<p>Fans of gonzo political activism may remember the Yes Men's infamous stunt in which Andy Bichlbaum posed as a Dow Chemical spokesperson named Jude (patron saint of the impossible) Finisterra (ear ...

What could be more joyful than rediscovering our God-given role as caretakers, stewards, and lovers of creation? What could be more joyful than rediscovering our God-given role as ...

I'm a registered Republican. I didn't vote for Obama. I believe in free-market enterprise. I like smaller government. There, I said it. It's out!</p> I&# ...

Just received this:</p> Just received this: I am one of the conservative Christians you refer to in your letter. I did not and still do not support President Obama alt ...

The Declaration of Independence says:</p> The Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are e ...

I went to the grocery store at midnight the other night.</p> <p>Is it just me or are the lights at the grocery story brighter at midnight?</p> I went to the groc ...

Well, glory be Well, glory be My first reaction (to quote My first reaction (to quote George Will) was "Well". An article that compares pornography to McDonal ...

As a nation, we are engaged in making decisions about our health care that will impact our families and communities for generations to come.</p> As a nation, we are engaged ...

Dear Friends,</p> Dear Friends, Although today I would not call myself a political or social conservative, I am grateful for my heritage as an evangelical Christian: My ...

<p>"The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you are eating, because if you knew you might not want to eat it " - Food, Inc. </p> ...

w5fpwem56m w5h2kbxnzs Is the U.S. finally sick and tired of a corporate-dominated trade agenda that is making people around the world sick? w5fpwem56m w5h2kbxnzs Is the U.S. final ...

<p>I attended a majority white high school in the late '70s and since that time my life has been one cross-cultural bowl of spaghetti. It tastes good but is really messy, sometimes sauce all over yo ...

Congress is hard at work on historic energy and climate change legislation. The House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill in the next few weeks, with the Senate to follow in early fall.</p> ...

HR 875 The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 has gotten considerable attention lately and that is a very good thing, people should be concerned about food safety and more specifically how their ...

The group of 20 leading and emerging nations met at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands last week in a meeting which Gordon Brown heralded as the dawning of a new world order. ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>Last Friday, I met a vice president for the insurance giant AIG. While I try to be a gracious p ...

<blockquote><p>It is often pointed out that some of the places most lacking in hope are not the industrial wastelands or the bleak landscapes shorn of beauty, but the places where there is too much ...

Richard E. Stearns How I went from being a corporate CEO to an anti-poverty activist. His name was Richard, th ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Heads, Wall Street executives win; tails, the taxpayers lose. Th ...

When I think of Immokalee, my mind remembers a place where reconciliation has come alive. When I think of Immokalee, my mind remembers a place where reconciliation has come alive. ...

<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887208046?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sojourners-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=1887208046"&g ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Three years ago, Diana Butler Bass asked, "What if the Am ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>This week <a href="http://www.autonews.com/assets/PDF/CA59166128.PDF">GM printed ...

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W5t_VeoxZA"></a>As per usual, on Friday, we had all sorts of Buy Nothing Day festivities (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

I am a follower of Jesus. As such, I understand God to have a special concern for the poor and marginalized of society. I am a follower of Jesus. As such, I understand God to have ...

<p>The day after Thanksgiving, thousands of Americans head for the shopping malls for a ritual known as Black Friday, called such as it's a day when many retailers move from the red (losses) into th ...

The financial crisis is nothing to bat an eyelash at, of course, but as the U.S. The financial crisis is nothing to bat an eyelash at, of course, but as the U.S. is swept up in th ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>The Bush administration believes this should be a "time of Jubilee" for Wall Street sp ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>The Wall Street debacle reminds me of the fall of Babylon ...

<p>It's clear that one cause of the current food crisis is that poorer countries have been pressured into dismantling their food policies, leaving peasant farmers and eaters alike to bear all the ri ...

"Grain Markets Panic Buying, Export Controls, and Food Riots," trumpets the headline of <a title="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4743.html" href="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk ...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced Friday that after a prolonged and often heated campaign, Burger King has agreed to award tomato pickers 1.5 cents per pound of tomatoes picked, the equi ...

<a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/11/blood-bananas-by-ryan-rodrick.html">I posted last November</a> about legal proceedings against Chiquita for protection money paid t ...

<p><P>A few months ago, we asked Sojourners' supporters to send messages to Burger King, asking them to join McDonald's and Taco Bell in <A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolit ...

<p><P>In college, I took a cultural exchange trip (read: vacation) to Rome over spring break. Just around the corner from St. Peter's Square, I bought my father, a minister, a crucifix for his ...

<p>One more reason to take up <a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&amp;issue=soj0605&amp;article=060524">dumpster diving</a>: I've been findin ...

Bart Preecs In the discussions of Shortly after we inaugurate the next president, the 75-year history of over- ...

Danny Duncan Collum Corporate fixes lead to corporate control. In Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic st ...

Danny Duncan Collum Can democracy survive without an adversarial press? Agents of Power ...

Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton Local residents of Kerala, India, are winning a battle a ...

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Corporate dominance of world affairs seems almost god-like. Fortunately, things are way more dynamic and alive than ...

David Batstone "Think about how much of our lives we spend at work," the executive of a New York publishing house said wistfully ...

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman Last year corporations took it on the chin when it came t ...

David Batstone 'Lean and mean' is the shapely figure to which companies are called to conform these days. It's worrisome th ...

Tom Sine David Batstone decries political and theological imagination in "Utopia: No Garden of Eden" (July-August 2002). ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Western Pennsylvania's Citizens Budget Campaign ...

Jim Wallis ‘ Hear this, you that trample on the poor and take from them their jobs and retirement funds. ‘ H ...

David Batstone (Columns, Corporations, Macrowave) Corporations ...

Michael Budde Robert Brimlow His image is used to promote cement companies and bakeries ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler While it’s sometimes hard for corporate giants to do ...