Education

George Mitrovich 6-16-2009
On the day my father died I was 1,200 miles away.

Oscar Perry Abello 6-10-2009
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. If you teach his wife how to fish, you feed the whole family for a lifetime.
Raising one half-African son and one of mixed European descent posed both ordinary and unique parenting challenges for my husband and me.
Chuck Warnock 6-05-2009
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Harper McConnell 6-01-2009
We were in Masisi, a small town in the endless rolling green mountains of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Brian McLaren 5-29-2009
Many in the Republican Party and some noteworthy Christian leaders have come together to call Judge Sotomayor a racist.
Kent Annan 5-26-2009
"It's a problem of being heard," says Randy Woodley, a Native American theologian. "I feel like 500 years ago, maybe God did bring the white man over.

Dick Cheney is a strange creature. For public consumption he is the cool, principled champion of the American people willing to take hard public stands on their behalf.

Kevin Lum 5-08-2009
Historically, the number of individuals who say they have no religious affiliation in America ranges between 5-10%, but a new poll conducted by Robert Putnam (of http://www.amazon.com/gp/p
Interestingly enough, people sometimes get surprised and/or offended when they hear me say that I do not want to be tolerated or included.

Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!

Chicago's Wilbur Wright College helps workers turn blue collars to green.

Jim Wallis 4-23-2009
Sunday evening the Mobilization to End Poverty will begin.
Ronald J. Sider 4-17-2009

If a budget is a moral document, what should be said about the president's proposed budget for 2010? I focus here on what this budget proposal says about justice for poorer Americans.

 

Edward Gilbreath 4-07-2009
Well, March Madness is now over.
Jimmy Quach 4-07-2009
Today the world is remembering Rwanda and the genocide that started there 15 years ago.
Bob Greenstein 4-07-2009

I've been asked for a few words about how the recession may affect poverty in the United States, and also about policy issues related to poverty that have emerged from the economic recovery legislation and from the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

Ray Offenheiser 4-07-2009
The realities of global poverty are very stark.
Sharon Watkins 4-07-2009

Some might say that this is the worst possible time to have a Mobilization to End Poverty. An elder of a church I served once told me, "You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their checkbook register

Dave Donaldson 4-06-2009
I've been asked to comment on churches that are more conservative, predominantly evangelical, and how they are coalescing around poverty reduction.