Washington Memo
January-February 2007/Volume
XXXIX, No. 1
Advocating for God's Creation: Young Adults Speak Out
- Environment and Change
- Step by Step
- A Slice of the Cake
- Shift in the Political and Natural Environment: Germany and U.S.
- Urgently Developing a Need to Teach Environmentalism
- Trade: The Environmental Side
- Will the U.S. Choose the Healing Path?
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November-December 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No. 6
Living with Hope
- Living with Hope
- Fork in the Road
- Colombia: Hope in Crisis
- Hope, Advocacy and Healthcare
- A Plea for Remembrance, Justice and Healing
- Is There a Home for Hope in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
- Finding Hope in Sudan
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September-October 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No.5
Human Rights and Civil Liberties: A Five-Year Retrospective
- Our Changed World
- Rule of Law
- Less than Sneaky Recruitment Efforts
- Conscientious Objection in a Post-Sept. 11 World
- Promoting Human Rights at Home and Abroad
- Hammers and Nails
- Muslim Americans Since Sept. 11
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July-August 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No.4
Militarism: A Five-Year Retrospective
- The (Disastrous) Rise of (Misplaced) Power
- A Tribute to Delton
- Militarism and its Environmental Effects
- Permanent Bases in Iraq
- U.S.-Iran Relations: Reproach or Rapprochement?
- Militarism and Latin America
- India's Bid for Nuclear Energy
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May-June 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No.3
The Federal Budget: A Five-Year Retrospective
- What About the Children?
- Health Cuts Hit Hard in Appalachia
- Balancing the Budget
- Budget Process 101
- Minimum Wages Crying Out
- Inadequate Funding for HIV/AIDS
- Prayer and Action for Colombia
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March-April 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No.2
Immigration and Border Militarization: A Five-Year Retrospective
- Migration Toward Fear Since 9/11
- The State of the Border
- Undocumented and Unwelcome in New Orleans
- The Plight of Refugees
- Trade and Migration
- MCC Migrates
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January-February 2006/Volume
XXXVIII, No.1
The War on Terror: A Five-Year Retrospective
- Losing Our Lives
- Africa's War on Terror
- From Dictator to Chaos
- Levees and Walls
- For Such a Time as This
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November-December 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.6
Global Food and Farming: Safe Space for Common Ground
- You Give Them Food
- Hurricanes and the Lost
- Eating: A Political Act?
- Farmers' Trade Concerns
- Dialogue on Trade
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September-October 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.5
Civil Liberties: Safe Space for Common Ground
- Justice for All?
- Rights Around the World
- Essential Freedoms
- Immigration Reform
- Dialogue on Civil Liberties
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July-August 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.4
The Environment: Safe Space for Common Ground
- After the Guns Fall Silent
- Learning from the Land
- Dialogue on the Environment
- Subsidies or Sweepings?
- Sound the Trumpet!
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May-June 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.3
Military Force: Safe Space for Common Ground
- View From the Ground
- Cuba: Unrelenting Hostility
- Dialogue on Military Force
- International Objectors
- Vietnam: Agent Orange
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March-April 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.2
Social Safety Net: Safe Space for Common Ground
- Double Negative
- Crime Prevention
- Clean and Green?
- Social Security
- The State's Role
- The Church's Role
- Sound the Trumpet!
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January-February 2005/Volume
XXXVII, No.1
Moral Values: Safe Space for Common Ground
- Practicing What We Preach?
- Safe Space Guidelines
- Weightier Matters
- Hard Questions
- Enduring Issues
- High Ground on Trade
- Sound the Trumpet!
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November-December 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.6
Overcoming Evil With Good: Naming the Fears Behind U.S.
Security Policies
- If Not War, Then What?
- Humility in Vietnam
- Red Beans for All
- There is No "Away"
- Peace Without Guns
- Rapid Response Churches
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September-October 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.5
Fear of Strangers: Naming the Fears Behind U.S. Security
Policies
- Hostility or Hospitality?
- A Place for Prisoners
- Persecution to Prejudice
- Ethnic Conflict
- Apple Pie American
- Walking in Migrants' Shoes
- Sound the Trumpet!
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July-August 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.4
Fear of Violence: Naming the Fears Behind U.S. Security
Policies
- Refusing to Recycle
- Drones or Arks?
- The Threat of Death
- Colombia Stories
- Winning High School Essays
- Sound the Trumpet!
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May-June 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.3
Fear of Scarcity: Naming the Fears Behind U.S. Security
Policies
- A Broad Place
- Crossing the (Poverty) Line
- Who's Afraid of Free Trade?
- Prison Towns Lock Out Restoration
- The Bottom of the Barrel
- Philadelphia: Casting Out Fear
- Sound the Trumpet!
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March-April 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.2
Fear of Vulnerability: Naming the Fears Behind U.S. Security
Policies
- What Do We Do With Jesus?
- War on Drugs
- Airport Insecurity
- Bread or Bombs?
- Aid and AIDS
- Iraq: This is Vulnerability
- Sound the Trumpet!
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January-February 2004/Volume
XXXVI, No.1
Why Are You Afraid?: Naming the Fears Behind U.S. Security
Policies
- God’s Gracious Hand
- Stranger Danger?
- Global Warming
- North Korea
- Fear and Free Trade
- Guns or Whistles?
- Occupational Hazards
- Sound the Trumpet!
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November-December 2003/Volume
XXXV, No.6
Gifts Discernment: The Priesthood of All Believers
- Dictated Democracy?
