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I WOULD LIKE to copy your article "A Cry for Atonement" (by Rabbi Michael Lerner, January-February 2001) and send it to all the lawmakers who make a difference in the Middle East situation.

Jennifer Harbury's eight-year fight for justice in the death of her husband, Guatemalan resistance leader Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, has ended in victory.

John Maycumber 3-01-2001

TAG EVERS' ARTICLE on Contemporary Christian Music ("Fiddling While Rome Burns," January-February 2001) reminded me of a long debated question among those of us in the actual biz...

The Alliance of Religions and Conservation and the World Wildlife Fund brought together 11 major faiths-representing some 4 billion people-to ask that very question.

Stanley Lorencki 3-01-2001

YOUR 'GRACE MATTERS' by Chris Rice ("Is That Racism on Your Shoe?" November-December 2000) was interesting. If Chris Rice is honest and credible, he should marry a black person to prove it.

Leading Venezuelan educators and critics of President Hugo Chavez are calling his creation of 500 schools constructed and supervised by the military a political program for "ideological indoctrin

Celeste King 3-01-2001

WRITING 'FAN LETTERS' is not something I do, yet after reading through all of your November-December 2000 issue of Sojourners I felt so grateful that I want to share my feelings.

Convicted murderer and gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace.

According to the United Nations, one child in four lives in an unstable, often violent, environment. The World Council of Churches is determined to change those statistics-one city at a time.

The United Farm Workers union has called off its 16-year boycott of California table grapes, citing recent organizing and contract victories as the reason.

April 23-29 is national "Turn off Your TV" week. Coincidentally, it is also "Roll Back the Rug and Teach the Kids the Electric Slide" week.

John Sage is low-key in approach and evangelistic in mission: Save the world through coffee. Can't be done, you say?

54 percent of global billionaires are in the United States

Bette McDevitt 3-01-2001
'When the children are well enough to go home, it is a gift to me.'

The YouthPeace organizing packet has graphics, media information, literature lists, and training, workshop, and organizing ideas for local youth activists.

Beth Isaacson 3-01-2001

Employment Opportunities

  • Married couple wanted for innovative new public charter school and foster home near Taos, N.M.
Michaela Bruzzese 3-01-2001

Only when we know ourselves as broken yet fiercely loved can we share the gift of new life.

The Editors 3-01-2001

The best art bears truth-personal, communal, or both.

I FOUND YOUR article on "Virtual Hate" (by Stacia Brown, September-October 2000).
Peggy Kruse 3-01-2001
I RECEIVED MY January-February 2001 Sojourners yesterday, and I love the new look and the beautiful colors.