<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>As I opened window 10, I had to squint to see a small angelic figure holding a book-the traditional ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> As mentioned in an earlier post , this year's Advent calenda ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>I'm on the road this morning. So I called my husband and asked him to open the fifth window on ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>The fourth window of my Advent calendar opened to reveal a deer in the snow, a nostalgic vision of w ...

First a confession First a confession Well said. Thank you. Well said. Thank you. Wow. You make too much Wow. You make too much sense. This is a mindset th ...

<p>As we reflect on the history, meaning, and mythologies surrounding the season of Thanksgiving, indigenous theologians Richard Twiss, Raymond Aldred, and Terry LeBlanc offer their perspectives on the i ...

In India, the world's largest democracy, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sunday_Specials/The_Audacity_of_Hope/articleshow/3690305.cms">millions applauded the recent U.S. ...

In a world where following Christ is decreed to be a subversive and illegal activity, you have been accused of being a believer, arrested, and dragged before a court.</p> In ...

Bill Maher is that rare thing: a media figure unafraid to say what he really thinks. Bill Maher is that rare thing: a media figure unafraid to say what he really thinks. When he ...

<p><a href="http://flobots.com/">Flobots</a> are a Denver-based, hip-hop/rock alternative group, whose powerful activist lyrics explore issues from globalization and poverty to war ...

Rose Marie Berger Alexis Vaughan United Methodists in the U.S. ...

Brian D. McLaren Our 'framing' stories aren't serving us well. But there is an alternative: the good news of Jesus. ...

Janna Hunter-Bowman Just before 3 a.m. on June 14, intruders forcibly entered Justapaz, the justice and peace office of the Colombian Menn ...

Nancy Hastings Sehested In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption? If I threw open my arm ...

Corbey Dukes Like many in the Christian community, I became greatly disillusioned with the Religious Right. Li ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez American theists perceive God in four general ways, a ...

Laurel Rae Mathewson Since the box-office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, there's been a lot of hoopla about ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Struggling to explain God's ways to your Sunday ...

Elaine Storkey What will we see if we view the global economy through the lens of faith? I've always foun ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. Eastertide concludes in May wit ...

Alan Betts The faith community will need to step up its role as protectors of creation. By profession I am a c ...

E.J. Dionne Jr. America's religious communities and the battle over government. The core divisions among ...

Amy Ard Some activists possess a certain quality that's hard to put your finger on; you just know it when you see it. They are hopeful when the situation seems hopeless, they ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Let all creation praise! Worried that your pooch won& ...

Clifford Rivera "The wind blows wherever it pleases." Word? The scene is played out. We need some Eden! Were Abba the DJ, ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Cycle C. Passion Week is a popular time f ...

Lyndsay Moseley Something is bound to go terribly wrong when so many Christians see the planet as an unimportant holding place where we aw ...

Edward A. Daugherty Common Life, Robert Cording's fifth poetry collection, is informed by religious faith and enacts it. ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez There's no better way to prevent boredom than pl ...

Peter Murphy I just finished Barack Obama’s article in the November 2006 issue of Sojourners (“One Nation ... Under God?”), and I am deepl ...

Stephen Petrie In “A Red Letter Campus” (by David Black, September-October 2006), Black asks, “What does it mean for a college to be calle ...

I confess: Over the last 10 days, I did not pay much attention to the Amish school shooting. As the mother of an 8-year old girl, I find school violence stories too painful to follow.</p> ...

Rose Marie Berger The 'gospel' of Judas and The Da Vinci Code make Christianity unrecognizable. It’s ...

Laurence Keith Thanks for “Found in Translation” (by Brian McLaren, March 2006). It was very thought-provoking, and the metaphors are crea ...

Dale W. Brown Ron Hansen talks about stories, faith, and being a 'Christian writer.' P ...

Robert Roth Whenever you helped the needy - or ignored the poor - Jesus said, "you did it to me." ...

Douglass Bakke I applaud Larry Rasmussen' I applaud Larry Rasmussen’s efforts to find the middle ground between the positions of just war theory an ...

Jim Wallis Why can't personal ethics and social justice - together - become a real political choice? ...

Elizabeth Palmberg One of the big lies of the modern age is that economics is uninteresting. One of the big lies of the modern age is that economics is ...

Gary Downing SAY IT AIN'T SO! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Tell me you didn't quote "Christianity' ...

Charles A. Kimball How Christians and Muslims navigate the road ahead will have profound consequences for both communities--and for the wo ...