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Memorial Day: Giving Our Full Measure of Devotion to Peace

Valerie Elverton Dixon 5-28-2010
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This Memorial Day, let us see and believe the just peace vision and give the full measure of our living devotion to bring into being a world where war is no more.

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Video: Vulture Funds' Absurd Assaults on the Global Poor

Hayley Hathaway 5-19-2010
Do secondary debt markets, hedge funds, and offshore banking make you want to dance? Probably not.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressor: Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban

Cesar Baldelomar 5-17-2010
Arizona's lawmakers just keep finding ways to transform their xenophobia into law. First, they questioned whether Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a legitimate holiday.
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My Emergent Experience: 'Stories Can Close Humans as Much as Open Them'

Ernesto Tinajero 5-06-2010
[Read more of this blog conversation in response to the Sojourners article "http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&iss
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Tribal Tensions in Southern Sudan and Election Approaches

Allison Moody 4-14-2010
Editor's Note: As Sudan prepares for this April's election, the Khartoum regime's leader, President al-Bashir, has threatened to cut off the fingers of foreign election observers who "interfere
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Christian Militias and Litmus Tests

Julie Clawson 4-06-2010

I've been told that I am obviously not a Christian because I watch movies. Because I believe women can be pastors. Because I don't take Mass in a Catholic church. Because I've read Brian McLaren and N.T. Wright. Because I voted for Obama. Because I am not a Calvinist.

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Beyond Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards

LaToya Brown 2-23-2010

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. - Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950)

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Examining El Salvador's Past and Potential

Becky Garrison 2-05-2010
Tomorrow, Jamie Moffett, director of The Ordinary Radicals, will debut the first seven minutes of his documentary Return to El Salvado
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Blurred Lines Between Military and Humanitarian Efforts in Afghanistan Raise More Questions than Answers

Heather Wilson 1-29-2010

Reported in a recent Times article, leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs), speculate that the militarization of aid in Afghanistan blurs lines between military and humanitarian responses, jeopardizing the success of projects and the lives of staff, wanting a return of all aid work to NGOs.

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Clear Benchmarks for Sudan

Melanie Weldon-Soiset 1-22-2010

As many of us know with New Year's resolutions, the ones that will most likely lead to success are the ones that come with a detailed plan: stepping stones, goals, and -- most of all -- concrete deadlines.

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Vulture Funds Feed on the Global Poor

Hayley Hathaway 12-07-2009

Liberia is the most recent country to fall into the talons of a "vulture fund." Last week, British courts ruled that Liberia has to pay $20 million to two vulture funds, Wall Capital Ltd. and Hamsah Investments, for a debt that dates back to 1978.

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Health Care, Race, and the Role of Government

Efrem Smith 10-01-2009
I was recently talking with a European-American friend of mine who is also an evangelical. I am African-American and evangelical.
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Remembering History's Evils

Julie Clawson 9-16-2009
I spent some time this summer visiting my parents in Taos, NM, and while doing all the touristy things there, I couldn't help but encounter stories of the history of the place that truly made me th
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Two Cheers for Danforth on Health Care and Sudan

Elizabeth Palmberg 9-01-2009
Two great ideas from former Sen. John Danforth, an Episcopal priest and Republican from Missouri who served in the U.S. Senate for nearly two decades, are under fire.
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Just Say No to Khartoum Appeasement

Elizabeth Palmberg 8-07-2009
In a http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/0..." href="https://sojo.net/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/20">http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/20
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Obama, Africa, and Truth-Telling

Valerie Elverton Dixon 7-14-2009
Now that the Cold War that was anything but cold in Africa is over; now that the CIA, as far as we know, no longer pays for the overthrow and murder of democratically elected leaders as it did with
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Memorial Day: After the Parades and Picnics

Johann Christoph Arnold 5-22-2009

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

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