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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.

Though Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

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

Don Harting 3-01-1997

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.
Peter B. Price 3-01-1997
Reflections on the revised common lectionary, cycle B.
Anne Wayne 3-01-1997

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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.

IN "HEARTS & MINDS" (September-October 1996), Jim Wallis refers to President Clinton's character problem as though it is a clearly defined, verified fact, rather than a generalized accusation.

An interfaith alliance of religious activists—including Christians, Jews, and Buddhists—has joined other environmentalists...

The National Labor Committee, the group that linked Kathie Lee Gifford's clothing line with sweatshops, is now looking into Disney's production of children's clothing in a Burmese assembly plant.

Dianna Ortiz, the Ursuline nun who vigiled and fasted in front of the White House for six weeks last spring to pressure the government to release the identity of her torturers...