Addictions Ministry
COVER STORY The Rev. Dr. Denis Meacham's innovative program is a model for other churches. /BY MICHELLE BATES DEAKIN
SIDEBAR You can help: Practical ways family and friends can assist /BY ANNE M. FLETCHER

Homecoming
Extracts from a poem cycle reflecting on the Middle Passage from Africa to America. /BY EVERETT HOAGLAND

No Classroom Walls
More Unitarian Universalists than ever are choosing homeschooling alternatives to public schools. /BY DONALD E. SKINNER

Commentary. Choose your enemies carefully /BY FORREST CHURCH
Wayside Pulpit. Sins /BY ELBERT HUBBARD
Heritage. The liberal way /BY ADLAI STEVENSON
Creations. Apples in August; Day and Night /BY RUTH CHATFIELD
Odyssey. Still hungry /BY KRIS FIKKAN
Creations. Summer /BY SUSAN AVISHAI
Advice. Humanists, go public /BY KHOREN ARISIAN
Poem. Having evolved from grass /BY THOM WARD
Affirmations. Elevator speeches
Inside Out. Cartoon /BY CHARLES BARSOTTI
Lesson. Arms up /BY J.M. JACKSON

Opening Words. /BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU
From the Editor. A word about our sponsors /BY TOM STITES
Our Calling. Grow with religious education /BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM G. SINKFORD
Letters. /BY OUR READERS
Contributors. 
Forum. Cohousing: What's so UU about it? /BY JOANI BLANK
Congregational Life. Fair Trade coffee
Spiritual Landmark. The Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Bookshelf. Walden at 150 /BY RICHARD HIGGINS
Book to note. Singing the Seventh Principle /BY CHRISTOPHER L. WALTON
Living Tradition. The monk and the sage /BY ELIZABETH NAPP
Books by UU Authors. /COMPILED BY KENNETH SUTTON
What in the World? Discussion topics on UU World articles /BY JANE GREER
Looking Back. Kindergarten's radical advocate /BY CHRISTOPHER L. WALTON

UUA.
     UUs mobilize to register voters /BY DONALD E. SKINNER
     Marriage fund elicits generous response
Political Action. Giving workers time off to cast their ballots
Social Witness. UUs march for reproductive rights
Environment. Recycling program wins kudos
In the Congregations.
     New life for stalled congregations
     Miracle Sunday works its magic
UU Trend. U.S. congregations helping abroad
Living the Faith. Changing society one girl at a time
Religion news. Orthodoxy as a political issue
Milestones. Obituaries for James L. Bosveld, William Anthony Donovan, Calvin Raymond Knapp, Raymond J. Pontier

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