Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: July 1994
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Feature
Commentary
A welfare mother is a black woman, with several children, who
spends her entire life on welfare, having another kid whenever
she needs more money—at least according to prevalent
stereotypes
When Ralph Ellison died this spring, he was primarily remembered and honored as the African-American writer who in 1952 had gifted the nation and the world with that magnificent novel, Invisib
The day after Richard Nixon’s funeral, The New York
Times editorialized that the White House-sponsored occasion
was a "rite of reconciliation" that brought "to a
fitting end his 20-y
Inauguration day in South Africa had special significance
for Dr. Beyers Naudé, and not just because the new South Africa
was born as he celebrated his 79th birthday.
Columns
John Dear, S.J., Philip Berrigan, Lynn Fredriksson, and
Bruce Friedrich are currently being held in the Chowan County
Jail in Edenton, North Carolina, for their Pax Christi-Spirit of
Life Plo
"Welcome to the 40s," a friend said to me on my birthday, "the old age of youth and the youth of old age."
Highway food can be fun for a while—eating forbidden
french fries at a fast food joint or sipping iced tea in the cool
muffledness of a restaurant.
The miraculous events in South
Africa made hope possible for me again. I
was there for the transformation—the inauguration of a new South Africa—and
will never be the same.
Actually, it was more like "The Day the White People
Came" when Bill Clinton and his entourage of young
Caucasians descended on our inner-city neighborhood.
Culture Watch
The hottest subject in the religious book market these days is angels (though
"souls" are quickly closing in). Angels are so hot that secular talk show hosts
are taking note of the phenomenon.
Departments
Tijuana. Nogales. Matamoros. Ciudad Juárez. Nuevo Laredo.
What comes to mind when you hear these names of U.S.-Mexico
border towns?
Every successful community relies on the member who is its heart. This is true for communities that live together and for those that live apart but gather regularly.
My dearest aunt, Butheyna, is chopping beets,
chopping the shamander. Klush, klush
she wields
a gutting knife, the chopping board
is a plank from a dhow. Klush,
You might say that this is our summer travel issue--depending on how strictly you define geography. There are no descriptions of pristine beaches or cheap hiking getaways.
We trace the Story—our story—from its beginnings in
the Hebrew scriptures, through its climax in the memories of the
early church as reflected in the gospels, and then on to what
sense