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The Editors 11-01-1996
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
Sheldon Flory 11-01-1996
DOUG TANNER'S account of becoming "spiritual partners" with Jesse Helms ("Politics Without Demons," September-October 1996) is notable for its Christian forbearance toward an enemy.
Rick Carlson 11-01-1996
I LOVE YOUR magazine and have read it "religiously" for years. In the September-October issue ("Our Unresolved Dilemma"), Sen.
Rev. Daniel B. Hahn 11-01-1996
THERE ARE THREE big lies about welfare that the Far Right has promoted for decades:
Karl Hess 11-01-1996
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT to see-in the same issue with Jim Wallis' article on civility in political discourse-the attack by Wallis on Clinton's decision to sign the welfare bill.
John F. Struzik 11-01-1996
AFTER READING Ed Spivey Jr.'s "H'rumphs," September-October 1996, I am disturbed by his "tongue in cheek" endorsement of Bill Clinton for re-election as president.
Jim Rice, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 11-01-1996
The Pentagon snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating torture, assassination, and kidnapping as t
John Jago 11-01-1996
MY SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER Sojourners arrived today, and as usual there was plenty to think about.
Susie Fetter 11-01-1996
THANKS TO Bert Golding, David Pultz, and Joel Swadesh for writing to protest your harsh criticism of President Clinton's veto of (legislation restricting) third-trimester abortion.
Laurel Blaydes 11-01-1996
THE ARTICLE "From the Church to the Union Hall" ends with the words, "...for surely, in new ways and new places, the songs of working people will rise again."
Mike Gude 11-01-1996
ONE MIGHT THINK from the "Letters" section of the September-October issue that there was overwhelming opposition to Julie Polter's commentary on partial birth abortions.
Rose Marie Berger 9-01-1996
Sarajevo, 1995
I dream now of potatoes—
white, russet, red.
Sentinel potatoes, like Argus,
with eyes everywhere;
watching the dead underground
in the cemetery,
in the stadium,
in the streetcar turnaround.