Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: July-August 1997
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Cover Story
A conversation with Miriam Therese Winter on imagination, women in the church, and finding God between the lines.
Feature
When most people hear "Silicon Valley," words such as clean, pure, technologically developed, and high personal income usually come to mind.
Commentary
Columns
This column was adapted from a sermon preached by John Hulden at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead, Minnesota, on Sunday, April 13, 1997...
Someday when I see the sale card announcing "12 Lemons for a Dollar" at the grocery store, I’m going to buy all 12 instead of just two or three.
On issues ranging from poverty to China policy to abortion, some unexpected allies have recently emerged in Washington and around the country.
Culture Watch
During Easter weekend this year, I finally visited the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
When I close my eyes and think of Michael Jackson (who, by the way, is my age), I prefer to remember the 6-year-old of the Jackson 5, singing "ABC" or "I Want You Back."
Departments
I DEEPLY CONNECTED with "All Together Now!" and
the other articles on the richness of ecumenical
participation.
Citing the existence of "a
generation of de facto orphans now drowning in their own
blood," the Ten Point
Coalition, a church-based anti-crime network based in Boston,
is ex
THERE’S A PARTING in the clouds and the sun is
beginning to shine because when "we" the church
passed the buck to bureaucracy to handle our responsibilities
of charitable se
Miriam Therese Winter is a Catholic sister teaching in a Protestant seminary.
JOYCE HOLLYDAY in "A Circle of Faith"
("Signs & Wonders," March-April 1997)
indirectly raises a fundamental issue regarding worldwide and
historical Christian identity.
IT WAS WITH great interest that I read Jim Wallis’
column ("Hearts & Minds") in the May-June 1997
issue.
In what has been called the "Top
Censored Story of 1996,"
NASA has plans to launch 72.3 pounds of deadly plutonium-238
aboard its Cassini probe to Saturn on October 6, 1997.
THANK YOU FOR naming the experience of ecumenism
("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, with others,
May-June 1997).
The Seamless Garment Network, a diverse
coalition of more than 150 groups advocating a
"consistent life ethic," celebrates its 10th
anniversary this year.
NICE ISSUE (May-June 1997). Good to know there are still a
few Beatles fans in your organization ("All Together
Now!").
YOUR MAY-JUNE 1997 cover ("All Together Now!")
was timely. We’ve got to work together. It brought to my
mind a childhood memory.
I’M WRITING IN response to "Why Work?" by
Julie Polter (January-February 1997). Welfare’s
impoverished recipients are not its only dependents.
"God’s saving justice is never served by human anger," points out James in his letter to Christians struggling against the power structures that threatened to consume the Christian Community.
The War Resisters League, a 75-year-old pacifist
organization, is launching a new campaign to help people
realize what it would be possible to accomplish in their
communities if
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