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The Editors 9-01-1997
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.
Karl S. Landstrom 9-01-1997
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN in your July-August 1997 edition has gone too far in generalizing from isolated incidents of violence by military personnel...
Ron Tilley 9-01-1997
JEN KILPS in "Gambling on an Education" (July-August 1997) characterizes income-contingent student loans as being theoretically sound but inaccessible to most students.
Tim McCarroll-Butler 9-01-1997
IN ONE WAY I entirely agree with the point of view Bob Hulteen expressed about Michael Ondaatje’s revisionist spin of Count Laszlo Almasy in the review of The English Pat
Gordon D. Gibson 9-01-1997
SIDNEY CALLAHAN’S editorial on physician-assisted suicide was extraordinarily disappointing ("A Time to Live, A Time to Die," July-August 1997).
C. Douglas Smith 9-01-1997
I MUST ADMIT that I am perplexed by the recent article on the ecumenical movement ("All Together Now!" by Jim Wallis, May-June 1997).
Joel Brenner 9-01-1997
IN THE EDITORIAL on United States’ China-Tibet policy, Rose Marie Berger states, "Infant mortality is 88 percent among Tibetans, as opposed to 31 percent among Chinese".
Raphaelle Kosek 9-01-1997
I WAS DELIGHTED with the way you displayed my van Gogh poem ("Poetry," July-August 1997).
Stuart Nicodemos Siegel 9-01-1997
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."
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, and apparently so does the media business.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
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.
Kimberly Burge 9-01-1997
A tough and compassionate approach holds offenders accountable while seeking reconciliation.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
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.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
Violence continues in the aftermath of the recent coup in Sierra Leone.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 9-01-1997
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.
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 7-01-1997
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
Sandy Maben, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 7-01-1997
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