Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: September-October 1995
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Cover Story
It's a misty morning on Big Chippewa Lake. An Anishinabeg couple
drags their canoe toward the water's edge. The woman boards in
front and sits on her haunches.
Creation's reliable testimony. A conversation with Christian environmental scientist Calvin DeWitt.
Feature
Commentary
Lois Jemtegard wanted to sell a portion of her land along the breathtaking Columbia River Gorge, a national scenic area. Interested buyers wanted to build a house on the property.
When the government of India launched a nationwide literacy campaign a few years ago, chances are alcohol abuse was not one of its targets.
The winds of change blowing on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures
are making a cold world for those without power or wealth.
Last year I participated in an intensive, nine-month workshop called "Working From the Heart." I wanted to integrate two seemingly divergent eras in my life.
Columns
In large part because of my grandmother's North Dakota farm stories, I spent the first 30 years of my life wishing I lived on a farm so I could bake pies, make soap, churn butter...
The assistant district attorney cleared the courtroom, while two sheriff's deputies searched the defendant. He was known to own 13 guns.
EDITORS' NOTE: The above headline may not necessarily relate to the following article.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
In Oklahoma City, 168 people died because they were in the way of somebody's anger at the government.
Culture Watch
In the 1960s, the Fellowship of Reconciliation prepared a comic book about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
We hear a lot today about how divided we Americans are on matters of culture.
Departments
Reflections on the revised common lectionary (September 3 - October 29)
Most of us have places that, for us, hold a special sense of the divine-sacred locations where we go for prayer, meditation, and reflection.
TWO THOUGHTS regarding the commentary on Promise Keepers ("Keeping the Promise," by David Wade, July-August 1995)
Jeff Heie and Cliff Kindy, two of the members of Christian Peacemaker
Teams serving in the West Bank, were detained by Israeli authorities
for nine-and-a-half hours this past July.
Religious groups, non-governmental organizations, and governments from around the world have been mobilizing...
I could not presume even to speak of it, were we to meet, were we to be trapped
Child laborers, a human body stamped with an "HIV-positive" inscription, and a waterfowl stuck in an oil slick are three of the images used in controversial advertisements...
Members of SIPAZ (Servicio Internacional Para la Paz), an international coalition committed to supporting the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico, recently returned...
"I am determined to die where I am. In the little house that I rent from good friends, overlooking the sea....We grow toward death."
Global Exchange seeks volunteers for our International Peace Center in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, for a term of at least six weeks.