March 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Erica Werner ...

Two boys from a Steubenville Ohio high school (I’ve opted not to use their names, though they are readily publicized by other media) have been sentenced to time in a juvenile detention center for the rape of a ...

The Editors A half a century after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King’s prophetic words continue to reverberate. In “ To Redeem the Soul of Am ...

Louisiana faith leaders hand-delivered a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal this morning, denouncing his proposal to increase sales tax by 47 percent as “unjust” and “regressive.” Loui ...

The Editors On Good Friday 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. led a nonviolent march through the streets of Birmingham, Ala., to draw attention to the injustices of segregation. Arrested ...

Immigrants are a blessing, not a curse. They are assets, not deficits. I have learned this the hard way after seven years working with the New York City New Sanctuary Movement. ...

Since our entire approach to the community is based on building strong, personal connections and relationships across and beyond the typical barriers of income, gender, race, and religion, we’ve become very aw ...

values. Immediately after Jesus calls the 12 disciples, he warns them that they will be misunderstood, ...

I remember clearly the day I heard the announcement on deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) as I felt an overwhelming surge of emotions in that one moment. A path to opportunity, however fragile and s ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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, ...

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