Iraq war
Please don't let the war against Iraq be invisible in your magazine's pages! The Episcopal Church is one of many that are speaking out against the sanctions that are killing thousands of Iraqi children every month. Please make sure that your magazine speaks out against this evil!
Marjorie Schier
Levittown, PA

Tell me a story
In Ina Hughes' piece on "Doing theology through personal narrative" [TW 12/00] she refers to "Heinrich Schumann." The name is "Heinrich Schliemann," and the "actual remains of Troy" is still in doubt. But her point, "Tell me a story and I will remember," is excellent -- like "teach me to fish."
Peter Friend
Wolfeboro, NH

Living up to a name
Stay with the name of The Witness. It has a long and honorable history and is on target.
We in this diocese have a standing commission on Prophetic Witness to Technology and the Culture. There is an ongoing effort to leave out the part about witness, but it is still there! After all, if we only "observe" the culture and say nothing to the culture, what good have we done?
Bishop Jim Pike's best book, I believe, was Doing the Truth, his book on ethics. He reminds us that Jesus says not to just SEEK the truth. He says if you love me, DO the truth.
Ward McCabe
San Jose, CA

'The People of the Land' in the Americas
A friend just gave me a copy of the current [Jan/Feb 2001] issue of The Witness, your fine publication. Rarely, if ever, have I seen such sensitivity to the concerns of indigenous and powerless peoples of the earth, especially in a church publication. Keep up the good work.
Michael L. Yoder
Department of Sociology,
Northwestern College
Orange City, IA

Challenging
a Greedy World
I like your magazine a lot -- just received "Challenging a Greedy World" -- an impressive documentation of the terrible injustices in today's world.
Marlies Parent
North Stonington, CT

Remembering Sam Day
Sam Day, Jr., longtime journalist and peace activist, died Jan. 26, 2000, in Madison, Wis., following a stroke. Day was coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu (the Israeli activist imprisoned for exposing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program). He contributed stories to The Witness on Vanunu and other topics, including his experience of blindness following a stroke he suffered in1991, while in prison for distributing literature against the Gulf War.
Day's career included serving as managing editor of The Progressive and editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In the former capacity, he won a 1979 court battle against a government restraining order that forbade The Progressive to publish an article that described how a hydrogen bomb works. He also founded Nukewatch, a campaign to identify nuclear weapons transportation routes.
In 1982, Day traveled to South Africa to report on that country's secret nuclear weapons program. Over the past two decades, he has been arrested numerous times and has served state and federal prison terms for nonviolent civil disobedience at U.S. military and nuclear weapons installations. -- The Witness' staff