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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.

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.

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 11-01-2000

The movement against land mines has achieved moderate success since the mine ban treaty became international law in March 1999.

Rod Jellema 11-01-2000

Poetry is like prayer in that it is most effective in
solitude and in the times of solitude as, for
example, in the earliest morning. —Wallace Stevens

Employment Opportunities

  • Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) seeks U.S.
Fred Bahnson 11-01-2000
Radical ecumenism in a land of strife.
The Editors 11-01-2000

Full disclosure must be made: Cheryl and Ralph Broetje once sent us a box of apples after a visit to our office.

Carter Echols 11-01-2000
Bring poverty into the campaign.
Larry Boudreau 11-01-2000

RYAN BEILER'S Commentary "It's A Start" (July-August 2000) identified the members of the human family that were responsible for the IMF/World Bank protest in Seattle and D.C.

DOROTHY DAY is fine where she is ("'Don't Call Me a Saint,'" by Rose Marie Berger, July-August 2000). Look what we've done to Francis of Assisi—he's ended up in a bird bath!

Jeffrey R. Davis 11-01-2000

I WOULD LIKE to respond to some of Ann McClenahan's concerns regarding the "simple living movement" ("Lives of Compassion and Meaning," July-August 2000).

Stephen J. Carr 11-01-2000

I HAVE BEEN a reader of your magazine for many years. I was therefore disturbed by Jim Rice's Commentary on the threat to U.S. workers...

The Editors 11-01-2000

The caption on page 28 of our September-October 2000 issue failed to identify Sister Bernadette Kenny, MMM, who has worked with St.

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 11-01-2000

Despite presidential apologies and lip service to human rights, the Clinton administration continues to offer aid to the Guatemalan and Colombian militaries...