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In spite of the end of the civil war in El Salvador and a strong challenge in the March 16 elections to ARENA...

Duane Shank 5-01-1997
A nationwide "Pentecost for the Poor"

The online magazine Slate reported recently that statisticians have been unable to disprove the existence of "Torah codes" in the Hebrew scriptures.

Anne Wayne 5-01-1997

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Much of the world sees the peace process in Palestine and Israel as taking place between Muslims and Jews, forgetting that there are many Palestinian Christians who are also affe

The Editors 5-01-1997
Sometimes (well, occasionally) the words and image that we put on our cover come together quickly, seemingly with little effort on our part.
Peter B. Price 5-01-1997

Put God’s saving justice first, says Jesus (Matthew 6:33).

Rose Marie Berger 5-01-1997

Northern cardinal chips away
at the blue light

THANKS FOR THE excellent article "The Issue is Poverty" (March-April 1997). As someone who has worked in the inner city of Brooklyn for 35 years, I agree.

David Host 5-01-1997

THANKS FOR THE blessing of Sojourners magazine. 

Ed Sacco 5-01-1997

I am terribly disappointed with the March-April 1997 issue that claims "white supremacy" is an idol ("Blocking the Prayers of the Church," by Eugene F. Rivers 3d).

Jeremy Lloyd 5-01-1997

WITH SOME truth Rosemary Radford Ruether, as quoted by Aaron Gallegos, suggests environmentalists ignore the issues of race and class.

Lorna Diggle 5-01-1997

I WAS DISMAYED to learn that in serious studies of Mary Magdalene written in the ’90s the gospel according to Mary would have to be "fictionalized".

Bob Francis 5-01-1997

I ENJOYED reading Duane Shank’s article in the January-February 1997 issue ("Call to Renewal" column).

Sheryl Snyder 5-01-1997

I AM WRITING in reference to "H’rumphs"—"The Only Election Guide You’ll Need" (by Ed Spivey Jr., September-October 1996).

Sue Bailey Thurman, 93, died on Christmas day 1996 in San Francisco.

Graham Vimpani 3-01-1997

I DID SO MUCH enjoy reading your series of articles about Henri Nouwen’s untimely (from a human perspective anyway) death.

Perry L. Seymour 3-01-1997

I AM WRITING because I am disturbed by Jill Carroll Lafferty’s review of The Dilbert Principle.

Sue Stine 3-01-1997
A moral and political agenda for 1997.