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Sojourners Magazine: September-October 1993

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Cover Story

Feature

Attracted and repelled by the Mall of America
Jesus and the art of grocery buying.

Commentary

When schools mandate community service, enhanced self-esteem is often a result.
Finding truly inspirational sports celebrities
Environmental issues affect more than the plants
More bombings beg the question of who is really in control in this country
The nation's education crisis is great news for Madison Avenue.

Columns

Summer movies and other reflections from the art director
Memories of the Fourth of July
Reflections on ten years of ministry at the Sojourners Neighborhood Center
On missing William Stringfellow
What are the actual benefits of the Flavr Savr tomato?

Culture Watch

Living with hope and assurance in a world gone astray.
New Order breaks down barriers on the dance floor.
The new fall television season is upon us. And with it for the first time comes the advent of network warning "labels" on violent entertainment programming.
A review of the film Menace II Society 
Screening children's computer games.
The reel life of Father Robert Castle
The cyberpunk movement of the early 1980s

Departments

I MUST DISAGREE with Vera Boone, who in criticizing the Seamless Garment Network ("Postmark," July 1993) expressed support for the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and said that FOCA was an important p
The garden itself isn't so remarkable: some tomatoes, sweet peas, and greens growing amongst the lettuce, zucchini, and assorted flowers in a 30-foot by 30-foot plot.
IN REGARDS TO the article "An Islamic Threat?"
THE JUNE 1993 article "The Healing Game," by Gordon Bonnyman, was very interesting and clarified many things.
Despite evidence of widespread use of child labor in Bangladesh, Wal-Mart increased imports from the country 113 percent over the first part of 1993.
Living the Word for September and October
RON SIDER'S ARTICLE on evangelism and social action was especially enlightening as we are trying to combine calling for repentance with taking responsibility for social sin.
WHO IS TO BLAME for the atrocity that occurred in Waco (see "On The Way," by Jim Wallis, May 1993)? The FBI propaganda is that Koresh alone is to blame. I don't swallow that line.
After history's worst nuclear power accident at Chernobyl in 1986, the U.S. Congress instructed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to take a hard look at nuclear plants in this country.
The unwieldy work of the Spirit
THE CONCLUDING sentence of "Murder in the Name of Life," by Marie Dennis ("UpFront," July 1993), bears repeating