Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: November-December 1996
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Cover Story
Feature
It's 4:20 p.m.
I'm standing over the Olympic soccer stadium in Sarajevo. From
one goal post to the other are graves-headstones of various sizes
and shapes, most unmarked.
IT WAS A WONDERFUL sunny Sunday morning in June 1996. In high spirits our group left the Franciscan monastery at Rama, in central Bosnia, to drive to the small mountain village of Podhum.
I especially remember one visit among many to Sojourners by Henri Nouwen.
Commentary
Conspiracy buffs couldn't have concocted a more compelling story.
Columns
What time-honored edible has all of the following: the warmth and comfort of hot bread; the fragrance of a baking cake; the staying power of potatoes and gravy
A recent survey, taken in a school for upper-middle-class American children, surfaced a startling statistic.
"Death sucks." Five years ago this was the opening of a eulogy by a minister for a mutual friend who died tragically.
I'm beginning this column at about 30,000 feet, en route to Akron, Ohio. We're doing the Who Speaks for God?
Culture Watch
Departments
THANKS TO Bert
Golding, David Pultz, and Joel Swadesh for writing to protest
your harsh criticism of President Clinton's veto of (legislation
restricting) third-trimester abortion.
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT to see-in the same issue with Jim Wallis' article on civility in political discourse-the attack by Wallis on Clinton's decision to sign the welfare bill.
ONE MIGHT THINK from the "Letters" section of the September-October issue that there was overwhelming opposition to Julie Polter's commentary on partial birth abortions.
The Pentagon
snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School
of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating
torture, assassination, and kidnapping as t
DOUG TANNER'S account of becoming "spiritual partners" with Jesse Helms ("Politics Without Demons," September-October 1996) is notable for its Christian forbearance toward an enemy.
AFTER READING Ed Spivey Jr.'s "H'rumphs," September-October 1996, I am disturbed by his "tongue in cheek" endorsement of Bill Clinton for re-election as president.
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, has announced that the cancer he was treated for in June 1995 has returned.
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
I LOVE YOUR magazine and have read it "religiously" for years. In the September-October issue ("Our Unresolved Dilemma"), Sen.
MY SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER Sojourners arrived today, and as usual there was plenty to think about.
Some are calling it "a pivotal moment." Others have labeled it "flawed and dangerous."
Inspiring the faithful to be the "moral locomotive for social change."
THERE ARE THREE big lies about welfare that the Far Right has promoted for decades:
THE ARTICLE "From the Church to the Union Hall" ends with the words, "...for surely, in new ways and new places, the songs of working people will rise again."
Seventy-five years after its creation, a statue of suffragists Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will at long last join the all-male statuary of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda...
Tibetan Aid Project. Manufacturing Consent. Against Forgetting.