage not just a fuselage? To many World War II veterans, the Enola Gay-the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima-is an icon of their deliverance.
Jim Wallis 3-01-1995
When Newt Gingrich talks these days about his concern for the poor, I wonder if something new and good might happen-or something terrible.
Shelley Douglass 3-01-1995
How people responded to the December 30 murders of abortion clinic workers in Massachusetts depended in large part on the ideological position of the responder.