Well, March Madness is now over. Well, March Madness is now over. Every year around this time, there's a disturbing report or two highlighting the low graduation rates of Afr ...

Today the world is remembering Rwanda and the genocide that started there 15 years ago. Today the world is remembering Rwanda and the genocide that started there 15 years ago. As ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>I've been asked for a few words about how the recession may affect poverty in the United St ...

The realities of global poverty are very stark. The realities of global poverty are very stark. About a billion people around the world - one in six - are now considered chronical ...

<p><a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=events.m2ep&amp;item=m2ep-home"></a>Some might say that this is the worst possible time to have a <a href="http://www.so ...

I've been asked to comment on churches that are more conservative, predominantly evangelical, and how they are coalescing around poverty reduction. I've been asked to co ...

I would like to address the foreign affairs portion of the president's budget. I would like to address the foreign affairs portion of the president's budget. World Visi ...

Last month Afghanistan's Parliament passed a new law that severely restricts the rights of women. Last month Afghanistan's Parliament passed a new law that severely rest ...

As I write this post, I'm sitting in a hotel room in Eugene, Oregon waiting for the Society for Pentecostal Studies conference to start. It's nice to have a day to myself. ...

<p>John Hope Franklin lived through most of the twentieth century. He was a gentle man, a scholar, an activist, and a truth-teller. He studied history and he helped to make it.</p> ...

While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.</p> W ...

<blockquote><p>"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Ev ...

Several years ago over 100 of us were arrested for blocking a Capital building entrance and protesting tax cuts for the 5 percent wealthiest people and program cuts from WIC, food stamps, college a ...

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' ...

<p>With the bicentennials of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin the subject of numerous conferences, articles, and television shows this month, we also should remember another important commemoration in ...

As I sat in the federal court room in Tucson witnessing the sentencing of over 60 people who had been caught crossing the border between the U.S. As I sat in the federal court roo ...

purpose do we expect the economy to serve?" Citing Matthew 6:24, Korten reminds us, "No one can ...

"I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord "I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord (audacity of hope, Barack Obama, change, Children, Educatio ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> <p>After three decades of "concentrate the wealth," we could really use some "spread ...

Pastor Adam Hamilton talks about how his <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=2811">suburban megachurch</a> engages issues of social justice in the education system of their ...

Holly Liebowitz Rossi Theological schools and seminaries are changing the ways they prepare their students for our increasingly multirelig ...

I grew up in a working-class, African-American neighborhood in Detroit. I was fortunate to have two college-educated parents who knew how to set my brother and me up for success in school. ...

Susan Taylor Teaching our kids (and ourselves) to be smart -- and generous -- about money. Ours is not the ty ...

Angela Glover Blackwell Taking a regional approach, "equitable development" aims to lift people out of poverty - and into opport ...

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

Hanna Kang Azusa Pacific students follow Jesus out of the comfort zone. In the foothills of the San Gabriel Mo ...

Lee A. Rials In "School of Shame" (February 2007), the author addresses the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperatio ...

David Batstone This generation does not fear the sacred nor bow to the secular. Nearly every semester I teach ...

David Black What do the words and witness of Jesus demand of a college that calls itself Christian? Try as I m ...

Joseph R., SJ Hacala A Catholic university strives to make hunger for justice part of the curriculum. As the o ...

Amy McDougall Jake Nyberg Gay rights activists seek - and find - dialogue on (some) Ch ...

Robert Roth Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September. This would be a good month to rest the ...

Anonymous 'Jesus himself was a child immigrant.' As proud as I am about my ethnicity—I was born in M ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank Complete with play money, appliance cards, and transportation passes, the Community Action Poverty Simulation is much ...

Rose Marie Berger World Peace. A new Internet service provider, Peacenik.co.uk, will raise money for peacemakers working in conflict zone ...

Molly Marsh An interview with food activists Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. Every movement needs its revolutiona ...

Steve Thorngate At St. Olaf, students learn to reap what they sow. Day Burtness and Dan Borek hoped to start a ...

Robert Roth Love binds and builds, heals and hallows, redeems and restores. Love binds and builds, heals and h ...

Chuck Collins Felice Yeskel The Walton empire gets political. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Fortunately, social structures are well established. If you're cool. After ...

David Batstone Everything I need to know I learned in my parent-teacher conferences. I have fo ...

Melissa Snarr Beyond community service, colleges educate for social change. To borrow a term from social movem ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Exploring social change on the stage, street, and classroom. The University of San Franci ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Local culture meets global issues. During its 148-year history, Berea College—which from ...

Kate Bowman Preparing Christian agents of urban change. How does a suburban Christian college educate studen ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank Integrating justice in all fields of study. With the wide range of disciplines at liber ...

Christa Mazzone Building international and cross-cultural knowledge. Chicago's North Park University, a ...

Jim Rice A victory for vouchers - but who wins? If all you knew about modern American politics you learned f ...

David Shapiro What does standardized testing have to do with education? Virtually every teacher has told the s ...

Gregory Fritzberg 'Easy' solutions like standardized testing won't solve enduring problems like economic inequality. ...