Economic Justice

Thinking Thankfully About Money

Rachel Anderson 11-25-2008

When you are giving thanks this week, why not give thanks for money? Sound crass? It shouldn't be, because that's what could empower a household economy based on gratitude rather than one driven by greed or guilt.

Share Your Dreams: Achievements, Challenges, and Our Identity in Obama's America, Part 4

Rev. Romal J. Tune 11-24-2008

[continued from part 3] [read all four parts]

Give Thanks in All Circumstances

Valerie Elverton Dixon 11-24-2008

I Am a Predatory Borrower

Timothy McMahan King 11-21-2008

A Second Bretton Woods?

Neil Watkins 11-21-2008

Twenty heads of state descended upon Washington

this past weekend to discuss the global financial crisis and how to solve it. A communiqué and action plan came out of the meeting, but without President-elect Obama there, few had expected much to come in terms of concrete results

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Video: How to Make Christmas Ornaments from Credit Cards

Jeannie Choi 11-21-2008

The word "plastic" means "anything which can be easily shaped or sculpted" (actually, an even older meaning is "sculptor")

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Black Friday and Consumerism, White Privilege and Buy Nothing Day

Eugene Cho 11-20-2008

All of you who have a pulse know that the Friday after Thanksgiving is the single most crazy shopping day in the United States.

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Audio: Biblical Redistribution of Wealth -- What You Think You Own is Not Yours

Efrem Smith 11-20-2008

In this clip, taken from a Nov. 2 sermon, Pastor Efrem talks about the implications of the commandment not to covet, and a biblical approach to wealth and ownership.

Do Detroit and the Big Three Automakers Have a Prayer?

Jim Wallis 11-19-2008

Addicted to the Streets

Bart Campolo 11-19-2008

Twelve years ago our dear friend Julia took a badly neglected baby boy away from his crackhead mother and made him her own.

How the Big Three Automakers Could Test Better Health Care

Randy Woodley 11-19-2008

I am a follower of Jesus. As such, I understand God to have a special concern for the poor and marginalized of society.

After Court Loss, City of Orlando Seeks to Develop Park Where Groups Feed Homeless

Alan Clapsaddle 11-17-2008

I have written many times from and about what I call the sacred circle at Lake Eola Park.

Celebrate 'Buy Nothing Day' with 'Make Something Day'

Jason Evans 11-17-2008

The day after Thanksgiving, thousands of Americans head for the shopping malls for a ritual known as Black Friday, called such as it's a day when many retailers move from the red (losses) into the black (gains).

Black Friday is "celebrated" nationwide by working off Thanksgiving's meal by shopping. Over a decade ago another celebration was started on the same day: Buy Nothing Day.

Every room I have ever been in with you was a much easier room for your presence.

National Service, Global Concern

11-06-2008

President Obama,

Leaders Are Only as Strong as the Citizens Who Raise Their Voices

Marian Wright Edelman 11-06-2008

On the day he died, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called his mother to give her his next Sunday's sermon title.