<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Yesterday I heard Cokie Roberts on ABC's This Week say: ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>I have had the opportunity to consider and write about the economic disparities and realities in ...

During a recent trip to Seattle, I took a tour of <a href="http://www.theochocolate.com/">Theo Chocolate</a>, the first and only organic and fair trade chocolate factory in the United Sta ...

<p align="left"><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Everyone has heard the famous phrase, att ...

The presidential tickets in this election on both sides of the aisle have lots of "personality;" some of the candidates have even been referred to as "rock stars." John McCain's campa ...

Phyllis Tickle Every 500 years or so, the church—and the world—experience huge social, political, economic, and cultural shifts. What does ...

Phyllis Tickle Phyllis Tickle talks with Becky Garrison, senior contributing writer for The Wittenburg Door and author of Rising from the ...

Andrew Berg, an International Monetary Fund African department policy adviser, is a nice man. Andrew Berg, an International Monetary Fund African department policy adviser, is a n ...

<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 ...

I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I traveled by bus, and my experience is typical of what has become the norm for road travel between Sou ...

I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I traveled by bus, and my experience is typical of what has become the norm for road travel between Sou ...

I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I was in Zimbabwe from June 21 to 28. I traveled by bus, and my experience is typical of what has become the norm for road travel between Sou ...

"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 ...

<p><a title="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/" href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/"></a>American Public Media recently l ...

<p>Mr. Philip A. Belisle United States Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Kansas City, MO 64999-0025</p> <p>Dear Sir:</p> <p>On May 9, 2008, I received an "e ...

<P>One of Jesus' most in-your-face stories, and a personal favorite of mine, is the Parable of the Dishonest Manager in <A title=http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=76525043 href="http://bible.oremu ...

G. Jeffrey MacDonald Socially responsible investing has morphed into a $2 trillion mainstream industry. In the ...

Marva J. Dawn A biblical framework for understanding money's grip on us -- and how to break free. Why doe ...

Matthew Colwell How to live in the light of God's abundance and provision. Theologian Ched Myers characte ...

<P>Recently, both President Bush and an oil company spokesperson, speaking to the rising gas prices, pushed for building more refineries and upping the production of oil here in the States. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Worried about your financial future? Have a Life Saver. While Congress debates President Bush’s ...

<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 ...

Joanna B. Campbell 'Citizen architects' meet real-world challenges. El Centro Episcopal is located ...

Bob Blackburn With deference to Alexia Salvatierra (“Sacred Refuge,” September-October 2007), I do not believe that our current laws regar ...

Rose Marie Berger Between 1950 and 1970, the U.S. Between 1950 and 1970, the U.S. spent 3 percent of its gross ...

<P>Economists are telling us that people are not spending enough money this Holiday time and thus our economy will suffer. Economists are telling us that people are not ...

<P>Economists are telling us that people are not spending enough money this Holiday time and thus our economy will suffer. Economists are telling us that people are not ...

<P>Economists are telling us that people are not spending enough money this Holiday time and thus our economy will suffer. Economists are telling us that people are not ...

Bill Williams Three quarters of Americans say they do not know their neighbors. Bill McKibben has long been so ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Promoting "green industry" can foster an ec ...

Christina Cobourn Herman Corruption is a problem in Kenya and many countries. Where corruption is intractable, trust funds can be used to ...

Christina Cobourn Herman Asserting that "it takes two to tango," the Jubilee movement argues that it is high time lenders assume ...

Molly Marsh Encountering the Holy The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World, edited by Bob Abernethy, host ...

Susan Watkins One thing missing from "A Nuclear Surge" (by Frida Berrigan, April 2007) is the money source. ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Christian Aid's 2007 report "A Rich Seam: W ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Three factors that are invisible to market fundamentalists. Three factors that are invisi ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Trade technocrats try to hide behind a veil of boring, but you can get beyond the jargon. ...

Dan Nejfelt Balancing the scales with justly traded chocolate. On a snowy night in February, Comfort Kumeah, a ...

<p>Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. ...

<p>Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. ...

<p>Last week I watched The Passion of the Christ - it was my third time watching the film. Each time I watch the film a different facet of the suffering of Christ is revealed to me. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. We cannot rest on our laurel, once we find out what it is. During a recent congressional hearing ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez BeadforLife has helped roll hundreds of Ugandan famil ...

Tamara Draut Collaboration between low- and middle-income people is one of the keys to rebuilding the broken American Dream. ...

Julie Polter How to defend the family more. In the waning days of the 2006 election campaign, it appeared that ...

Meg E. Cox John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empo ...

Molly Marsh Communities at Risk “AIDS is born in the house of poverty,” an Indian health worker says on Making Ends Meet: AIDS and Poverty , a new resource from the Menno ...

Robert H. Baker “Taking Back our Kids,” by Danny and Polly Duncan Collum (January 2006), has many important things to say about raising children in today’s American culture, but I ...

David Batstone Is 'cost-effective' the right criterion for judging AIDS drugs? Karl Barth’s prescrip ...

Katharine M. Preston How community-based investing transforms individuals - and religious institutions. The Fi ...