Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: November-December 1996
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Cover Story
Feature
It's 4:20 p.m.
I'm standing over the Olympic soccer stadium in Sarajevo. From
one goal post to the other are graves-headstones of various sizes
and shapes, most unmarked.
The gift and struggle of Henri Nouwen’s life.
The gift and struggle of Henri Nouwen’s life.
IT WAS A WONDERFUL sunny Sunday morning in June 1996. In high spirits our group left the Franciscan monastery at Rama, in central Bosnia, to drive to the small mountain village of Podhum.
I especially remember one visit among many to Sojourners by Henri Nouwen.
Commentary
Conspiracy buffs couldn't have concocted a more compelling story.
Columns
"Death sucks." Five years ago this was the opening of a eulogy by a minister for a mutual friend who died tragically.
A recent survey, taken in a school for upper-middle-class American children, surfaced a startling statistic.
I'm beginning this column at about 30,000 feet, en route to Akron, Ohio. We're doing the Who Speaks for God?
What time-honored edible has all of the following: the warmth and comfort of hot bread; the fragrance of a baking cake; the staying power of potatoes and gravy
Culture Watch
Departments
THERE ARE THREE big lies about welfare that the Far Right has promoted for decades:
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, has announced that the cancer he was treated for in June 1995 has returned.
THANKS TO Bert
Golding, David Pultz, and Joel Swadesh for writing to protest
your harsh criticism of President Clinton's veto of (legislation
restricting) third-trimester abortion.
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT to see-in the same issue with Jim Wallis' article on civility in political discourse-the attack by Wallis on Clinton's decision to sign the welfare bill.
When a beloved person dies abruptly, first the bad news flies, short and rending.
Some are calling it "a pivotal moment." Others have labeled it "flawed and dangerous."
AFTER READING Ed Spivey Jr.'s "H'rumphs," September-October 1996, I am disturbed by his "tongue in cheek" endorsement of Bill Clinton for re-election as president.
Seventy-five years after its creation, a statue of suffragists Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will at long last join the all-male statuary of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda...
MY SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER Sojourners arrived today, and as usual there was plenty to think about.
The Pentagon
snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School
of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating
torture, assassination, and kidnapping as t
DOUG TANNER'S account of becoming "spiritual partners" with Jesse Helms ("Politics Without Demons," September-October 1996) is notable for its Christian forbearance toward an enemy.
Inspiring the faithful to be the "moral locomotive for social change."
THE ARTICLE "From the Church to the Union Hall" ends with the words, "...for surely, in new ways and new places, the songs of working people will rise again."
I LOVE YOUR magazine and have read it "religiously" for years. In the September-October issue ("Our Unresolved Dilemma"), Sen.
Tibetan Aid Project. Manufacturing Consent. Against Forgetting.
ONE MIGHT THINK from the "Letters" section of the September-October issue that there was overwhelming opposition to Julie Polter's commentary on partial birth abortions.