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.
Commentary
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?
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?
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.
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.
L. Shannon Jung 3-01-1995
A friend and collaborator says that rural America is experiencing a "tremendous dying." I take it that also means that she expects an ensuing resurrection.
Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 12-01-1994
And you shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the soul of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 23:9
Frederica Matthewes-Green 12-01-1994
For years I scoffed at the idea of violence outside abortion clinics. Sure, plenty of violence was going on inside the clinics-more than 4,000 babies killed every day.
Bob Hulteen 12-01-1994
In 1967, two veteran Washington, D.C. police officers confronted a slender African-American man crossing a street...
Jim Wallis 12-01-1994
When I first heard about The Bell Curve, the new book by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, I remembered an incident last year at Sojourners Neighborhood Center.
Jennifer Johnson 12-01-1994
When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, its drafters specified one exception: prisoners.
Jim Martin-Schramm 11-01-1994
The real story at the U.N. conference on population and development in Cairo this fall was the unprecedented emphasis on the empowerment of women.