From the Editors March 16, 1992 Issue

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Recent months have provided plenty of reason for conversation about human rights, issues of sexual equality, and how men and woman should live and work in relation to one another. Questions of sexual harassment, like any questions of human dignity and freedom, eventually lead—even if sometimes unexpectedly—into spiritual issues and experience.

People yearn for self-respect and mutual respect. We all want to know that we are loved and valued and that we have character and integrity that merit respect irrespective of gender. These point to the spiritual nature of man's identity.

To be a real man or a real woman has everything to do with an individual's true nature as the child—image and likeness—of God. Where people have begun to awake to this spiritual reality, freedom and dignity can't be withheld. They are integral to one's spiritual birthright as God's creation. The equality of men and women can then be seen as fundamentally and undeniably rooted in the spiritual nature of God's creation. This week's Sentinel explores the profound healing and reconciliation that have emerged in people's lives as this spirituality has been discovered. And Ann Kenrick's editorial makes the essential point: "A false sense of selfhood that relies on physical forces and willpower to enforce its views cannot stand before the spiritual strength of moral courage and unselfed love."