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Letters from Readers

From time to time we will print letters from readers, including heart-felt statements by those opposed to our stands. We see ourselves the way the British shadow cabinet styles itself—as “the loyal opposition”—in our case the opposition being not to government but to specific cruel blindnesses in American culture.

Lucy Vilankulu, Minnesota Literature:

Somewhere between trumpet blast from above and Paine’s Common Sense one finds A Shout to American Clergy.

Wendell Berry, essayist, poet and novelist:

I approve. Those people are ruining us.

Anne McInerney, President, Minnesota School Social Workers’ Association:

What a great example of a social worker using literature as change agent! What a great use of a unique social work skill.

The Reverend Celeste Hemingson:

When discussing liberation theology in upper-class towns in (the United States as opposed to discussing it in South America, where it originated) you have to get people to acknowledge unearned and unrecognized privilege in their lives.

Your book does a better job of that than anything I read in divinity school.

Jan Koenen, author of "Scraping by in Paradise:"

I love the book... especially since I am exactly the kind of English major type that mistrusts psychological insights. The writing is beautiful throughout. Incredibly beautiful.

Mary Pipher said of Three Readings for Republicans and Democrats:

“This small but profound work is a call to action. The action is empathic listening, discussing differences, and developing, then defending, one’s own moral clarity. Its message resonates with my message: ‘Together we can change the world.’”

Mary Pipher is the author of Letters to a Young Therapist, 2003; The Shelter of Each Other, 1997; Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, 1995.

Bill Moyers

Thank you for the book, for the spirit behind it, for your affirmation of my work, and for your witness in these difficult times.

“Nor are rich children spared. Idealism in young privileged teens is typically seen as charming by their educated parents; those same parents, however, want their kids cured of idealism by the time they are 19 or 20—so they don’t become gadflies to the status quo. …So here’s how hopelessness is taught to rich kids…”

—Cynthia Loveland, in “Afterword for Non-Social Workers and Social Workers, Too”