Mary Cole-Duvall Thanks for Jim Wallis’ thoughts in “A Pastoral Strategy for Hard Times” (December 2008). Our church is gearing up to assi ...

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

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>In these times of foreclosures, tight budgets, and shrinking funds, community builders feel like ...

This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values. This wasn' ...

Is it possible to create a new economy in the hood that would create jobs, lower energy costs, reduce the carbon footprint of an urban neighborhood, and allow neighbors to get to know one another a ...

In the fall of 2007, not long after I started to work with <a href="http://www.nyfaithjustice.org/">New York Faith &amp; Justice</a>, I learned of an in-depth Bible study on <a hre ...

Today, the House and Senate will vote on the final economic stimulus conference report. Today, the House and Senate will vote on the final economic stimulus conference report. ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> The economy and the nation are at a crossroads. Unemployment, po ...

Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Hey, want to celebrate your love of your honey *and* your love of God's creation? Eatin ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Sadly, the debate around the economic recovery and stimulus pack ...

In this week's town hall meetings, President Obama demonstrated an important aspect of his office: Pastor-in-Chief.</p> In this week's town hall meetings, Presiden ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> I just watched President Obama's Indiana speech and town ha ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> I heard a report on NPR Monday that "The weather in Lon ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Earlier this week the New York Times reported that even as m ...

The day after Obama was sworn in as president, Trinity Institute launched its annual conference titled <a href="http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/education/?institute-default">"Radical Abun ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> In this month's issue of Sojourners magazine, Wal ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Debate is flying about the proposed economic stimulus package, w ...

Walter Brueggemann Biblical faith invites us out of self-destruction toward God's generosity and abundance. ...

Chuck Collins As our economy continues to decline, "common security clubs" are one way people can support each other and take ac ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>In a plenary session titled "The Values behind Market Capitalism" yesterday at the Wor ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> At the opening reception for the World Economic Forum at Davos, ...

Today I arrived in Switzerland for the first day of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) yearly summit in Davos. Today I arrived in Switzerland for the first day of the World Eco ...

<p>It's a better country than I thought it was. I honestly wouldn't have thought this possible. I guess I would have agreed with the older generation of African Americans in my neighborhood: Th ...

<p>I'm 52, and I've had a great first half-century of life (and am looking forward to the next). But this inaugural week I feel an extraordinary happiness. Younger people can understand it to a ...

It was hard to narrow this sermon down to a short clip -- it makes so many good points! It was hard to narrow this sermon down to a short clip -- it makes so many good points! In ...

<p>A friend sent me these pictures, and they capture the reality of mind-boggling inflation in Zimbabwe!</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p> ...

In 2003, <a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.reunification">Call to Renewal</a> was deeply engaged in working to have a refundable child tax credit included in that yea ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Yesterday, Barack Obama told the leaders of the Congress that th ...

Blessings of shalom for 2009! I have just come back from a four week visit to Zimbabwe. Blessings of shalom for 2009! I have just come back from a four week visit to Zimbabwe. As ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Made you look. Anyway, the world economy continues to spin downward despite my previous column on the subject, which was int ...

Robert S. McElvaine The financial crisis. ... that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class ...

It was just a couple of months ago that the country was embroiled in a debate about bailing out Wall Street. It was just a couple of months ago that the country was embroiled in a ...

<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/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>Following on the theme of the last two windows, Dec. 12 on the Advent calendar opened to a picture o ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> After concluding a six days sit-in at the Republic Window Compan ...

<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://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> So here's the cold, hard, unvarnished economic truth about ...

<em>Time</em> magazine just released its <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10">"Top Ten of Everything in 2008."</a> <a href="http://www.time ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Donald Trump is trying his hand at theology. Trump was sued l ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> As the holiday season approaches, America's families will g ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Recently, West Side Chicago folks went down to the state Capitol ...

As the third largest fast-food chain in the world adds its name to a <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=1346">growing list of giants to deliver wage increases and working conditi ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> After being hit hard in the press over taking private jets to ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>In a recent <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/barbara-walters-interview_ ...

<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 ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> I'm tired of all the frantic talk about how much or little ...

Jim Wallis What is the responsibility of Christians? Many Americans are angry about this financial crisis, an ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The following is an excerpt from economic philosopher Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations treatise, one of the driving intellectu ...

Adam Hamilton The good news: God's sustaining power is not tied to the Dow. Paul Krugman, professor of ec ...

Julie Polter Being vessels of that perfect love that casts out fear. With many more Americans struggling to pa ...