I MUST ADMIT that I am perplexed by the recent article on the ecumenical movement ("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, May-June 1997).
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IN JIM WALLIS’ article "All Together Now!" he declares the "four basic constituencies" of American Christianity to be "evangelical, mainline Protestant, Catholic, and the historic black churches."
I WAS DELIGHTED with the way you displayed my van Gogh poem ("Poetry," July-August 1997).
Under pressure from conservative Christian organizations, the International Bible Society has scrapped its plans to publish a gender-neutral version of its popular NIV bible.
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, and apparently so does the media business.
At Iliff School of Theology in Denver, a seminary considered to be one of the country's more liberal, a group of students protesting in the chapel were surprised when the Denver Police Department arrived, handcuffed them, and hauled them to jail.
Violence continues in the aftermath of the recent coup in Sierra Leone.
In awarding McDonald's $98,000 in a libel case against two vegetarian activists, a British judge found that some of the charges the activists made were true.
Let’s get it straight: Living God’s way in the world is not for the faint-hearted.
Once we had gone beyond Left and Right, liberal and conservative, East and West, nothing remained but to go beyond the false categories of taste and decency.
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN in your July-August 1997 edition has gone too far in generalizing from isolated incidents of violence by military personnel...
JEN KILPS in "Gambling on an Education" (July-August 1997) characterizes income-contingent student loans as being theoretically sound but inaccessible to most students.
IM WRITING IN response to "Why Work?" by Julie Polter (January-February 1997). Welfares impoverished recipients are not its only dependents.
I DEEPLY CONNECTED with "All Together Now!" and the other articles on the richness of ecumenical participation.