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Shawn Means 11-09-1997

A WORD OF thanks for the timely article on Miriam Therese Winter ("From the Inside Out," by Julie Polter and Anne Wayne, July-August 1997).

THANK YOU FOR Raphaelle Kosek's poem "What Van Gogh Saw," which was presented so effectively against the blue background of his self-portrait ("Poetry," July-August 1997).

Julie Polter 11-09-1997

As part of a worldwide boycott of all old-growth redwood products, the World Stewardship Institute is urging faith communities to ban the use of redwood in the construction of worship facilities.

Anne Wayne 11-09-1997
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

People of faith generally applauded the Republican leadership's backing of the Freedom From Religious Persecution Act.

But there is hope in working together.

The debate about the place of religion in the public sphere continues to be played out in all aspects of our society, even on the fields of America's national pastime, baseball.

Rebecca Howard 11-09-1997
A Peruvian school teaches possibility.

Starbucks workers in Vancouver, British Columbia, became the first employees in the 1,300-store coffee chain to unionize...

Daniel Mills 11-09-1997
Advent, 1996

Michael Kelly, the editor of The New Republic, was fired by Martin Peretz, the owner of the magazine.

Jim Rice 11-09-1997

Proper preparation for the incarnation does not include counting down the remaining shopping days 'til Christmas.

The Editors 11-09-1997

During the early '70s, some of the people involved with the founding of Sojourners Community and magazine went on a road trip from Chicago  to Washington, D.C.

THERE HAVE BEEN many times over the many years of my membership in Sojourners that I have almost written—articles that moved, inspired, amused, or delighted me.

Eddie Soto 11-09-1997

I WAS VERY, very pleased with "Turning the World Upside Down," by Aaron Gallegos, in the September-October 1997 issue.

Carolyn Strader 11-09-1997

YOUR EDITORIAL ON Promise Keepers prompted me to respond with some very strong negative feelings that I have about this increasingly popular men's organization.

Karl S. Landstrom 9-01-1997

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN in your July-August 1997 edition has gone too far in generalizing from isolated incidents of violence by military personnel...

Ron Tilley 9-01-1997

JEN KILPS in "Gambling on an Education" (July-August 1997) characterizes income-contingent student loans as being theoretically sound but inaccessible to most students.

IN ONE WAY I entirely agree with the point of view Bob Hulteen expressed about Michael Ondaatje’s revisionist spin of Count Laszlo Almasy in the review of The English Pat