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Changing Places: How the Obama Election Transformed Historic Locations

by Jim Wallis 11-10-2008
Having talked to many friends since the election, I am conscious of how lots of us are still trying to let what happened sink in.
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Time to Open up a Two-Way Street

by Jim Wallis 11-07-2008
Dear President-elect Obama,
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Obama's Harmony of Intellect and Intuition

by Bono 11-07-2008
Mr. President, Barack, Every room I have ever been in with you was a much easier room for your presence.
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Happy Birthday, Billy Graham

by Gabriel Salguero 11-07-2008
As a 30-something Christian in the U.S., I just want to wish Dr. Billy Graham a happy 90th birthday. I appreciate your humility and unwavering commitment to evangelism. Your marriage to Ruth was an example of grace and commitment. May God grant you strength, peace, and blessings.
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Tend to Your Soul

by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson 11-07-2008
Dear President-elect Obama, You are a leader not just because of what you have done, but because of who you are. Tend to your soul.
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Obama and Mandela

by Seth Naicker 11-07-2008
It has been reported that President-elect Barack Obama's coming into leading the U.S. is in many ways similar -- and equal in magnitude -- to Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa.
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Latino Evangelicals and the Mosaic Shift

by Gabriel Salguero 11-07-2008
I am what some refer to as a brown evangelical -- in short, a Latino evangelical. Usually when the media speaks of evangelicals we are one of the groups that is left out.
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A Prayer for a New President and a New America

by Shane Claiborne 11-07-2008
God of Abraham, Miriam, Hannah, Rizpah, and David... God of Elijah, Amos, Ruth, Isaiah, Deborah... God of Mary, John the Baptizer, Peter, Paul, Philemon and Onesimus...
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We Need Post-Election Reconciliation

by Eugene Cho 11-07-2008
I follow politics, but I don't go crazy. I'm not the kind of person who wears buttons, puts bumper stickers on their cars, and signs on their home lawns.
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Frank Schaeffer on Who Lost this Election and Why

by Jim Wallis 11-07-2008
Not everyone in the country is happy with the election results, but Frank Schaeffer argues that only two groups lost, the New Atheists and the Religious Right.
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