Letters

Eddie Soto 11-09-1997

I WAS VERY, very pleased with "Turning the World Upside Down," by Aaron Gallegos, in the September-October 1997 issue.

Carolyn Strader 11-09-1997

YOUR EDITORIAL ON Promise Keepers prompted me to respond with some very strong negative feelings that I have about this increasingly popular men's organization.

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 ONE WAY I entirely agree with the point of view Bob Hulteen expressed about Michael Ondaatje’s revisionist spin of Count Laszlo Almasy in the review of The English Pat

C. Douglas Smith 9-01-1997

I MUST ADMIT that I am perplexed by the recent article on the ecumenical movement ("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, May-June 1997).

Raphaelle Kosek 9-01-1997

I WAS DELIGHTED with the way you displayed my van Gogh poem ("Poetry," July-August 1997).

Karl S. Landstrom 9-01-1997

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN in your July-August 1997 edition has gone too far in generalizing from isolated incidents of violence by military personnel...

Ron Tilley 9-01-1997

JEN KILPS in "Gambling on an Education" (July-August 1997) characterizes income-contingent student loans as being theoretically sound but inaccessible to most students.

Gordon D. Gibson 9-01-1997

SIDNEY CALLAHAN’S editorial on physician-assisted suicide was extraordinarily disappointing ("A Time to Live, A Time to Die," July-August 1997).

Joel Brenner 9-01-1997

IN THE EDITORIAL on United States’ China-Tibet policy, Rose Marie Berger states, "Infant mortality is 88 percent among Tibetans, as opposed to 31 percent among Chinese".

IN JIM WALLIS’ article "All Together Now!" he declares the "four basic constituencies" of American Christianity to be "evangelical, mainline Protestant, Catholic, and the historic black churches."

Dorothy Elder 7-01-1997

IT WAS WITH great interest that I read Jim Wallis’ column ("Hearts & Minds") in the May-June 1997 issue.

Mary E. Phillips 7-01-1997

YOUR MAY-JUNE 1997 cover ("All Together Now!") was timely. We’ve got to work together. It brought to my mind a childhood memory.

James Murray 7-01-1997

THANK YOU FOR naming the experience of ecumenism ("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, with others, May-June 1997).

Jesse C. Jones 7-01-1997

I’M WRITING IN response to "Why Work?" by Julie Polter (January-February 1997). Welfare’s impoverished recipients are not its only dependents.

Richard Dixon 7-01-1997

I DEEPLY CONNECTED with "All Together Now!" and the other articles on the richness of ecumenical participation.

James Jacobs 7-01-1997

JOYCE HOLLYDAY in "A Circle of Faith" ("Signs & Wonders," March-April 1997) indirectly raises a fundamental issue regarding worldwide and historical Christian identity.

Dan Twombly 7-01-1997

NICE ISSUE (May-June 1997). Good to know there are still a few Beatles fans in your organization ("All Together Now!").

Timothy A. Bennett 7-01-1997

IN "LETTERS" (May-June 1997), Lorna Diggle responded to an article on Mary Magdalene ("Revisioning Mary Magdalene," by Kimberly Burge, March-April 1997) and asked about the avail