IN RESPONSE TO Chris Rice's column "What I Learned When I Opened My Mouth About Gay Rights", I would like to say what I learned from some other Christians when I opened my mouth about Jesus and joined a church.
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Renee Smith 7-01-2000
THE MARCH-APRIL 2000 Sojourners is one of the best issues ever - the articles were wide-ranging, practical, and well written.
David Anderson 7-01-2000
FINALLY! DUANE SHANK'S article "A Path Between the Extremes," (March-April 2000) says what I've been saying for years. You can teach about religion without proselytizing.
Garth Thomas 7-01-2000
I AM A SUPPLY TEACHER and have been teaching religious studies for two weeks in a Catholic school.
Scot DeGraf 7-01-2000
ED SPIVEY'S January-February 2000 "H'rumphs" ("Surely, There Must Be Some Mistake...") was really good.
John C. Ormins 7-01-2000
I REALLY ENJOYED the article about community organizing and the churches ("Saul Alinsky Goes To Church," by Helene Slessarev, March-April 2000).
Michael Westmoreland-White 7-01-2000
I'D LIKE TO RESPOND to Bernard Cullen's letter ("Giving Our All," January-February 2000) regarding my article "Life on the Auction Block" (November-December 1999).
Bob Untiedt 7-01-2000
AS ONE OF THOSE organizers of the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations network, I write to say thanks for Helene Slessarev's article "Saul Alinsky Goes to Church" (March-April 2000).
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
Finding himself in agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union and at odds with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson said "a moratorium [on executions] would indeed be very appropriate..."
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
After a year of encampments that successfully halted bombing exercises by the U.S.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
A coalition of conservative Christian and Jewish leaders known as the Interfaith Council for Stewardship and the Environment has released "The Cornwall Declaration"...
Ruth Carroll 7-01-2000
THANK YOU FOR Julie Polter's article with information on alternative and low-cost funerals.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
Christian groups in the United States and Sudan have called for the boycott of BP-Amoco...
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2000
Madonna Kolbenschlag died January 29 in Santiago, Chile, while attending a meeting of the School of Ecofeminist Spirituality and Ethics. She was 64.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
A Baltimore County judge exceeded sentencing guidelines and gave Philip Berrigan, 30 months in prison for damaging an A-10 Warthog aircraft, such as those used to fire depleted uranium ammunition in Iraq and Kosovo.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 7-01-2000
One outcome of the circus surrounding the Elian Gonzalez case has been increased scrutiny of U.S.-Cuba policy and renewed hopes for a better relationship with the island nation.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 5-01-2000
A new report shows that the current economic boom is not finding its way to the collection plate.
Dale M. Kushner 5-01-2000
Very soon now the light shall die.
The Great World will be rent—
ashes, sobbing seraphim, calves
born with crabbed feet. Rain
then the absence of rain.
Wild thunder pounds in my head.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 5-01-2000
The U.S. prison population passed the two million mark in February, provoking vigils and protests in more than 40 U.S. cities.