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My Interview with Jon Stewart

by Jim Wallis 06-22-2009
"A joyful heart is good medicine," the scriptures say in Proverbs 17:22. Laughter truly is good for the soul, and quite possibly a democracy. I have often said that the Hebrew prophets used humor and satire as they spoke truth to power.
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Rethink Afghanistan

by Anna Almendrala 06-18-2009
An interview with a man and his children in an Internally Displaced Person (refugee) camp quickly devolves into a father desperately trying to sell his smallest child to the cameraman.
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The Mosque in Morgantown: Finding Our Religion within American Pluralism

by Rose Marie Berger 06-12-2009
In March, I had lunch with Asra Nomani at Sticky Fingers, the vegan bakery across from the Sojourners office.
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Listen to it Loud

by Mark Brinkmoeller 06-12-2009
"Listen to it loud!" That was the advice that came with a disc of the new film, I Bring What I Love, about Youssou N'Dour, a Senegalese singer who has worked for social justice in Africa.
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Free Music Monday: The Welcome Wagon

by Jeannie Choi 06-08-2009
About a month ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Rev.
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In the Footsteps of Jesus?

by Cesar Baldelomar 05-28-2009
Angels and Demons, the movie inspired by Dan Brown's novel by the same title, has raked in nearly $190 million worldwide (with approximately $90 million in the U.S.) in only its second wee
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Eschatology or Bigotry?

by Gareth Higgins 05-28-2009
A couple of weeks ago on Glenn Beck's talk radio show, a woman called in to suggest that because President Obama appears to be raising the tax rate to around the same as what it was under President
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The Hole in Our Gospel: Interview with World Vision's Richard Stearns

by Robert Gelinas 04-24-2009
As the pastor of a church with a deep desire to love others as Christ would, I've recently been telling folks, "If you only read one book this year, then you must read
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Poem: Through the Eyes of the Beholder

by Angela Whitenhill 04-24-2009

This piece was written as a personal testimony as to how we can use scripture to liberate us from mental and physical bondage. Through the Eyes of the Beholder is dedicated to all of us who struggle with insecurities; that we may know how to alter our perceptions to see ourselves and others through God's eyes.

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Travels with Bruce Cockburn: Into the Soul of this World of Wonders

by Cathleen Falsani 04-24-2009
There's roads and there's roads And they call, can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit . . . - Bruce Cockburn's "Child of the Wind" Mali. Mozambique. Central America. The Himalayas. Kosovo.
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