April 16, 2013 Sojo in the News Steve Scher ...

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One out of three African-American men will serve some sort of time under present law enforcement practices and the current criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., that number jumps to an estimated three ...

Why are international companies so aggressively promoting foods and cigarettes and drugs that will shorten people's lives and even kill them? Why is nobody stopping them? I s ...

It’s a familiar race against time for Muslim groups. Almost as soon as the smoke cleared around Copley Square, they knew from long experience that some would immediately point the finger of blame in their dire ...

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Church-state separation advocates say by demanding payment of churches for city services, and levying fines for nonpayment (and potentially putting a church in jeopardy of shutting its doors), a municipality w ...

April 15, 2013 Sojo in the News Paul Begala ...

The common good is not only about politics. The common good is about life and how we live it. It is ultimately about how we are all connected. I haven’t written much in the past t ...

Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged white church leaders to confront racism, an ecumenical network has responded to his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” F ...

After a bit of reflection, I came to see that loving my own life really does imply that I want to share it with others. Many of the great Christian thinkers throughout our history ...

Could the common bond of Jesus’ prayer bring two opposing views into the same room in a shared search for understanding and action? Or are the formative cultural experiences so determinative that faith and rel ...

Thousands of people flooded the National Mall on Wednesday to call on Congress for commonsense immigration reform that includes a path to earned citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants ...

April 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Donna Jean Freberg ...

April 12, 2013 Sojo in the News WFSU-FM http://m.news.wfsu.org/?utm_referrer=#mobile/30672 Evangelical pastor Jim ...

I am advocating that individual Christians and church communities stop thinking of serving others as a line in a budget of many competing priorities, and begin to think about emulating God’s grace as central t ...

It is time — it is way past time — to honor the spirit of the republic and the wisdom of the founders by ending our idolatrous worship of guns and our prostration before an interpretation of the Second Amendme ...

April 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Adelle M. Banks ...

On April 11, 1963 Pope John XXIII published an encyclical some initially dismissed as naive and myopic, as too liberal and too lofty. But today, his "Pacem in Terris" is generally lauded as genius an ...

David always believed that our faith should shape our politics, not the other way around. David Kuo was a good friend of mine. After a decade long battle with brain cancer, David ...

Live Stream of Immigration Reform Rally Free desktop streaming application by Ustream Do Not Display ...

As they review Obama's budget proposal, only time will tell if Republicans are willing to engage the president in a serious way to find common ground on deficit reduction instead of letting dysfunction co ...

The Editors An infographic of the racial wealth gap in the U.S. While the rich become even richer, everyone e ...

Our search for the resurrected one, the one who has come to give us life, has everything to do with the dead. At the  Full Frame Film Festival  in Durham last week, I saw Marco ...

April 9, 2013 Sojo in the News Bharath Venkatesh ...

and 2010 with 12,279 women ages 15-44. “Instead of marriage, people are moving into cohabitation ...

April 5, 2013 Sojo in the News Religion and Ethics Newsweekly ...

April 5, 2013 Sojo in the News Jaweed Kaleem ...

The President of the Mormons’ Quorum of Twelve Apostles and next in line to take over the church’s reins didn’t specifically mention gay marriage, but his comments came amid controversy on the issue nationwide ...

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immigration, and only 12 percent of the same group said their religion is the biggest influence on how ...

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While it is impossible to ignore that there are 92 references in Scripture where the word, 'ger' is used, speaking about the stranger in our land and our treatment of these individuals, it is not one ...

April 4, 2013 Sojo in the News Michael D. O’Connor ...

April 4, 2013 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

and destruction” can be in its 12th year of war in Afghanistan and still has troops in Iraq after 10 years. ...

I invite you to watch this short video, and to engage in the discussion as we move forward, toward our common good. Years ago, I tutored inner-city kids from my Washington, D.C., ...

Lisa Sharon Harper "Richard Twiss was willing to step out for what he believed in." ALL EYES WERE f ...

of us. Pursuing the Common Good means “loving your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31). A key component ...

The effects of funding cuts in 100 communities. The effects of the federal funding sequester are beginning to hit, and it’s not a pretty picture. Amanda Terkel and Sam Stein at ...

April 2, 2013 Sojo in the News Jonathan Capehart ...

of $134,992 (in 2009 dollars), while the typical black household had a net worth of $12,124—9 cents for each ...