Economic Justice

Money "Creation": Let there be money?

Bob Goudzwaard 5-28-2009
If the financial crisis shows anything, it's that what's happening on Wall Street matters to Main Street, and that we should never take "it's too complicated for you to understand" as an answer
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Blessing of the Bicycles

Nadia Bolz-Weber 5-28-2009

Urban biking is not without peril. Many of my parishioners rely almost exclusively on human-powered transportation and do so while competing for road space with motorized vehicles.

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What if the Bible's Ruth Came to America Today?

Arthur Waskow 5-27-2009
Learning from Shavuot and Pentecost: Can we share our harvest? Can we share our talk and tongues? Can we relearn how to share our work and rest?

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The Poor Can Lead the Charge

Oscar Perry Abello 5-26-2009
If Hernando de Soto was overestimating how much wealth the world's poor have accumulated<
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Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization

Neeraj Mehta 5-26-2009
A standard definition of community development often goes something like this:

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The Consensus Problem

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-22-2009
The folks at NPR's Planet Money podcast have already sort of repented for verbally badgering Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and high government official who happens to be female, in
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Financial Assistance: Is Your Church Ready?

Anonymous Guest Contributor 5-21-2009
In the upcoming weeks and months, desperate people will knock on the doors of almost every church across the nation to ask for emergency financial assistance.
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Proximity: Relocation Doesn't Equal Relationship

Neeraj Mehta 5-20-2009
One of the principles of the Christian community development movement is "relocation." While the principle has depth to it, more times then not it is lived out as people who choose to move their p
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Thoughts on Obama's Notre Dame Address

Jim Wallis 5-18-2009
After weeks of controversy surrounding Notre Dame's invitation to President Obama to receive an honorary doctorate as this year's commencement speaker, we have seen both the American democratic tra
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A Big Problem for Land Justice

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-18-2009
Why should the world turn away from huge, monocropped factory farms? Pick the reason you like best.
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Challenging Obama on Abortion

Glen H. Stassen 5-18-2009

This is a challenge to President Obama and Congress written in light of his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame.

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Love Your Neighbor, Love the Earth

Jim Wallis 5-14-2009
The industrialized world's collective failure to both regulate pollution and curb gross overconsumption has put millions and billions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people at increase
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Sojourners Magazine Awards

Jeannie Choi 5-13-2009
Sojourners magazine received many honors at the joint annual conventions of the Evangelical Press Association (EPA) a
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Are We Offering Grace, or Just Another Program?

Bart Campolo 5-13-2009
I really like Marlena, but that doesn't mean she is a good person. She is smart and easy to talk to, but only if you are talking about her stuff.
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Doing Kingdom Work

Jim Wallis 5-07-2009
There were some remarkable outcomes to last week's Mobilization to End Poverty, with nearly 50 sponsors an
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Are Christians Bad for an Empire's Economy? Should They Be?

Julie Clawson 5-06-2009
Mike recently brought to my attention a letter written by Pliny the Younger to the Emperor Trajan written aroun
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A Moment or a Movement? Sustaining Momentum after the Mobilization to End Poverty

Troy Jackson 5-05-2009

Last week my son and I spent three days in Washington, D.C., as part of the Mobilization to End Poverty. We heard challenging speakers.

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Jack Kemp: Bleeding-Heart Conservative

Jim Wallis 5-05-2009
In 1965, in a last minute move, the American Football League switched its All-Star game from New Orleans to Houston.
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You Go J-O!

Becky Garrison 5-05-2009

When I found out A Night of Hope with Joel & Victoria would be playing in New York City, at the brand new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium, I knew I had to attend this concert. (Sorry, but if you charge admission, I no longer call it a worship service).

Prior to the show, Joel and Victoria Osteen held a 15-minute press conference.

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Video: Eugene Cho Interviews Jim Wallis

Eugene Cho 5-04-2009
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