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Donna Acquaviva 1-01-1999

GIL DAWES' CRITIQUE of the PBS Frontline documentary The Farmer's Wife ("The Face and Fate of Family Farms," September-October 1998) was excellent and, for the most part, I agreed with it.

Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999

Iraq isn't the only country to turn away bomb inspectors.

IT WAS WITH great interest that I read Judith Gundry-Volf's response to the Southern Baptist Convention's statement regarding the duty of wives to submit to their husbands.

Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999

Top officials from the National Council of Churches and the NAACP came to the U.S. Supreme Court in October to testify that the court should hire more minorities as law clerks.

Gary Olson 1-01-1999

BRAVO ON YOUR special issue on the church and labor ("Good Works," September-October 1998). One omission was any mention of the Labor Party, an alternative to the twin parties of big business.

Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999

Well, not that kind of Irish bishop.

Bob Saverine 1-01-1999

I REALLY COULDN'T believe what I read in "Big Labor and Big Business" ("Letters," November-December 1998) which included the statement "...the AFL-CIO doesn't care about people any more than doesn't care about people any more than does Lee lacooca.

Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999

The Environmental Working Group resigned last October from a presidential advisory panel created to bring together farm and environmental interests on the issue of pesticides.

Larry Boudreau 1-01-1999

DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM'S article "Diagnosis Determines Cure", as a critique of The Communist Manifesto, offered some fine insights into that 19th-century publication.

Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999

United Methodist Bishop Joseph Sprague filed a formal complaint in October against the Rev.

New beginnings, on the Web and in the world.
Carol Fennelly 1-01-1999
A historic gathering on the churches and welfare reform.
The Editors 1-01-1999
Nuclear abolition on the cover of Sojourners? Isn't that awfully retro, a flashback to the same-old same-old? A high-ranking military officer in full uniform on the cover of Sojourners?

I accept the cardinal that comes to the tree...

Kristine Jensen 1-01-1999

Architects Building Better Communities

Kristin Brennan 1-01-1999

Christ House, a residential medical facility for homeless men in northwest Washington, D.C., has yearlong, full-time volunteer opportuni

Warren Magnuson 1-01-1999

IN HIS ARTICLE "Is Islam the Enemy?" Charles Kimball states that "Muslims worship the same God as Christians and Jews." 

THE QUESTION "Is Islam the Enemy?" (by Charles Kimball, No- vember-December 1998) is so clearly repudiated in your current issue.

Jubilee Bartlett 1-01-1999

I READ THE commentary by Robert Jewett ("The Abandonment of Trust," November-December 1998), and while I agree that by his "campaign of lies" President Clinton has damaged public trust in our political institutions

The Editors 1-01-1999

In our November-December 1998 issue, the caption for the photo on page 31 was incorrect.