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
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.
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.
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.
In Oklahoma City, 168 people died because they were in the way of somebody's anger at the government.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.
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
Religious groups, non-governmental organizations, and governments from around the world have been mobilizing...
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.
Members of SIPAZ (Servicio Internacional Para la Paz), an international coalition committed to supporting the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico, recently returned...
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...
"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."
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.
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.
Reflections on the revised common lectionary (September 3 - October 29)