THANKS VERY MUCH for your thoughtful, comprehensive treatment of the AIDS epidemic in Africa in your July-August 2000 issue.
Departments
Mike Mitchell 11-01-2000
ROSE MARIE BERGER'S Commentary "Conduct Unbecoming" (September-October 2000) was a provocative and thoughtful piece.
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
Elizabeth Newberry, Beth Isaacson 11-01-2000
Employment Opportunities
- Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) seeks U.S.
Vic Turner 9-01-2000
CHRIS RICE COULD have signed my name to his May-June 2000 "Grace Matters" column.
Helen Daniels 9-01-2000
THANK YOU FOR Chris Rice’s "What I Learned When I Spoke Up About Gay Rights." I applaud his support of gay civil rights and continuing dialogue between our divided communities.
Shirley Ann Handley 9-01-2000
REV. BILLY has the right idea ("Clowns and Poets and Artists—Oh, My!" by Julie Polter, July-August 2000).
Greagoir O'Cearullain 9-01-2000
"A PUNISHING DECADE," by Ryan Beiler (May-June 2000), was right about the "static" figures for "estimated" incarceration in the United States.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
It’s not just civil wars, AIDS, or other diseases that have brought suffering to sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
Mounting criticism of national missile defense by scientific and military experts has corporations such as Boeing on the defensive as they try to secure multibillion dollar contracts
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
In most American "community watch" groups, residents report suspicious activity to the authorities.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
Protesting campaign finance corruption and the "dumb or dumber" choices of many current elections, activist filmmaker Michael Moore is asking Americans to vote for potted plants...
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
As Bishop Samuel Ruiz, liberation theologian and champion of Chiapas’ indigenous peoples, faced mandatory retirement at age 75, many feared what would come next.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 9-01-2000
"No matter how we pray, nor how we sin, we can stand up for each other. We can stand up against hate."—Republican Sen.