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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael R. Bartley 1-01-2001

I FIND THE QUESTION "Should Joe Lieberman Keep His Faith to Himself?" (by Jim Wallis, November-December 2000) to be a silly little pondering.

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.

Mary Jones 1-01-2001

TOM SINE'S ARTICLE "Branded for Life" on globalization (September-October 2000) was very good.

The presidential elections weren't the only things casting a long shadow over the Sunshine State this fall. 

Nothing talks like money.

Chickens have evidently found a soft place in the hearts of McDonald's management...

While 10,000 protestors gathered outside the gates of the U.S.

Mujerista may not be a familiar term yet, but theologians and others are starting to pay more attention to the voices of Latinas in this country and elsewhere

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.

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"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.