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Julie Polter 3-01-1997
Building relationship between people of faith and the workers' rights movement.
The Editors 3-01-1997
Following President Clinton's signing of the federal "welfare reform" legislation last August, three top administration officials resigned in protest.
Priscilla Atkins 3-01-1997

From below,
it looks like a young woman

Lisa Y. Sullivan 3-01-1997

I WANT TO thank Sojourners for honoring the life and work of Nellie Jean Sindab in the January-February 1997 issue ("Labors of Love").

Jeff Shriver 3-01-1997

I WANT TO congratulate Jim Rice on a fine article on the spirituality of leisure ("Why Play?" January-February 1997).

Paul del Junco 3-01-1997

AFTER READING your articles on play and work ("Why Play?," by Jim Rice, and "Why Work?," by Julie Polter), I continue to be amazed that no one I have read recently, from the pope...

Jay Miller 3-01-1997

I AGREE WITH Jim Wallis’ contention in the January-February 1997 issue ("Hearts & Minds")—we must find another way besides the political Right or Left.

Graham Miller 3-01-1997

I RECEIVED MY first issue of Sojourners and was ecstatic to find not only a hint of an article about Henri Nouwen on the front cover, but several articles about him inside.

Though Martin Luther King Jr.

Don Harting 3-01-1997

MY WIFE THINKS I’m weird. She tells my friend I can’t talk because I’m busy.

Catholic theologian and priest Tissa Balasuriya was excommunicated for heresy from the Roman Catholic Church in January.

Gary Cummings 3-01-1997

I AM A PENTECOSTAL (though I don’t really think the term is scriptural) Christian who has just recently discovered your magazine.

While many people of conscience in the United States are aware of the plight of political prisoners in countries around the world, Americans rarely hear about those locked up in

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.

Peter B. Price 1-01-1997
Reflections on the revised common lectionary, cycle B.
Hans Hallundback 1-01-1997
A theological program in Sing Sing prison rehabilitates and renews.
Warren L. Molton 1-01-1997

If God is this winter wheat

The Editors 1-01-1997

Our cover story is a tribute to Jean Sindab, a tireless worker for peace and justice and a joy-filled and fun-loving woman who died a year ago this month of cancer.