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J.G. Donders 5-01-1998

I WOULD LIKE to thank you in general for the excellent work you have been doing over all those years that I have been a subscriber to your journal.

Dennis Sheppard 5-01-1998

I JUST RECEIVED the January-February issue, and I want to thank you for the articles on male-female equality.

Paul Marshall 5-01-1998

RON DART’S commentary, "Beyond Clan Politics" (January-February 1998), discusses more than my own work, but permit me to focus on it alone.

Cheryl Hendrick 5-01-1998

YOUR MAGAZINE, to which I recently subscribed, is my first exposure to current events in more than 20 years, and my subscribing is the first "social action" I’ve taken in 53 years (well...th

Jeannette P. Davis 5-01-1998

I AM WRITING to thank you for Duane Shank’s article, "Grounded in the Book," in the January-February 1998 issue ("CultureWatch"), and to suggest that Rabbi Joseph Teluskin’s book, Bi

In a remote part of India, the world’s largest democracy, the democratic process came to a grinding halt recently.

The Editors 5-01-1998
WE SEEK OUT most of our articles-solicit them from authors or write them ourselves. Once in a while an article is sent in that fits both our plans and our limited space.
Duane Shank 5-01-1998
Communities pitch in to help people out of poverty.
Martha Townley 5-01-1998

I am a needle sewing...

Carol Fennelly 5-01-1998
An effort to protect churches' public ministries.
Janice D. White 5-01-1998

IN HIS ARTICLE on the drama of the Ted Kaczynski Unabomber proceedings, Joe Nangle asks, "How could two siblings turn out so differently?" ("Life in Community" March-April 1998).

Kristin Brennan 5-01-1998

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

  • Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) seeks volunteers to live in community and work for social justice.

The Clinton administration’s aggressive promotion of U.S. arms sales around the world tops Project Censored’s list of censored or underreported news stories for 1997.

Marian Abrecht 5-01-1998

Resisting the Death Penalty

During the stand-off between the United States and Iraq over that country’s suspected possession of chemical and biological weapons...

While it may be too soon to tell if the 1996 Welfare Reform Act has succeeded in its goal of moving people from welfare to work, there are early signs from the streets that the attempts to make thi

The Editors 3-01-1998
Some say chaos brings creativity.
Larry Brown 3-01-1998

My Lord has lifted been in blackest blue...

Jim Rice 3-01-1998

A few years ago televangelist Robert Schuller proposed that we take another look at the meaning of Lent.

Jesse C. Jones 3-01-1998

Our existing public school systems have better schools in more affluent neighborhoods, and parents choose those schools by buying houses there, usually paying premium prices.