In February a New York court found Iraqi-American Rafil Dhafir, 57, guilty of violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq and of money laundering.
Terrorism
Those of you just back from vacation might need a quick reminder about the state of the world. It's not good.
Canadian evangelicals took on Ottawa's far-reaching anti-terrorism bill last winter and won some changes.
JIM WALLIS' ARTICLE in the January-February 2002 issue was helpful in summarizing efforts of theologians of nonviolence to wrestle with the question of how to resist terrorism.
The most significant ways—both short and long term—to deal with the sources of terrorism will emerge more from within the circles that are close to it rather than from sources that depend upon it from outside.
A few weeks ago, the Jewish community celebrated the harvest festival by building "sukkot." What is a "sukkah"?
Our broken hearts are indeed the proper place to begin theological reflection. Wounded hearts, the tears of suffering and death, however, can lead divergent ways.
When the Visigoths sacked Rome, the Eternal City, in 410 C.E., the attackers used the city's own mighty transportation system-the Appian Way-as the weapon of its downfall.
Many of us feel a deep desire for revenge and violent retribution. We know how natural that is. We want to strike back at the perpetrators.
Politicians have given the president a military blank check. The church, however, cannot write a moral blank check.
For 20 years I have worked as a mediator in violent situations, from Northern Ireland to Somalia, from Colombia to Nicaragua...
War was so much easier before the world's borders began to seep like a sieve.
The bin Laden organization and other terrorist networks are obviously fired by an intense hatred of the United States.
The United States will never be the same again; these are watershed days of irreversible change.
This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue even more critical.