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Breaking the Impasse
Originally Posted: 03/28/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson It's time to reframe the church's conversation around same-sex relationships. ...

On Earth As In Heaven
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Patrick O'Neill Farm labor organizer Baldemar Velasquez on making it real in the here and now. A RECENT ...

Come With Me Into the Fields
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Patrick O'Neill In today's environment, there's little difference between farm labor organizing and immigration reform. ...

'We Dare Not Postpone Action'
Originally Posted: 04/15/2013 - 10:26am | Type: Magazine Article

Christian Churches Together Church leaders respond, 50 years later, to King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." ...

Immigration fight turns focus to SC
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 6:28pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Cameron Joseph ...

Immigration reform advocates target South Carolina
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 6:23pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Erica Werner ...

To Redeem the Soul of America
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Vincent G. Harding King's "living letter" from Birmingham jail still speaks to us all. AT TIME ...

A Gospel for the Common Good
Originally Posted: 04/01/2013 - 1:16pm | Type: Magazine Article

are "blessed" or "happy" (Matthew 5:3-12). But it's a happiness different from and deeper than ...

Ministers launch ad buy on immigration in key South Carolina
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 6:18pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Rosalind S. Helderman ...

The Inaugural Prayer We Didn't Hear
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Eboo Patel Claire Albert An inaugural prayer should connect the particularities of one ...

The Economics of Abundance
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Vincent Miller Austerity budgets in hard economic times are bad economics - and questionable theology. AS THE ...

Calling of the Shepherd
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Marie Dennis A prayer for the new pope to fulfill, in fresh ways, the promise of Vatican II. WHEN POPE BENEDI ...

What Does It Mean to Be on God's Side?
Originally Posted: 03/28/2013 - 9:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The need for the common good has never seemed so timely. I RECENTLY FINISHED a new book, which we ...

A Struggle for the Nation’s Moral Center
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 1:34pm | Type: Blog

Throughout the United States, people of faith are on the front lines of the effort to replace life-without-parole sentences for children with age-appropriate accountability measures that focus on rehabilitatio ...

Dear President Obama: Do Not Visit Bethlehem’s Nativity Church
Originally Posted: 03/14/2013 - 2:14pm | Type: Blog

I suggest that as the president enters the town, from Jerusalem I presume, that he takes a look to his right, and he will see the separation wall. It is hard to miss. It is that ugly concrete structure that gi ...

Evangelical Leaders Launch S.C. Ad Campaign to Call for Bipartisan Immigration Solutions
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 4:53pm | Type: Press

March 13, 2013 Press Releases Today, the Evangelical Immigration Tabl ...

On Scripture: Pressing On Toward Higher Goals
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 12:45pm | Type: Blog

Apparently, we live in a country that values the freedom to own guns, even overly powerful ones like assault rifles. “Second Amendment rights” are invoked as if our founders could predict the kinds of weapons ...

Evangelical leaders hopeful after immigration talk with Obama
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 11:09am | Type: Press

March 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Baptist Press ...

'Good Choice, Mr. President:' Jim Wallis on New Faith-Based Office Director
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 10:54am | Type: Blog

Jim Wallis' statement on Melissa Rogers as head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The White House announced today the appointment of Me ...

New Film Explores Export of American Culture Wars to Eastern Africa
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 9:46am | Type: Blog

What a study found in Uganda was that “religion was being used to demonize and even to kill.” When Ugandan parliament member, David Bahati, introduced the so-called “Kill the Gays ...

The Economy and a Pair of Shoes
Originally Posted: 03/13/2013 - 7:38am | Type: Blog

The globalized economic system is pathologically designed to function towards injustice, and injustice implicates the exploitation, destitution, and ultimate collapse of local communities around the world, esp ...

Malone University to host immigration conference
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 5:49pm | Type: Press

March 12, 2013 Sojo in the News Staff Reporter Canton Repository ...

COMMENTARY: Leaders Who Can Act like Grown Ups
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 1:53pm | Type: Blog

Government by the immature is proving to be a disaster. ... Immature leaders put off important decisions and get lost in small concerns. They take sides like schoolchildren rather than seeing the needs of the ...

Obama Affirms 'Evangelical' Principles for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 1:06pm | Type: Press

March 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Melissa Steffan ...

(VIDEO) Why BBB: An Interview with Sojourners' Jim Wallis and Lisa Sharon Harper
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 12:12pm | Type: Press

February 28, 2013 Sojo in the News BBBImmigration ...

Why We Can't Wait
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 9:39am | Type: Blog

It’s been 50 years since several significant events of the civil rights movement of the 1960s occurred, yet our society is still plagued with systemic racism. It’s been almost 150 years since we abolished slav ...

The Teaching of Empathy
Originally Posted: 03/12/2013 - 9:29am | Type: Blog

I reflected over my five years teaching at this Title I elementary school. "Who am I, what have I done, to become Teacher of the Year?" I asked myself. The announcement ...

Muslims Detail Fear from NYPD Spy Probe
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 4:37pm | Type: Blog

Muslim and civil rights organizations say a New York Police Department program to secretly monitor Islamic communities has created so much fear and suspicion among Muslims that many find it impossible to lead ...