- Immigrants Rights
- WTO: Elite Defeat
- U.N.: Still Relevant
- Civil Liberties
- Discerning Gifts
- Sound the Trumpet!
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September-October 2003/Volume XXXV,
No.5
Honoring Sabbath: A Day for Rest and Justice
- Keep it Holy
- Sabbath from Guns
- Rest for the Land
- Jubilee Justice
- Tired of Depleted Uranium
- Gas Tank Sundays
- Sound the Trumpet!
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July-August 2003/Volume XXXV, No.4
Child Dedication: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
- Bread or Stones?
- Orphaned by AIDS
- Winning Essays
- Fair Child Care
- Juvenile Justice
- Dedicated to Kids
- Sound the Trumpet!
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May-June 2003/Volume XXXV, No.3
Foot Washing: Leading by Example
- True Power
- Secure Enough to Serve
- Today’s Lepers
- Clean and Healthy Feet
- Broken Trust
- Sudan: Forgotten Again
- Feet and Bathtubs
- Sound the Trumpet!
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March-April 2003/Volume XXXV, No.2
The Lord’s Supper: Lessons for Church and State
- Modeling Sacrificial Love
- God’s Mystery
- Colombia
- Coffee Crisis
- Child Nutrition
- Gun Violence
- Congregational Stories
- Sound the Trumpet!
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January-February 2003, Volume XXXV, No.1
Baptism: A Witness to the Nations
- From Church Practice to Public Policy
- Baptized Into One Body
- Prison Rape
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Welcome Home?
- Breaking Down Barriers
- Sound the Trumpet!
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November-December 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.6
Thy Kingdom Come
- Ambassadors for Christ
- Language Barrier
- Church Statements
- Diverse Views
- Tied in Knots
- MCC and Government
- Costly War with Iraq
- Sound the Trumpet!
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September-October 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.5
Church and State: One Standard or Two?
- Two Kingdoms, Two Callings?
- Double-Minded?
- In the World - Even if Not by Choice
- Winning High School Essays
- Does God Have Two Standards?
- God’s Purpose for the State
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July-August 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.4
Security - At What Cost?
- Civil Liberties in a New Era
- Balancing Act
- Law or Vengeance for Guantanamo Detainees?
- Are We Losing our Civil Liberties?
- Liberty and Justice for All, or Just for the U.S.-Born?
- Depraved Security Measures
- An American Muslim Speaks Out
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May-June 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.3
Militarism, Post 9-11
- Relevant Pacifism
- Mandatory Military Service
- Foreign Aid for a More Just and Secure World
- Getting Our Priorities Straight
- North Korea: Axis of Evil?
- The Majority as the Voice of God?
- American Militarism as Seen from Iran
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March-April 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.2
How Others See Us
- Better an Open Rebuke...
- Race, Faith and Policy Divided?
- U.S. Foreign Policy Breeds Anti-American Sentiments
- U.S. Foreign Policy: Incompatible with Nation-State Building in Sub-Saharan
Africa
- You Cannot Serve God and Money
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January-February 2002/Volume XXXIV, No.1
For Righteousness Sake - Blessed are the Persecuted
- A Blessed and Besieged Witness
- A Good Witness
- Sacrifice of Our Lives
- Hard Act to Follow
- Racial Profiling
- A Redeemed Humanity
- Different Kind of Logic
- Year in Review
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November-December 2001/Volume XXXIII, No.6
Spirituality & Politics - Blessed are the Pure in Heart
- Politics From the Heart
- Eyes to See
- Lone Voice
- Unwavering Welcome
- Secure Energy
- Economic Justice
- Moving Mountains
- Sound the Trumpet!
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September-October 2001/Volume XXXIII,
No.5
People of God’s Peace - Blessed are the Peacemakers
- God’s Children
- Death Penalty
- Essay Winners
- Seniors For Peace
- Reclaiming the Land
- Sound the Trumpet!
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July-August 2001/Volume XXXIII, No.4
Welfare Reform - Blessed are Those who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
- Showing Mercy
- Globalization in U.S.
- Reforming “Reform”
- Indian Country
- Appalachia
- Sound the Trumpet!
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May-June 2001/Volume XXXIII, No.3
U.S. Global Dominance - Blessed are the Meek
- Stretch Limos
- Crayon Weapons
- Climate Bully
- Tax Cut Idols
- War on Drugs
- Conquest of Humility
- Sound the Trumpet!
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March-April 2001/Volume XXXIII, No.2
Economic Globalization - Blessed are Those Who Mourn
- Comfort for All
- Vietnam
- Economic Underside
- War on Migrants
- Death Penalty
- Song of a Siren
- Sound the Trumpet!
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January-February 2001/Volume XXXIII, No.1
What’s Ahead? - Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
- Rich Blessings
- Whither Jubilee?
- Guns and Death
- Towards Redemption
- Welfare to Work
- Challenges Ahead
- Religious Liberty
- Year in Review
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November-December 2000/Volume XXXII, No.6
Myths
- Rolling Away the Stone
- Peace Tax Fund
- U.S. Generosity
- Welfare Reform
- Lighter Fluid in Flames
- Where is the Peace?
- Sound the Trumpet!
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September-October 2000/Volume XXXII, No.5
Lessons from Selma
- Too Turned Off?
- The Money Loophole
- Where Do They Stand?
- In Others’ Words
- Sound the Trumpet!
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July-August 2000/Volume XXXII, No.4
Lifting our Voices
- Quiet in the Land?
- Death Penalty
- Iraq Solidarity Fast
- Million Mom March
- Spirit-Filled Action
- One in 1200
- Sound the Trumpet!
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