Results for Racial and Social Justice
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On Scripture: God's Return Policy
Originally Posted: 10/24/2012 - 12:57pm | Type: Blog -
Debates on immigration in the United States continue to move in the default direction of North/South. As such, the prominent debating points often direct public attention to the U.S./Mexico border fence and t ...
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Obama's Biggest Religious Coalition? The Nones
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 5:57pm | Type: Blog -
The largest slice of President Barack Obama’s religious coalition -- at 23 percent -- is not very religious. They’re the “nones,” also known as unaffiliated voters, according to a new American Values Survey ...
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Jews Rally Around Woman Arrested for Praying at Western Wall
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 5:50pm | Type: Blog -
JERUSALEM -- Jews from Manhattan to Mozambique held prayer vigils on Monday to protest the arrest and incarceration of an Israeli feminist as she was leading 250 American Jewish women in prayer at the Western ...
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Ethiopia: How Foreign Aid Has Helped a Generation
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 6:41pm | Type: Blog -
and 44 percent of all children in Ethiopia are stunted Only one in every four children 12-23 months ...
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What Americans Think About U.S. Foreign Aid Might Surprise You
Originally Posted: 10/24/2012 - 8:23am | Type: Blog -
It might come as a surprise to learn that less than one percent of the U.S. budget is spent on foreign assistance. It might even be shocking to discover that, despite this relatively small amount, these funds ...
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Survey: Gap Between 'Social Justice' and 'Right to Life' Catholics
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 1:09pm | Type: Blog -
More American Catholics believe their religious leaders should be focused on issues related to poverty and social justice during this election season, rather than spending time and energy on other issues such ...
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NumbersUSA Stirs Up Division With New Immigrant Attack Ad
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 3:59pm | Type: Blog -
We all know the conversation on immigration in the United States can oftentimes become contentious, with inaccurate portrayals of immigrants inhibiting progress. The most recent attempt to fuel the debate with ...
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Women, Foreign Policy, and the Presidential Debate
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 2:37pm | Type: Blog -
Thanks to Melanne Verveer’s article in Foreign Policy magazine, I’m going to be listening for what the presidential candidates say tonight about women in this foreign policy focused debate. ...
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Evangelicals Mobilizing for Romney Campaign
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 3:52pm | Type: Blog -
million evangelicals in battleground states, and each household will be contacted seven to 12 times before ...
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Values of a Public Faith (Part 3)
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 11:10am | Type: Blog -
to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets” (Matt. 7:12). Debate ... (Matt. 5:44). “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21). Debate : ... and the prophets” (Matt. 7:12). Debate : The debate should not be whether religious voices should be excluded. ...
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Vote
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 9:16am | Type: Blog -
While several years pass between presidential elections, we vote for the collective benefit of our global common good on numerous occasions with each passing day. In a few week ...
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Meet the Nones: Building Bridges Between Nones and Nuns
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 6:07pm | Type: Blog -
The label “none” lumps together atheists, agnostics, and, well, me. I am not an atheist. I might be kind of agnostic, but there really is just something about that Jesus guy. ...
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Values of a Public Faith (Part 2)
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 1:42pm | Type: Blog -
to Ask : Will the candidate push to abolish capital punishment, and if so, how hard? 12. Criminal ...
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Watch the Vote: Is the Voting Rights Act Still Needed?
Originally Posted: 10/25/2012 - 7:06pm | Type: Blog -
When the Supreme Court announced recently that one of the cases it would take up in this session was a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the hairs rose on the back of my neck. ...
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I Support Mix It Up At Lunch Day BECAUSE I am a Christian
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 8:43am | Type: Blog -
Luke's Gospel is a Gospel that proclaims love for the marginalized. And out of the four, Luke has the most meals. One of my current writing projects has me spending a lot of ...
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Meet the Nones: Politically Active
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 4:01pm | Type: Blog -
PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly has launched a new mini-series on the rise of the unaffiliated. Editor's Note: Sojourners has launched this new blog series to hel ...
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Values of a Public Faith (Part 1)
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 3:33pm | Type: Blog -
In this year of presidential elections, I have decided to summarize key values that guide me as I decide for whom to cast my vote. There are three basic elements of choosing a candidate for public office respo ...
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Just Peace Theory and Foreign Policy
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 2:19pm | Type: Blog -
Just peace theory begins with the idea that peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building is a day-by-blessed-day proposition. Unlike just war theory, it does not begin when violent conflict is imminent. ...
