Recently added articles from Sojourners Magazine:
Inside story.
Aug 01, 2008 ... With the party conventions approaching, the presidential campaign officially heads toward the homestretch, and many of us are evaluating the proposals that the candidates and their parties believe will solve some of our most pressing problems. Health issues are certainly at the top of the ...
Redefining church.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Fuchs, Lucy ... It is encouraging to hear how the new generation is approaching religion ("Making Their Mark," June 2008). They seem to want authentic religious experience and service. They also seem to distrust traditional churches and their rituals and practices and have found their own way. ...
Spending our future.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Rausch, John S. ... Thanks for your column in the June issue about the military budget ("A Theft from Those Who Hunger," by Frida Berrigan). I am the director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia and deal firsthand with the opportunity costs of militarism, both in the reductions of vital social programs ...
Beyond apologies.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Beachy, Jonathan ... In "It's a Start" (June 2008), Donald Shriver Jr. rightly addresses the issue of slavery and the need to go beyond apologies. He refers to the "scandalously high number--about 38 percent" of prisoners who are African American. But he does not address the reality of slavery in that setting ....
Sound giving.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Roper, Harrison ... The May 2008 issue on "Putting Your Money Where Your Heart Is" suggests many fine ways of doing just that. However, investing in tax-free municipal bonds was not mentioned. Our latest purchase was to help finance a school in Lewiston, Maine, where there is a burgeoning community of ...
A visit to the ER.(HEARTS & MINDS)(viewing health care as a right)(Essay)
Aug 01, 2008; Wallis, Jim ... Healing is both a major subject of faith and now a global crisis with the breakdown of public health-care systems and the breakout of pandemic diseases. Megachurch pastors hold conferences on HIV/AIDS and malaria, while faith-based organizations are often in the forefront of responding to ...
A matter of life and death: health care for all is a moral imperative.(HEALTH)
Aug 01, 2008; Henry, Mary Kay ... In May, Sen. Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. The news sent shock waves throughout Washington and across the country. The good news is that as an elected official of financial means, Sen. Kennedy has access to the very best medical care available. Shortly after his ...
Overheard.(COMMENTARY)(Quotation)
Aug 01, 2008; Mejia, Camilo ... " ... you basically remove the humanity from [Iraqis] to make it easier to oppress them, to brutalize them, to beat them. And in doing so, ...
Leaving Sing Sing: churches and ex-prisoners help each other find the way.(REDEMPTION)
Aug 01, 2008; Hallundbaek, Hans B. ... With much anticipation I went to visit my friend John Valverde in his new paralegal job in Queens, New York. For years our meeting place had been Sing Sing prison, where he'd spent 16 years behind bars. Each year around 600,000 people are released from prison back to a society ...
Reining in the loan sharks: in Ohio, a victory over predatory lending.(FINANCE)
Aug 01, 2008; Allio, Tom ... Until June, payday lenders in Ohio were free to pursue their predatory business model: They made two-week loans, ranging from $100 to $800, that trapped borrowers into a revolving series of loans from which they had little chance of escaping. In testimony to the Ohio general ...
Making the medicine go down.(SNAPSHOT)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... <Pre> How pharmaceutical companies use money spent on drugs in the U.S. 24.4% advertising and other promotion 13.4% research and development of new drugs The rest of the money goes to (in no particular order) profits, manufacturing, transport, administration, ...
Something rotten?(STATS)(largest portion of the waste stream is food)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Globally, the price of food is skyrocketing, causing riots in developing countries. In the U.S., food banks are running low on donations and high on visitors. At the same time, tons of edible food gets dumped in U.S. garbage cans. But there are a few signs of hope. ...
What Goliath looks like.(Between the Lines)(Amazonas state police forcibly removed indigenous peoples from their land)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An Indigenous Brazilian woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state police. The police were expelling the woman and 200 other landless people from property that the Indigenous say belongs to them in Lagoa Azul, which is in ...
Brother, where art thou?(IRAQ)(internally displaced persons)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Each month, 60,000 Iraqis are forced to leave their homes due to continuing violence, according to a Sept. 2007 report by the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Since 2003, when the U.S. occupation of Iraq began, 2.2 million Iraqis have been internally displaced, 1.4 million have escaped to ...
The proper application of moral principles.(Between the Lines)(Quotation)
Aug 01, 2008; Cahill, Lisa Sowle ... "The proper application of moral principles in a pluralistic society rarely allows for absolutes." ...
Ban cluster bombs.(U.S.)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In May, representatives from more than 100 nations met to forge a global agreement to ban cluster bombs, aerial weapons that release tiny "bomblets" over a wide area and kill indiscriminately. At the Dublin summit, 111 countries formally agreed to end the use, production, transfer, and ...
Bobblehead Benedict.(REAL PRODUCT)(Toy Lounge sells Pope Benedict XVI bobblehead)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Promoted as the first pope to own an iPod, Benedict XVI is sculpted here in perfect polyresin, standing a towering 7 inches high. For $12.95, this great gladiator against relativism will be shipped to you in an illustrated box. The pleasant ...
Weaving reconciliation after war.(Between the Lines)(Path to Peace Project)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... In 1994, Iphigenia Mukantabana's husband and five of her children were brutally murdered by her Hutu neighbors. Now, as a part of a long process of reconciliation in Rwanda, Mukantabana regularly shares meals with her family's killer and his wife. Through a traditional justice process, ...
Dorothy Stang.(Between the Lines)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a retrial in May, a Brazilian court acquitted Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, one of two ranchers who allegedly ordered ...
Heal thyself? When it comes to health care, united we stand a chance, divided we fall.(Cover story)
Aug 01, 2008; Edwards, Elizabeth ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LAST MARCH, after I gave a speech in downtown Cleveland, a woman, pressed and dignified in a business suit, leaned over and whispered in my ear. "My name is Sheila, and I am afraid," she said, her face softening. "I am afraid for myself and for my ...