Your magazine just brought me to tears. I was standing in front of the magazine display in the library of Montrose, Colorado, when I happened to see your latest issue.
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Charles Courtney 2-01-2008
To your rich November 2007 special issue, “Telling Stories,” on books and theater, I’d like to add a brief but, to me, significant emendation.
Edward R. Schreiber 2-01-2008
I just read Ed Spivey Jr.’s piece about his first public recital (“Seriously, Is This What Hell is Like? December 2007), and I have to say it was inspired.
Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 2-01-2008
Color of Money. In 1974, the U.S. median black income was 63 percent of that of whites.
Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 2-01-2008
If you don’t want to drink milk from cows injected with hormones, then be careful buying milk in Pennsylvania. As of Feb.
Rose Marie Berger, June G. Vajda 1-01-2008
In response to a police crackdown on people living on the streets, First Presbyterian Church in downtown Dallas opened its parking lot as a safe space for homeless people to sleep—even provid
June G. Vajda, Maxine Beach 1-01-2008
“Think cosmically and act personally,” urged Dr. Elizabeth Theokritoff in September to the St.
John G. VanDerWalker II 1-01-2008
I appreciate Sojourners’ attention to U.S. immigration policy (“The New Sanctuary Movement,” September-October 2007).
Name withheld by request 1-01-2008
“God Behind Bars,” by Nancy Hastings Sehested, September-October 2007) was a very good article.
Larry Boudreau 1-01-2008
William Cavanaugh’s article (“Just Trust the President?” July 2007) points out that many of the George Weigels of the Far Right want to have it both ways.
Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 1-01-2008
More than 150 leading African-American clergy, scholars, government officials, and health experts joined in October with the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS to respond to HIV
Susanne Dabney 1-01-2008
The November 2007 magazine is the best yet, especially “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” (by Brian McLaren).
Maxine Beach, Alexis Vaughan 1-01-2008
About 250 day laborers rallied in front of the town hall in Herndon, Virginia, to demand that the Herndon Official Workers Center remain open.
Laurel A. Dykstra 1-01-2008
In the Northern Hemisphere, the short days and long nights of winter come with lectionary readings full of references to dark and light.
Jasmine Marshall Armstrong 1-01-2008
The bough we clasped
while climbing towards
phantasmal blue
has broken—
we lie on concrete,
begging with a
shattered golden bowl.
while climbing towards
phantasmal blue
has broken—
we lie on concrete,
begging with a
shattered golden bowl.
Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 1-01-2008
The Community of Sant´Egidio, a Catholic lay group, is encouraging a glass of good wine with supper.
Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 1-01-2008
Data reviewed by the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform weighed the financial pros and cons of relying on private contractors or paramilitaries, such as Blackwater USA,
Laurel A. Dykstra 12-01-2007
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Worldwide, 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the AIDS pandemic; in Zimbabwe, one in five children are orphans.
Jonathan Mendez 12-01-2007
In June, a predominantly African-American Christian church took the innovative step of hosting a day laborers’ hiring site in one of its worship rooms.