Alabama Civil Rights Site Declared National Historic Landmark
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 3:40pm | Type: Blog

on Bloody Sunday, was declared at National Historic Landmark, along with 12 other sites, by U.S. Secretary ... Sunday, was declared at National Historic Landmark, along with 12 other sites, by U.S. Secretary ... Pettus Bridge, made famous on Bloody Sunday, was declared at National Historic Landmark, along with 12 ...

Meaning, not happiness, should be our pursuit
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:43am | Type: Press

March 9, 2013 Sojo in the News Rev. Clay Stauffer ...

Your View: United Interfaith Action campaigns for citizenship
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:38am | Type: Press

March 7, 2013 Sojo in the News Rev. Marc Fallon ...

Evangelical Leaders Optimistic After Meeting Obama on Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:34am | Type: Press

March 9, 2013 Sojo in the News Anugrah Kumar ...

Immigration Reform News 2013: Obama Meets With Religious Leaders, Calls for Reform Bill Within 60 Days
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:31am | Type: Press

March 8, 2013 Sojo in the News I-Hsien Sherwood ...

Faith Leaders to Obama: "Time Is Now" for Immigration Reform
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:27am | Type: Press

March 8, 2013 Sojo in the News Jordan Fabian ...

Obama talks immigration with religious leaders
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:19am | Type: Press

March 8, 2013 Sojo in the News Susan Crabtree ...

Obama meets with faith leaders on immigration
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 11:17am | Type: Press

March 8, 2013 Sojo in the News Julie Pace ...

Do You Drink Water? Welcome to Idle No More
Originally Posted: 03/11/2013 - 9:53am | Type: Blog

I grew up in the Canadian north of Watson Lake, Yukon. My elementary years were spent in a public school with children of the Kaska nation. As I became an adult I was pretty proud of my exposure to and knowled ...

A Prayer at the White House
Originally Posted: 03/08/2013 - 5:47pm | Type: Blog

A meeting today of faith leaders with the president on immigration reform opened and closed with prayer. This was my prayer at the end. A meeting today of faith leaders with the p ...

Obama pushes expedited timetable on immigration reform in meeting with faith leaders
Originally Posted: 03/08/2013 - 5:41pm | Type: Press

March 8, 2013 Sojo in the News Dan Merica ...

Rand Paul, Drones, and Honor
Originally Posted: 03/08/2013 - 4:54pm | Type: Blog

While I stand with Sen. Rand Paul on the question of the use of militarized spy drones in American airspace and (potentially) on Americans, I am deeply troubled by our use of these weapons in other lands, too, ...

Poverty Advocacy Bundle
Originally Posted: 04/01/2013 - 2:13pm | Type: Product

Justice for the Poor - Participant's Guide Sample (PDF) ...

Americans Nearly Unanimous on 'Ideal' Wealth Distribution, But Unaware of Real Levels of Inequality
Originally Posted: 03/07/2013 - 6:14pm | Type: Blog

This week's viral video is a must-see. The six-minute "Wealth Inequality in America," released Friday, presents the shocking, true size of the wealth gap in the country. ...

The Forgotten
Originally Posted: 03/07/2013 - 6:03pm | Type: Blog

Immigration is not my problem — deportation, not my concern. My family will never be personally harmed by the injustices of a broken system. But I care about immigration reform because injustice is here. I car ...

Hearing Stories of the Past
Originally Posted: 03/07/2013 - 2:57pm | Type: Blog

I especially remember grandpa’s stories about his childhood on the family dairy farm in Greenville, S.C. in the 1920s. I liked to hear stories about the black folks who came and worked with him and his family ...

Evangelicals Use Bible to Sway Republicans on Immigration
Originally Posted: 03/07/2013 - 11:51am | Type: Press

March 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Julie Hirschfeld Davis ...

Laying Under a Border Patrol Truck — An Act of Love and Resistance
Originally Posted: 03/07/2013 - 5:02pm | Type: Blog

you. No one has greater love than this—that one lays down his life for his friends." (John 15:12 ...

Letter to a Kingdom Citizen
Originally Posted: 03/06/2013 - 1:15pm | Type: Blog

also in the absence of accountability, so to prove one’s  allegiance  (Phil. 2:12); to not seek one’s ...

On Scripture: When People You Don’t Much Like Receive God’s Love
Originally Posted: 03/06/2013 - 12:02pm | Type: Blog

Our sense of injustice is quite attuned to moments of personal grievance even as we neglect how our actions may harm others. If anything, these moments of rage reveal much more about us than those we think hav ...

Immigrants Just Won't Go Away
Originally Posted: 03/06/2013 - 10:03am | Type: Blog

When the history of this turbulent age is written, I wonder what they will say about our leaders and us. Will they say that we tried to turn back the clock, to bar the door, to make suspect anyone who was not ...

The Sequester: Pocket Change?
Originally Posted: 03/05/2013 - 5:04pm | Type: Blog

This is not responsible governing. This is not even responsible debate. This is a case of policymakers telling blatant falsehoods to disguise the fact that they did nothing to protect programs like WIC and Mea ...