on earth as it is in heaven
N. T. Wright is right! The separation of religion from “real life,” the separation of faith from politics, from the push and pull of the everyday decisions that impact the lives of persons and...
View Articlei applaud jimmy carter
I applaud Jimmy Carter for his courage, for engaging the leadership of Hamas in dialogue, for searching out any avenues for moving the peace process forward. He has been criticized for meeting at all...
View Articlenrdc update: 37 wolves killed
An update from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on what has happened since protections for wolves were lifted in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana … The government-sanctioned massacre of wolves...
View Articlesharing the wealth?
A good editorial in the latest issue of The Christian Century: American Pie In the course of discussing tax policy with an unlicensed Ohio plumber, Barack Obama suggested that “spreading the wealth...
View Articlevoting for obama is a mortal sin?
Statement from The Rev. Susie B. Smith On The Controversy Surrounding St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville
View Articleobama’s choice of rick warren
But Obama, I think, genuinely wants to do something new, something different, not to represent this constituency or that advocacy group, but to work hard at getting people talking with each other, not...
View Articleillegal to love your neighbor in arizona?
Here is an excerpt from a recent report by Jim Wallis from Phoenix, Arizona. May the followers of Jesus in our own day echo the words of Peter and John and the other apostles: “We must obey God, not...
View Articlebecoming our own worst enemy
I was directed by a college classmate to this Ted Koppel editorial. The post title is mine, my summary of Koppel’s argument. We are threatened. We live in a world that is not safe. We do have enemies....
View Articleone more state gives up the death penalty
Yesterday, Connecticut became the seventeenth state to vote to outlaw the death penalty. May the thirty-three remaining states with death penalty provisions still enacted in state law be soon to...
View Articlean extremely regressive tax
The latest issue of Sojourners Magazine includes an opinion piece by Phil Blackwell, entitled Not Worth the Gamble, a response to the recent ruling by the US Justice Department to permit states to sell...
View Articleblaming the victim?
I am reprinting in its entirety a response to a Facebook message posted a week ago by Franklin Graham. The open letter has thirty-two original signatories, including members of the Sojourners...
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