Magazine
Sojourners Magazine: July-August 1999
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Cover Story
I saw it in their empty eyes and hollow cheeks. The ethnic Albanians pouring over the
Kosovo border into Albania for refuge have seen the worst.
Everyone wants to aid refugees. But humanitarian work in the midst of war raises some hard questions---and carries the risk of unintended consequences.
Contrary to popular belief, the Serbian Orthodox church has a history of resisting ultra-nationalism.
Before the war, a vigorous nonviolent movement sought justice for Kosovo. Their call for support from the world went unheeded.
Feature
How can I justify spending time on the things I love - music, gardening, poetry - when the world is so filled with injustice and need?
After James Byrd Jr. was brutally murdered by racists in jasper, Texas, the town did not explode. That wasn't an accident, as black and white churches refused to let hate have the final world.
From almost the beginning to the very end of the Book of Genesis, one theme whirls through many variations: war and peace between brothers (and one pair of sisters).
Commentary
Excerpt from statement on Kosovo by Sojourners and other religious leaders
Can a peaceful future arise out of the blood and ashes of war?
Columns
Congratulations to Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic for winning the United
Nations’ prestigious First War Criminal Still In Office award.
Just over 18 months ago, my mother was dancing at my wedding. Only a month later, my mom discovered that she had cancer of the abdominal lining.
With our family's move last year from urban Jackson, Mississippi, to small-town Vermont, I exchanged the blackest state for the whitest and neighborhood drive-bys for wild turkey dive-bys.
Little Calumet Christian Fellowship is the first Mennonite church in North America to intentionally form a Generation X congregation with pastoral leadership from within that generation.
Culture Watch
That Howard Thurman is not a household name is a situation that may soon change.
Departments
Project Censored listed the Multinational Agreement on Investment’s threat to U.S.
Nearly 4,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., in May to tell President Clinton and
Congress that the U.S. training of Latin American death squads must stop.
Following the story of Jesus’ path to Golgotha, 150 people gathered on Good Friday
at the U.S. Capitol for the Economic Way of the Cross.
Continuing their two-year vigil, locked-out Detroit newspaper workers brought their protests in May to the Washington, D.C. area home of Gannett Company CEO John Curley.
So much talk was on the Dow breaking 10,000 that hardly anyone noticed the decline in
net worth of the average worker.
Technology, of course, is a mixed blessing. But especially for those working in difficult and far-flung situations, e-mail can be vital for much more than relaying the latest office humor.
While reporting in Peru three years ago, American journalist Lori Berenson was
convicted of treason and imprisoned after a trial by a hooded judge in a military
tribunal.
Starting on Sunday, May 16, thousands of people of faith around the United States, Europe, and Yugoslavia have held candlelight prayer vigils on local bridges and overpasses as a witness for peace in Yugoslavia...
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) revealed in April an alternative to the U.S. government’s radioactive waste disposal plans.