Commentary

Julie Polter 7-01-1995

Can the words "Christian" or "faith" appear in proximity to political issues? And if they do, what should they mean?

David A. Wade 7-01-1995

Retro is a term used by graphic artists to describe a style of American design from the 1950s.

Oregon voters approved Measure 16, becoming the first state to permit physicians legally to prescribe lethal medications to terminally ill persons who have less than six months to live.

Kari Jo Verhulst 5-01-1995

In the early days of the Gulf war, ABC's Nightline took a break from round-the-clock coverage of lit-up skies and talking dignitaries and shifted its attention to MTV...

Barbara Reynolds 5-01-1995

Can the words "Christian" or "faith" appear in proximity to political issues? And if they do, what should they mean?

Tony Campolo 5-01-1995

Can Christians learn how to disagree without being disagreeable? As we enter the political arena, can we learn to differ without trashing those who disagree with us?

L. Shannon Jung 3-01-1995

A friend and collaborator says that rural America is experiencing a "tremendous dying." I take it that also means that she expects an ensuing resurrection.

Shelley Douglass 3-01-1995

How people responded to the December 30 murders of abortion clinic workers in Massachusetts depended in large part on the ideological position of the responder.

Jim Wallis 3-01-1995

When Newt Gingrich talks these days about his concern for the poor, I wonder if something new and good might happen-or something terrible.

Julie Polter 3-01-1995

When is a fuselage not just a fuselage? To many World War II veterans, the Enola Gay-the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima-is an icon of their deliverance.

Jim Wallis 12-01-1994

When I first heard about The Bell Curve, the new book by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, I remembered an incident last year at Sojourners Neighborhood Center.

Rose Marie Berger 12-01-1994

Christmas came early this year, Lord

Bob Hulteen 12-01-1994

In 1967, two veteran Washington, D.C. police officers confronted a slender African-American man crossing a street...

For years I scoffed at the idea of violence outside abortion clinics. Sure, plenty of violence was going on inside the clinics-more than 4,000 babies killed every day.

And you shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the soul of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt. -Exodus 23:9

Jennifer Johnson 12-01-1994

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, its drafters specified one exception: prisoners.

A tense, cautious hope for a peaceful future in Northern Ireland emerged with the cease-fire called on August 31 by the Irish Republican Army...

Our faith has to be alive and light fires within our confused and fragile hearts or it is as meaningless as yesterday’s E-mail.

Jim Rice 11-01-1994

The occupation of Haiti marks a new, hopeful era in U.S. relations with our neighbors in this hemisphere, signaling the birth of the "Clinton Doctrine"...

Jim Martin-Schramm 11-01-1994

The real story at the U.N. conference on population and development in Cairo this fall was the unprecedented emphasis on the empowerment of women.