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Dee Aker 11-09-1997

AS YOU SAY in your explanation about Sojourners, "We refuse to separate personal faith from social justice...."

Jeanne Parsley 11-09-1997

I READ DUANE Shank's commentary in the September-October 1997 Sojourners and my feeling is that it is a balanced, fair presentation that raises honest issues...

IN SCOTT ROBINSON'S "Where Have all the Choirs Gone?", the author makes the same mistake that most people make when defending the conservation of all things old and traditional.

Shawn Means 11-09-1997

A WORD OF thanks for the timely article on Miriam Therese Winter ("From the Inside Out," by Julie Polter and Anne Wayne, July-August 1997).

THANK YOU FOR Raphaelle Kosek's poem "What Van Gogh Saw," which was presented so effectively against the blue background of his self-portrait ("Poetry," July-August 1997).

Julie Polter 11-09-1997

As part of a worldwide boycott of all old-growth redwood products, the World Stewardship Institute is urging faith communities to ban the use of redwood in the construction of worship facilities.

Anne Wayne 11-09-1997
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

People of faith generally applauded the Republican leadership's backing of the Freedom From Religious Persecution Act.

But there is hope in working together.

The debate about the place of religion in the public sphere continues to be played out in all aspects of our society, even on the fields of America's national pastime, baseball.

Rebecca Howard 11-09-1997
A Peruvian school teaches possibility.

Starbucks workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, became the first employees in the 1,300-store coffee chain to unionize...

Daniel Mills 11-09-1997
Advent, 1996

Michael Kelly, the editor of The New Republic, was fired by Martin Peretz, the owner of the magazine.

Jim Rice 11-09-1997

Proper preparation for the incarnation does not include counting down the remaining shopping days 'til Christmas.

The Editors 11-09-1997

During the early '70s, some of the people involved with the founding of Sojourners Community and magazine went on a road trip from Chicago  to Washington, D.C.

Steve Harris 9-01-1997

Mud sucking at bare feet,
St. Francis walks the rain

The world is one scared woman in the rain.

The Editors 9-01-1997

Once we had gone beyond Left and Right, liberal and conservative, East and West, nothing remained but to go beyond the false categories of taste and decency.