Since the historic election of Nov. 4, I have been part of discussions with college students and faith-based institutions that have experienced racial tension and intolerance on their campuses. ...

Biblical wisdom teaches: "Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21).</p> Biblical wisdom teaches: "Do not be overcome by evil but ...

I live in a small but proud neighborhood in Saint Paul, called Rondo. I live in a small but proud neighborhood in Saint Paul, called Rondo. In the early 1960s, it was a vibrant, t ...

Many have commented on how Senator Obama's election has the power and potential to recast and redeem America's image in the world, usher in a new style of politics rooted in bridge-building and pro ...

I follow politics, but I don't go crazy. I'm not the kind of person who wears buttons, puts bumper stickers on their cars, and signs on their home lawns. I follow polit ...

Even as I was reporting <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=2647">Bart Campolo's challenging questions on cross-cultural community</a> last week, I had the beginnings o ...

This is hard to read. Hard to swallow. Hard to understand ... This is hard to read. Hard to swallow. Hard to understand ... especially when it happens at a Christian universit ...

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Alexis Vaughan How God's Word empowers us to fight racism. Seven guards, one nurse, and a 14-year-old bo ...

Jim Wallis It is time to work for common ground between evangelicals and progressives. The public discussion ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank The difficulty - and necessity - of finding a middle ground on stem cells. On the stage o ...

Alexis Vaughan Thousands of protesters marched through Jena, Louisiana, on Sept. Thousands of protesters march ...

Michele M. Hovey In battered Liberia, a woman catches a glimpse of the reconciliation that only the bread and wine might bring. ...

I confess: Over the last 10 days, I did not pay much attention to the Amish school shooting. As the mother of an 8-year old girl, I find school violence stories too painful to follow.</p> ...

Rose Marie Berger After a two-year process, the Greensboro (North Carolina) Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first of its kind in ...

Adam Taylor Ten years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, economic injustice, HIV/AIDS, and poverty stand in the way of real reconc ...

Andrew Hoeksema Why blessed uncertainty is the language of Advent. Speaking of Maybe ...

Edie Bird Sorting out justice in South Africa. In a country where Jesus’ words "the truth will set you fr ...

Rose Marie Berger The war in Kosovo is over. The question now: How to build peace? Their neighbors in Bosnia might just have the beginning ...

Arthur Waskow From almost the beginning to the very end of the Book of Genesis, one theme whirls through many variations: war and peace be ...

Charles A. Kimball How Christians and Muslims navigate the road ahead will have profound consequences for both communities--and for the wo ...

Aaron McCarroll Gallegos Spencer Perkins' long road to reconciliation. On January 27, 1998, Sojourners ...

Spencer Perkins Or does diversity enrich our new 'creaturehood'? Is there a need for racial/ethnic l ...

Jimmy McGee Reconciliation, forgiveness, and the pursuit of justice. Jimmy McGee, who works with inner-city im ...