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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."

Peter B. Price 11-01-1996
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary
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. 

Duane Shank 11-01-1996
Inspiring the faithful to be the "moral locomotive for social change."

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, has announced that the cancer he was treated for in June 1995 has returned.

Julienne Gage 11-01-1996
Tibetan Aid Project. Manufacturing Consent. Against Forgetting.

Some are calling it "a pivotal moment." Others have labeled it "flawed and dangerous."

Judy Coode 11-01-1996
Organizing to narrow the gap between rich and poor in America

Seventy-five years after its creation, a statue of suffragists Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will at long last join the all-male statuary of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda...

Brett Grainger 11-01-1996
Volunteer Opportunities

The Editors 11-01-1996
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
The Editors 11-01-1996

When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.

Martha Zweig 11-01-1996

Baby don't cry:

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.

Chinese pro-democracy activist Harry Wu led 1,000 protestors to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., to kick off Amnesty International's Annual General Meeting in June.

Renee Brewer 9-01-1996

Letter to the Editors

The Editors 9-01-1996

From the Editors

How shall we live as disciples of Jesus the Christ? The readings for these winding-down weeks of the year all address that question. These scriptures raise painful inner and outer questions of nonviolence. Many of them deal with gospel economics, the economics of the heart and the economics of the purse. The gospel is neither solely personal nor solely political. It embraces and transforms both—at the cross.

This is our sixth and final "Living the Word." We again alternate Sundays, this time with Jim doing the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth, and Shelley the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth.