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Is the Dream Fulfilled? Achievements, Challenges, and Our Identity in Obama's America

by Romal Tune 11-19-2008
Where have all the prosperity preachers gone? It seems like only yesterday when we were hearing about prosperity preachers and messages about God pouring out financial blessing.
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How the Big Three Automakers Could Test Better Health Care

by Randy Woodley 11-19-2008
I am a follower of Jesus. As such, I understand God to have a special concern for the poor and marginalized of society.
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Happy Birthday Sojourner Truth!

by Kierra Jackson 11-18-2008
On this day in 1797, Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth) was born in Ulster County, New York. Sojourner Truth was a former slave, women's rights activist, abolitionist, and great orator. On November 26, 1883, Sojourner passed away in her home in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Common Ground Abortion Reduction on The Washington Post's Front Page

by Jason Gedeik 11-18-2008
Today's front page feature in The Washington Post is a good profile of the religious lead
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Signs that SOA/WHINSEC is Losing its Grip on Latin America

by Laurel Frodge 11-18-2008
This weekend, an estimated 30,000 people will meet in protest at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, to close the School of the Americas.
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Obama's Promise to Close Guantanamo and the Value of Your Vote

by Jimmy McCarty 11-18-2008
President-elect Barack Obama, in his first interview since being elected, promised to close Guantanamo Bay.
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Father Roy Bourgeois Faces Excommunication for Support of Women's Ordination

by Kaitlin Barker 11-18-2008

"I know you know what you're doing," Janice Sevre-Duszynska told Father Roy Bourgeois when he agreed to co-preside and give the homily at her ordination Mass, "but do you know what you're doing?" About a month ago I shared Janice's story of ordination, spotlighting her struggle for justice in the Catholic church and the long road she'd walked for years leading up to August 9, 2008, the day of her ordination Mass.

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After Court Loss, City of Orlando Seeks to Develop Park Where Groups Feed Homeless

by Alan Clapsaddle 11-17-2008
I have written many times from and about what I call the sacred circle at Lake Eola Park.
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Just Peacemaking and Counterinsurgency

by Valerie Elverton Dixon 11-17-2008
Biblical wisdom teaches: "Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21).
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