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Please Do Not Dress Up for Halloween in Blackface, Brownface, or Yellowface; Don’t Be Stupid
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 1:15pm | Type: Blog -
Please don’t dress up in a blackface, yellowface, brownface, or any other costumers that stereotype, denigrate, or mock another culture. Don’t caricature another real culture. Why? Because we’re a culture and ...
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Ohio 'Voter Fraud' Billboards a 'Perversion of Truth'
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 1:17pm | Type: Blog -
American community in Cleveland and noticed a billboard that read: "Voter Fraud is a Felony: 3 1/2 ... a billboard that read: "Voter Fraud is a Felony: 3 1/2 years & $10,000 fine." ... the sign through peripheral vision. Felony ... Vote ... Fraud ... 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. ...
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Young Evangelicals and the 'Nones'
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 1:02pm | Type: Blog -
Young evangelicals are changing, and so is what it means to be an evangelical, or Christian at all, in our country today. And it is exactly the kind of Christianity that they are living out which might, just m ...
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Immigration Reform: The Only Way to Solve America’s Agricultural Woes
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 11:14am | Type: Blog -
As a Georgia resident I can tell you first hand the negative effects hardlined immigration policies have on rural communities whose economies depend on agriculture. America is in ...
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Thou Shalt Follow These 10 Commandments for the Presidential Election
Originally Posted: 10/17/2012 - 11:44pm | Type: Blog -
Since there’s sure to be drama this week and next following the debates — and each day leading up to Election Day on Nov. 6, and likely some weeks afterward — I thought I’d share with you my 10 Commandments of ...
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Anti-abortion Priest Frank Pavone is Back With Eyes on Obama, Bishops
Originally Posted: 10/17/2012 - 1:56pm | Type: Blog -
of $12 million two years ago, and that the conflict with Zurek led to a 10 percent drop-off ...
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After Romney Meeting, Billy Graham Website Scrubs Mormon ‘Cult’ Reference
Originally Posted: 10/17/2012 - 8:29am | Type: Blog -
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association removed language labeling Mormonism a “cult” from its website after the famed preacher met with Republican nominee Mitt Romney last week and pledged to help his presid ...
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Young Evangelicals, Election 2012, and Common Ground
Originally Posted: 10/16/2012 - 3:48pm | Type: Blog -
What culture war? At a survey release of young evangelicals and proceeding panel discussion, common ground was the pervading theme. What culture war? At a survey release of young ...
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Evangelical Coalition Rallies Behind Family Planning
Originally Posted: 10/16/2012 - 10:35am | Type: Blog -
A coalition of evangelicals is calling on fellow Christians to support access to family planning across the world, saying it does not conflict with evangelical opposition to abortion. ...
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Bhutan Bans Religious Activities Ahead of Elections
Originally Posted: 10/16/2012 - 10:35am | Type: Blog -
Political leaders in the tiny Buddhist nation of Bhutan have announced a nearly six-month ban on all public religious activities ahead of the upcoming elections, citing the Himalayan nation's constitution ...
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Five Misconceptions About Men
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 3:56pm | Type: Blog -
Rather than dissecting the points of friction I found with author David Murrow (which were many), I thought I’d try to outline a few major distinctions between traditional “modern” male identity and what some ...
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Serving Joyfully
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
How could he do something as mundane as washing dishes and do it with joy? Washing dishes. This is how I remember Momadu. Washing dishes is a chore, you know. In the pre-dishwa ...
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How the VP Debate Emphasized ‘Single-Issue’ Catholicism
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 1:10pm | Type: Blog -
Catholicism’s social justice teachings have often been called the church’s “best-kept secret,” and after the Oct. 11 vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan – the first such showdown between t ...
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Death Penalty for Jesus
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 12:20pm | Type: Blog -
of Proposition 34 and asked how they would vote, the result was a statistical tie, with 12 percent of the voters ...
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Where Does Faith Fit in Today’s Politics?
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 11:27am | Type: Blog -
Depending on your perspective, it could be argued that the landscape of presidential candidates either reflects such religious diversity, or that it’s still more of the same old majority rule at play, with a f ...
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The Nones: Skeptics Are the New Religious
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 10:59am | Type: Blog -
In fact, the latest data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life say that a record-high one in five Americans -- and one in three adults under age 30 -- are religiously unaffiliated. Why? ...
