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Silent Prayers and a More Than Perfect Game

by Valerie Elverton Dixon 06-04-2010
There are times when there are no words. There are times when it seems that there is no hope for humankind, that our blindness to the things that make for peace is willful.
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Diversity is the New Normal

by Eugene Cho 06-04-2010
One of my readers sent me a video a couple months ago because, well, I somehow mysteriously got on this video.
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Why My Faith Calls Me to March

by Becky Garrison 06-04-2010
In my research into how to build grassroots ministries that are sustainable and Christ-centered for my books,
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Violence from the Past

by Julie Clawson 06-04-2010
The day after we here in the U.S. paused to remember the men and women who had died fighting for our country, the fight continued from beyond the grave.
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Untold Story: BP-sized Oil Spills Happen All the Time in Nigeria

by Sheldon C. Good 06-04-2010
The BP Oil Spill is the worst oil spill in U.S. history, much worse than Exxon Valdez.
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A Time for Moral Reckoning

by Jim Wallis 06-03-2010
I am watching unbelievable pictures tonight of endless swaths of brown oil mixed with the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, of dying wetlands and marshes, of miles of contaminated coastlines, of d
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An Early BP Christmas Present? Please, God, No

by Justin Fung 06-03-2010
"Spill" sounds so innocuous, doesn't it?
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Labor is Part of the Immigration Equation

by Marque Jensen 06-03-2010
If migration policy was "freed" or emancipated, people could respond to real work opportunities, economies would be able to grow globally, the federal and state focus could be put on fighting crime and
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Another Cost of the Flotilla Raid

by Jim Rice 06-02-2010
Along with shooting nine peace activists during their attack on the peace flotilla this week, Israeli commandos may have shot themselves in the foot
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Nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement

by Nathan Schneider 06-02-2010
Three days have passed since the Israeli navy attacked an international Gaza Freedom Movement "Freedom Flotilla," intent
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