The Common Good

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What New Monastics Can Learn from History (Part 1)

by Onleilove Alston 10-16-2008
The settlement house movement is the foundation of public welfare in the United States.
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Audio: Adam Hamilton on How His Megachurch Does Justice

by Jim Wallis 10-16-2008
Pastor Adam Hamilton talks about how his suburban megachurch engages issues of social justice in the education system of their inner-city
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Your Comments (and a Great Sermon) on the Economic Crisis

by Jim Wallis 10-15-2008
In case you missed it ... The conversations that ensue from any post I write vary widely in their civility and productivity. "A Pastoral Strategy for an Economic Crisis" certainly stood out. EricHS put it like this...
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Changeling and the Spirituality of Activism

by Becky Garrison 10-15-2008
Clint Eastwood's latest feature Changeling (opens October 24) depicts the real life story of Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a working class single mom living in Los Angeles circa 1928.
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Audio: Adam Hamilton Talks About Mainline Renewal

by Jim Wallis 10-15-2008
Pastor Adam Hamilton of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, talks
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Verse of the Day: 'Let justice roll down'

by God's Politics Editor 10-15-2008
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. - Amos 5:24
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John McCain's Soul

by Jim Wallis 10-14-2008
"I think if McCain uses these very nasty character references he risks losing his soul.
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American First, Christian Second?

by Lisa Sharon Harper 10-14-2008
Recently, I watched an ongoing New York Times online report by Jennifer Steinhauer and Ben Werschkul called
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