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Standing Up for the Vulnerable: A Community Response to 'The Line'
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 10:53am | Type: Blog -
On a conference call with people from across the nation who held screenings of The Line, you could hear frustrations mounting from people struggling with the challenge of reducing poverty in America. ...
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Just the Facts Ma’am: Economic Analysis from the Congressional Research Service
Originally Posted: 10/15/2012 - 10:49am | Type: Blog -
When we listen to political debates about which public policies will strengthen the economy, it is easy to get lost in a statistical maze. When we listen to political debates abou ...
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Educating Girls Reduces Poverty.
Originally Posted: 10/12/2012 - 7:04pm | Type: Blog -
One of the surest ways to reduce poverty is to provide an education for girls. It’s been said before, but it’s worth saying again. One of the surest ways to reduce poverty is to p ...
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Majority of Protestant Pastors Back Romney, But Many Still Undecided
Originally Posted: 10/12/2012 - 10:08am | Type: Blog -
A majority of Protestant pastors plan to vote for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new survey, but nearly a quarter are still undecided less than a month from Election Day. ...
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Three Ds for Israel & Palestine
Originally Posted: 10/12/2012 - 9:57am | Type: Blog -
Several of my rabbi friends have explained to me that there are three Ds that we should keep in mind when we criticize the policies of the State of Israel as we work for justice and peace for Israelis and Pale ...
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Visiting Jesus in Jail
Originally Posted: 10/11/2012 - 5:27pm | Type: Blog -
It’s not just innocent prisoners we are to see; it’s prisoners. They are all Jesus. As a public defender in one of the biggest, busiest court systems in the country — Cook County, ...
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On Muppets and Candidates
Originally Posted: 10/11/2012 - 11:07am | Type: Blog -
Tripp Hudgins offers his First Thoughts about the presidential and vice presidential debates. Editor's Note: Theologian extraordinnaire Tripp Hudgins put together ...
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We’ve Got Issues
Originally Posted: 10/11/2012 - 11:41am | Type: Blog -
Think and pray about whom, you would entrust with the responsibility to lead your community, state, and nation. If you care about having a substantive conversation about is ...
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Meeting the Demands of a New Generation of Christian Leaders
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 8:30pm | Type: Blog -
Part of the theology was there already for the CCDA. A deep faith in the lordship of Jesus Christ coupled with a desire to love one's neighbor — especially the vulnerable — has long drawn people to work w ...
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Biden-Ryan Debate: Battle of the Catholics
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 8:05pm | Type: Blog -
When Joe Biden and Paul Ryan face off in the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, it will mark the first showdown of its kind between the first Catholics ever to oppose each other on the major party ticket ...
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Immigration Court: Broken but Fixable
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 5:20pm | Type: Blog -
As a journalist I covered state and federal civil and criminal cases for more than 30 years and only occasionally did I find myself in the U.S. Immigration courts. So when I read California attorney Peter Afra ...
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As Hateful Ads Expand to D.C., So Does Sojourners’ Response
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 7:11pm | Type: Blog -
Responding to attacks on Muslims, Sojourners has been placing ads around the country with a simple reminder of Jesus' command to love our neighbors. The billboards and subway ads read: “Love Your Muslim N ...
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Remind the AP That People Aren’t 'Illegal'
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 2:40pm | Type: Blog -
The words we use are powerful, especially when it comes to talking about people created in God’s image. The words we use are powerful, especially when it comes to talking about p ...
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Introducing Meet the Nones: We Don't Need Your Labels
Originally Posted: 10/25/2012 - 3:13pm | Type: Blog -
“Nones” is a term that includes atheists and agnostics, but also anyone who does not identify with a traditional religious faith. Therein lies my concern. Editor's Note: ...
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Immigration Leaders Gather to Discuss Need for Reform
Originally Posted: 10/09/2012 - 11:53am | Type: Blog -
The solution that is developed by the federal government must be a conglomeration of multifaceted mechanisms that address the brokenness of our current system at the policy, legal, and administrative level. ...
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Study: 20 Percent of U.S. Adults Have No Religious Affiliation
Originally Posted: 10/09/2012 - 9:56am | Type: Blog -
One-in-five adults in the United States — and a third of adults under 30 — say they have no religious affiliation. The numbers are out in a new report called “’Nones’ on the Rise,” put out by the Pew Forum on ...
