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Building A World Without Hate
Originally Posted: 04/22/2013 - 11:59am | Type: Blog

immigration reform * Anne Frank wins Nobel Prize for her 12th novel * Harvey Milk expands LGBT equality ...

Christian Churches Together: Response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” on its 50th Anniversary
Originally Posted: 04/22/2013 - 11:52am | Type: Press

April 20, 2013 Sojo in the News Bill Scheurer ...

National and community prosperity require rapport-building
Originally Posted: 04/22/2013 - 11:48am | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Matt Braman ...

Muslim Leaders: We Stand Against Terrorism
Originally Posted: 04/19/2013 - 4:46pm | Type: Blog

As the manhunt intensified in and around Boston, Muslim leaders convened a press conference Friday to denounce the attacks and to urge the media not to link their faith with violent extremism. ...

(VIDEO) Evangelicals Take Immigration Reform to Hill: Say Amnesty v. Deportation a 'False Choice'
Originally Posted: 04/19/2013 - 12:48pm | Type: Blog

Hours after Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration bill dropped early Wednesday, evangelical leaders from across the country gathered at the Capitol to raise their voices for comprehensive immigration reform. ...

Pope Francis Redirects Employee Bonuses to Charity
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 4:07pm | Type: Blog

Vatican employees won’t receive the special bonus they are traditionally awarded when a new pope is elected, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday, under orders from Pope Francis to give extra money to charity ins ...

More Than 3,300 Gun Deaths Since Newtown; Faith Leaders Say 'Enough'
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 3:34pm | Type: Press

April 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

'Cambodia: Losing Ground' — Stories of Land Grabbing
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 3:10pm | Type: Blog

The images tell the particular stories of Cambodians directly affected by land grabbing, the buying or leasing of large pieces of land in developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies, governme ...

We Are in a Battle for the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 2:26pm | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

Theologian Jim Wallis: Restore Faith In The Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 11:33am | Type: Press

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

Evangelicals Descend on Capitol Hill to Push Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 11:05am | Type: Press

April 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Napp Nazworth ...

Evangelicals Become Unlikely Supporters Of Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 10:32am | Type: Press

April 17, 2013 Sojo in the News David Welna ...

An Incarceration of Silence
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 1:55pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

Is the West's Reckless Lifestyle Killing Our Poorer Neighbors?
Originally Posted: 04/17/2013 - 11:56am | Type: Blog

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 ...

U.S. Muslims Mobilize to Prevent Boston Backlash
Originally Posted: 04/17/2013 - 11:06am | Type: Blog

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 ...

Faith leaders press case for US gun laws at vigil
Originally Posted: 04/16/2013 - 4:31pm | Type: Press

April 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Big Journalism (Breitbart) ...

Archbishop praises MLK's letter from jail as prophetic
Originally Posted: 04/16/2013 - 4:28pm | Type: Press

April 16, 2013 Sojo in the News Catholic News Agency ...

Evangelicals Try To Soften Hearts On Overhauling Immigration
Originally Posted: 04/18/2013 - 1:46pm | Type: Press

April 15, 2013 Sojo in the News John Burnett ...

Sikhs joins other religions demanding strict gun control laws in US
Originally Posted: 04/16/2013 - 2:36pm | Type: Press

April 13, 2013 Sojo in the News NDTV.com ...

Tax or Fee? Pastors Push Back Against City’s ‘Annual Registration Fee’
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 3:59pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

God and Country: Jim Wallis’s biblically based challenge to Washington.
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 1:55pm | Type: Press

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

Life, Death, Taxes, and the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 12:46pm | Type: Blog

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 Later, Church Leaders Respond to King’s 'Birmingham Jail' Letter
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 12:17pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

Loving My Own Life Means Sharing It With Others
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 11:44am | Type: Blog

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 ...

Is There No Cure for These?
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 9:49am | Type: Blog

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 ...

'Si, Se Puede!' Tens of Thousands Gather on National Mall for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/13/2013 - 12:50pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

I Share a Dream for the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/12/2013 - 5:01pm | Type: Press

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

Pastor Jim Wallis Back To Being Political
Originally Posted: 04/16/2013 - 3:28pm | Type: Press

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

How Will I Know I Have Given Enough?
Originally Posted: 04/12/2013 - 2:07pm | Type: Blog

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 to Honor the Spirit of the Republic
Originally Posted: 04/12/2013 - 1:38pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

Immigration reform gets personal for evangelicals
Originally Posted: 04/12/2013 - 12:18pm | Type: Press

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

'Pacem in Terris' — 50 Years Later
Originally Posted: 04/11/2013 - 11:39am | Type: Blog

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 ...

I Will Miss David Kuo
Originally Posted: 04/11/2013 - 11:20am | Type: Blog

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 ...

WATCH: Live Stream of Immigration Reform Rally
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 3:39pm | Type: Blog

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

The Budget Battles are Back
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 2:46pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

Wealth Inequality in America
Originally Posted: 05/10/2013 - 1:57pm | Type: Magazine Article

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

Jesus Resurrected and 'The Undocumented'
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 10:17am | Type: Blog

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 ...

HKS Panel Encourages Religion in the Public Sphere
Originally Posted: 04/09/2013 - 10:43am | Type: Press

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

Cohabitation Before Marriage Becoming Ubiquitous
Originally Posted: 04/09/2013 - 10:18am | Type: Blog

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

Jim Wallis on Serving the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 2:57pm | Type: Press

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

Jim Wallis Talks Faith's Role In Politics, Gay Marriage And Immigration
Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 2:54pm | Type: Press

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

Top Mormon Leader Warns Against ‘Tolerance Trap’
Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 2:33pm | Type: Blog

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 ...

Faith leaders plan anniversary response to King's “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 4:02pm | Type: Press

April 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Staff Reporter ...

Jim Wallis on the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 10:04am | Type: Press

April 7, 2013 Sojo in the News Joshua DuBois ...

Jimmy Carter vs. the Southern Baptist Convention: A Sea Change?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2013 - 5:02pm | Type: Press

April 5, 2013 The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com ...

Evangelical Leaders Unite for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 04/05/2013 - 4:43pm | Type: Press

April 4, 2013 Sojo in the News Relevant Magazine ...

The Crossroads of Outreach and Immigration
Originally Posted: 04/05/2013 - 4:41pm | Type: Press

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

Workin Together on Capitol Hill for the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/05/2013 - 4:41pm | Type: Press

April 5, 2013 Sojo in the News Morning Joe ...

GOP budget fails moral standard
Originally Posted: 04/04/2013 - 2:30pm | Type: Press

April 3, 2013 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

The Passion of Christ and the Plight of Our Undocumented Neighbors
Originally Posted: 04/04/2013 - 2:26pm | Type: Blog

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 ...