New Orleans

Alison McCrary starts her mornings with prayer and meditation. Sometimes she writes in her journal, other times she draws geometric mandalas. It's a way of silencing her mind. She thinks about what grace sh ...

After months of urging from other Baptists around the country, the Rev. Fred Luter told his African-American congregation that he will seek to become the first black man to lead the predominantly white Southern ...

We've compiled a list of links where you can learn more about the genesis of the #OccupyWallStreet movement. Quick recap Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, ...

Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Maybe, but a Stink Rose by any other name (say... garlic?) might get more play. Shakespeare said a rose by any other nam ...

The effects of climate change -- coastal flooding, stronger storms, spreading vector-borne diseases like malaria, and changes in rainfall patterns -- are already taking their toll on marginalized p ...

This past Tuesday, five months and 5 million barrels of oil after the BP spill disaster began to devastate the eco- and economic systems of the Gulf Coast, the Obama administration launched the nex ...

Kristina Peterson Looking forward after Katrina and the BP spill. For years, those of us living along the Gulf ...

<p style="text-align: left;">I arrived in the faith-based advocacy community in Washington, D.C. fresh out of divinity school. I arrived in the faith-based advocacy com ...

Before the Gulf Coast's <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/oil-spill/">100-percent-human-made oil spill disaster</a>, there was Katrina. That hurricane wasn't the strongest to hit ...

<strong><em>Editor's note: </em></strong><em>Jim Wallis is on a tour of the Gulf Coast with an interfaith group of leaders sponsored by the Sierra Club. ...