I very much enjoyed your last issue, especially the article about urban contemplatives, "City Lights."
Letters
Connie Hohlfeld Molbeck 3-01-2000
THIS MORNING I READ Wilfred Manyango’s letter to the editor about how the Congo’s late president Mobutu was worth $4 billion, and whether the level of corruption entitled some countries to debt relief.
Ken Hasle 3-01-2000
THANKS SO MUCH for the article "City Lights" by Edward J. Farrell (January-February 2000).
Michael Lane 3-01-2000
WHILE I FOUND MUCH commendable in Will O’Brien’s essay "Dare to Preach this Gospel," his Herculean efforts to be as radical as possible finally degenerated into just one more of the now
Benjamin Cohn 3-01-2000
I WAS VERY TOUCHED and moved by Will Campbell’s "Feeding the Gods of Unfreedom" (November-December 1999). I am not a Christian.
Bernard Cullen 3-01-2000
I READ THE ARTICLE by Michael L. Westmoreland-White, "Life on the Auction Block" (November-December 1999), with some concern.
John Hertzler 11-01-1999
Ched Myers in "’Behold, the Treasure of the Church’", notes that Jesus’ statement "For the poor will always be with you" is often misunderstood and used to justify the existence of hte poor.
Stephen J. Carr 11-01-1999
YOUR COMMENTARY on Jubilee 2000 and the debt debate (by Marie Dennis, September-October 1999) was somewhat weakened by its penultimate paragraph.
Name withheld by request 11-01-1999
I READ ED SPIVEY’S "H’rumph’s" ("Facts of Life," September-October 1999) and laughed out loud. I too came upon the Bee Gees on TV in a "One Night Only" (please!) concert on PBS.
Eric Stromsta 11-01-1999
IN RAY KELLEHER’S review of Annie Dillard’s book For the Time Being, he says that she describes children "so deformed some might call their very humanity into question."
Eugene Martin 11-01-1999
Kosovo’s peaceful leader Ibrahim Rugova has not received press attention until recently.
Ray Shiffer 11-01-1999
ED SPIVEY’S "H’RUMPHS" column (September-October 1999) continues to be one of the most timely in the magazine.
Madeline Roberts 5-01-1999
I WAS VERY touched and glad to see the article "Home at Last" (by Danny Duncan Collum, March-April 1999) discussing the realities of Southern life.
Phyliss T. Albritton 5-01-1999
The article "Stone Upon Stone" (by Hans Hallundbaek, March-April 1999) brought tears to my eyes as I have a "son" in prison.
Bill Price 5-01-1999
I WANT TO THANK you for the January-February 1999 Sojourners with the three articles on the new movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
Carole Grappo 5-01-1999
I JUST READ online Robert Jewett’s article "The Abandonment of Trust" (November-December 1998).
John K. Stoner 5-01-1999
DAN BERRIGAN’S lament ("Letters," March-April 1999) about the general’s clothes in his post-repentance picture suggests several things to me