"Obamacare" continues to be at the forefront of our nation’s health care epidemic. "Obamacare" continues to be at the forefront of our nation’s health care ...

June 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Rev. Howard Bess ...

G8 countries plan to implement greater tax collection internationally through fairer tax policies, greater financial transparency, and open trade. In the green hills of County Fer ...

Could drone surveillance be the answer to conservative’s immigration uncertainties? Could drone surveillance be the answer to conservative’s immigration uncertainties? Republican ...

Will native son and national hero Nelson Mandela survive his latest bout with illness? That is the single question dominating headlines, speeches, twitter, and conversation throughout South Africa. ...

The way fans reacted to Dolores Hart’s decision to become a cloistered nun, you might have thought the movie star had announced her intention to kill herself. The way fans reacted ...

A Methodist pastor of a suburban Oklahama City church is suing the state, claiming its license plate image of a Native American shooting an arrow into the sky violates his religious liberty. ...

In order to stand a chance of the Presidency in the 2016 election, the Republican Party should not obstruct the ideas of an immigration overhaul, says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. ...

Eleven years after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office, more than 50,000 people rested in homeless shelters and on the streets of New York City last night — nearly 45 percent of which were children. ...

Quebec’s decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is having national repercussions. Quebec’s decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is havi ...

President Obama on Friday nominated Ken Hackett, former head of Catholic Relief Services, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. President Obama on Friday nominated Ken Ha ...

If there was ever a fear that the church is splintered, apathetic or dull, the passion and unity on display at the “Why We Can’t Wait” May Revival on Pentecost Sunday earlier this month proved a direct contrad ...

June 14, 2013 Sojo in the News Jakeman Law ...

Week, when Francis washed the feet of 12 juvenile inmates, including two girls, during a visit to a Rome ... Unfinished business Even with the successful charm offensive, the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics ...

On a recent Sunday morning, Jenny Yang stood beside a giant wooden cross and made a case for immigration reform to members of an evangelical church. On a recent Sunday morning, Je ...

Republican's recently hired its former South Carolina chairman to lead engagement with evangelicals, even though 79 percent of evangelicals voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. The Washington ...

Remember Iran? You know, the place where we first saw massive demonstrations for freedom and dignity, before the Arab Spring? Remember Iran? You know, the place where we first saw ...

Amid calls to get more Muslims using the Internet, experts who have studied Muslims online caution that the virtual Islamic community can be a “double-edged sword.” Amid calls to ...

The vast majority of evangelicals have voted with the GOP in recent elections. In fact, despite some qualms about his Mormon faith, 79 percent of evangelicals voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, ...

Mixing religion and entertainment, as NBC has tried to do with its new prime time TV sitcom Save Me, starring Anne Heche, can be a tricky business. Mixing religion and entertainme ...

There are moments, before and after the Revolution, that we mutually agree to forget in order to plant hands to hearts and let tears fall on the fourth day of the seventh month every year. ...

I love our country and the people in it. I admit that I have received many more opportunities than I deserve. I am ready to facilitate opportunities for others. When I first met ...

June 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Rev. Samuel Rodriguez ...

whether they were obligated to pay Roman taxes (Matthew 22:15-22; Mark 12:13-17). An affirmative response ...

June 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Maryada Vallet ...

June 11, 2013 Sojo in the News Deborah Fikes ...

(cf. Micah 6:8; Amos 5:10,12,15).  Pictures as a  part  of due process may be helpful, but images ...

Jesus didn't worry much about stepping on political toes, and the Bible insists that governments be just toward the least of these (the books of the prophets alone make this point very clear). ...

Eleven legislators, all white male Christians, backed a bill to codify Christianity in state law, saying the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not trump the state’s rights. The effort died a quick ...

Now that you’re joining the Patriots, I’d like to offer you a few pointers on your new regional home. I realize that, to someone from the deep South, this may seem like just another part of Yankeedom, but New ...

Why would evangelical Christians want anything to do with public schools? Judging from decades of culture war rhetoric, these are bastions of secular humanism where God and his fearers are unwelcome. School pr ...

On Slate, Emily Bazelon laments her colleagues’ lack of outrage at the revelations of the National Security Agency’s vacuuming up of data on what all of us are doing. In the New York Times, Ross Douthat explai ...

especially fertile territory, with 1.2 million Mormons. In Europe, many of those willing to listen to Mormon ...

June 7, 2013 Sojo in the News Stoyan Zaimov ...

without papers. They were 12 or 13, like me, and pretty unremarkable and brown. I can still feel ...

Despite the progress on immigration reform being made in the Senate, this week offered an unfortunate reminder of the uphill battle any legislation faces in the House of Representatives. ...

June 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Angie Moses ...

June 5, 2013 Sojo in the News Jeff Kunerth ...

June 7, 2013 Sojo in the News Daniel Gonzalez ...

On a recent Monday evening, a room inside Christ Community Church was transformed into a coffeehouse with fresh-brewed coffee, plenty of popped kettle corn and the thorny subject of racism on the table. ...

If you believe that all of creation is God’s good creation — including icky things like business and politics — then they too are in need of redemption, not rejection. My city, Washington, D.C., is flooded wit ...

Nearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide is emerging — this time over the teachings of 16th-century Reformer John Calvin — that threatens to upen ...

For Raed Jarrar, the FBI’s decision Wednesday to begin tracking hate crimes against Arabs is a battle won in a larger war. For Raed Jarrar, the FBI’s decision Wednesday to begin t ...

Bishops in the Church of England, who had strenuously opposed a bid to allow same-sex marriage, signaled that they won’t try to derail the bill after an overwhelming vote of support in the House of Lords. ...

Colorado became the eighth U.S. state to grant driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants on Wednesday. Colorado became the eighth U.S. state to grant driver's lic ...

Pope Francis condemns consumerism and the "culture of waste" especially pertaining to food. On Wednesday during his weekly address, Pope Francis condemned consumerism a ...

With the release of their ninth annual report, members of the Hindu American Foundation are pushing policymakers to take action against international human rights violations directed at Hindus. ...

[Will Campbell] confused his critics – first the Right and then the Left – by insisting that his soul did not belong to any team – racial, political, religious, cultural. It belonged to the Kingdom of God. The ...

Consider how many useless metrics we use to chart our nation’s course. Politicians fixate on the federal deficit, for example, because it’s an easy number to fling at opponents, even though it doesn’t truly me ...

Finding the integral relationship between your own personal good and the common good is your best contribution to our future. And it is the best hope we have for a better life together. ...