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British Clergy to Support #OccupyLondon with Circle of Protection, Prayer Originally Posted: 11/01/2011 - 9:58am | Type: Blog: On Sunday (10/30), the Anglican Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Richard Chartres, met with Occupy London protesters who have encamped for several weeks now on the ground of St. ...
Why is America Cutting Emergency Food Aid in the Middle of a Famine? Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog: When I first visited Ethiopia at the height of the 1984 famine, I watched as twenty-four people died of starvation in less than fifteen minutes, right in front of my eyes. When ...
A Moral Budget: Politics, Policies, and People Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog: Several weeks ago (right before I left for my sabbatical), I joined with six other pastors from around the country -- in partnership with Sojourners -- to draft an open letter to Congress and Preside ...
What is the Circle of Protection? Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Yesterday, the leaders of more than 50 Christian denominations and organizations drew a line in the sand of the budget debate, and asked our political leaders to do the same. Ye ...
Breaking the Fast, Building the Movement Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: On Easter weekend, I will break my fast. I will have spent almost four weeks drinking only liquids. But, as is often true of fasts, what has been gained is far greater than anything given up. ...
One Year Later, Big Oil Still Isn't Sorry Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: <p style="text-align: left;">One year after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, life has not returned to normal in the Gulf. One year after the Deepwater Horizon Oil ...
Woe to You, Legislators! Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: It is <a href="http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/70282/index1.html" target="_blank">reported</a> that Congressman Paul Ryan makes every member of his staff read philosopher ...
An Open Letter to Speaker Boehner Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Dear Mr. Speaker,</p> Dear Mr. Speaker, This past Sunday, you gave a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters annual conference and said that cutting spending is th ...
What Would You Do With $1 Trillion? Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2011/02/16/what-would-you-do-with-1-trillion/" target="_self"></a>The United States has already spent $3 trillion on the Iraq and <a hr ...
Obama's Budget Battle Hurts the Poor Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: President Obama released his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/15/us/politics/15obama-doc.html" target="_blank">budget proposal</a> Monday, officially staking ...
The Poverty Measure: Why It's Outdated, and Why It's Important Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: <strong> </strong></p> "The poor quality of our official poverty statistics should be a matter of pressing national concern. America deserves bett ...
What President Obama's Budget Means for Poor People Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog: If a budget is a moral document, what should be said about the president's proposed budget for 2010? I focus here on what this budget proposal says about justice for poorer Americans.</p> ...