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Cover Story

In the Name of Relief
A Look at Private U.S. Aid in the Contra Territory  by Vicki Kemper

Features

Journey to Wholeness
The Healing Power of Prayer  by Kenneth L. Bakken

Is There No Balm in Gilead?
The Hope and Despair of Jeremiah  by Walter Brueggemann

About Face
An ROTC Cadet Becomes a Conscientious Objector  by Liane Rozzell

Commentary

Witness for Peace Held Hostage: The Story of the "Peace Flotilla" Kidnapping
An Interview with Ed and Elizabeth Griffin-Nolan  by the Editors of Sojourners

The Thinking Heart
A Feminine Spirituality from the Holocaust  by Elizabeth O'Connor

An Original American Radical
Saul Alinsky and Community Organizing  by Steven Hall-Williams

The Movements of Conversion
Finding a new direction in life  by Michael Downey

Bookmarks
Annotations  by Conrad Hoover

The Art of Science
A Pop View of American Technocracy  by Ed Richardson

Reopening the Frontier
The Man with No Name Rides Again  by Danny Collum

A Love That Kills
A Mockery of Underworld Shenanigans  by Lindsay McLaughlin

Columns

Advocate: Christians and Contras
by Jim Wallis

Advocate: State of Emergency
by Liane Rozzell

Advocate: 'The Unique Concerns of Women'
by Vicki Kemper

Advocate: Publisher's Memo
by Joe Roos

Wayfare: Beauty and Danger
by Joyce Hollyday

Marginal Notes: Hope in Northern Ireland
by Jim Wallis

Soundings: I Call Her "Nicaraguita"
A North American Glimpse of Nicaragua  by Sher Horosko

Culture Watch

D'escoto's Fast
Compiled and edited by Steven Hall-Williams

The Ribbon
Compiled and edited by Steven Hall-Williams

Women Confer
Compiled and edited by Steven Hall-Williams

Stun Gun Use
Compiled and edited by Steven Hall-Williams

Typo Trick
Compiled and edited by Steven Hall-Williams

Departments

Letters
| Gift of Sexuality |

Seeds
Compiled and edited by Sandra Shenk

Poetry: Matins
by Suzanne Jay

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Connections