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Marian Abrecht 5-01-1998

Resisting the Death Penalty

Jim Rice 5-01-1998

Genuine faith is never a private matter, something hidden away in one’s mind and spirit.

"HONEST, UNFLINCHING, Prophetic"? Those are the words you use on your back cover to describe Sojourners.

Ken Saunders 5-01-1998

I JUST CALLED Ed Spivey, author of the monthly "H’rumphs," to thank him for his most recent effort (March-April 1998).

Michael Berezowski 5-01-1998

A neighbor lent me his January-February 1998 issue knowing that I am an Eastern Rite Catholic (also known as the Byzantine Rite).

Douglas W. Smith 5-01-1998

I’M AFRAID THAT just when some wealthy individuals are organizing to ensure that their charity helps to reverse the unjust economic policies of our nation, Ted Turner’s widely publicize

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.
Martha Townley 5-01-1998

I am a needle sewing...

Duane Shank 5-01-1998
Communities pitch in to help people out of poverty.
Kristin Brennan 3-01-1998

Volunteer Opportunities

Longtime peacemakers Daniel and Philip Berrigan were nominated for the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize by Mairead Maguire. Maguire won the prize in 1976 for working for peace in Northern Ireland.

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.