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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.

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.

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

Volunteer Opportunities

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).

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...

The Editors 1-01-1997

Several of our readers have contacted us asking for the date and circumstances of Henri Nouwen's death.

Rose Marie Berger 1-01-1997

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part....

 

I WOULD LIKE to thank you for your article on Jesse Helms in the September-October issue.