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Peggy Kruse 3-01-2001
I RECEIVED MY January-February 2001 Sojourners yesterday, and I love the new look and the beautiful colors.
Chris Pieper 3-01-2001
I JOIN THE CHORUS of readers who applaud the remodeling of Sojourners. The new feel and attitude invite a different category of reader and adds freshness to the reading experience.
Bob Blackburn 3-01-2001
THE EXIT POLLS ("Between the Lines," January-February 2001) taken on the morning after the election were most revealing.

MY THANKS TO Rose Marie Berger for her excellent article ("Don't Call Me a Saint!").

Last September's primary elections finally put an African American in Selma, Alabama's city hall—a first for the city.

 

Paulist priest and movie producer Ellwood "Bud" Kieser, known as the Father of Hollywood, died September 16. He was 71.

Resources for study and action

"Whatever the turmoil, whatever the divisions among humankind, whatever the violence, the followers of Jesus can refuse to be moved from his transcendent message of peace.

"To serve the 250 grams of beluga caviar it sells for $139, [Neiman Marcus] offers a $1,500...silver-plated bowl ‘supported,' according to the catalog, ‘by a base of graceful sturgeons.'"

Making caskets is fine. But who's going to clean up this mess? Inside their light, fragrant workshop, a handful of monks are hard at work. They're planing. They're ripping.

Michaela Bruzzese 1-01-2001
We commit to proclaiming and living the good news, even when doing so seems absurd.
Beth Isaacson 1-01-2001

Employment Opportunities

The Editors 1-01-2001

We've "renovated" [our print version] and you're invited to check out every nook and cranny. We are excited about the colorful new presentation, fresh layout, and debut offerings.

Linda McCarriston 1-01-2001

Street Person, Portland, Maine: circa 1965

Larry Bellinger 1-01-2001

"Art has the power to heal spiritual, emotional, and physical brokenness."

David Strand 1-01-2001

READING YOUR November-December 2000 issue, I wondered why I hadn't encountered more people in the Green Party movement speaking from a place of faith.

Pat Mitchell 1-01-2001

I JUST READ Elizabeth Newberry's article ("Almost Heaven," November-December 2000). I am also from Bland, Virginia, and it was a very beautiful article.

Marie A. Barrett 1-01-2001

I AM A SHORT-TERM recruiter for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and in a moment of grace I was brought to "Sustaining a Life of Service" by Julienne Gage in the September-October 2000 issue.

ROSE MARIE BERGER'S article on Dorothy Day's eventual canonization ("Don't Call Me a Saint!" July-August 2000) delighted me. Day has been one of my intercessors in heaven.

Msgr. Cris Carcia 1-01-2001

AFTER MANY MONTHS of caring for my parents, especially through my father's final illness and death, I had a chance to read Sojourners, which supports my social and spiritual concerns.