Ever since the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference issued their recent highly critical report of the advocacy organization NETWORK and the Leadership Conference of Women Religion, the associ ...

FoxNews contributor (and friend of Sojourners) Kirsten Powers has been outspoken in her criticism of the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a fre ...

Business Insider  reported last night: "I think it's probably going to be a long time before Gov. Romney hires another homosexual activist to a prominent position in his campaign," Fischer said. "And that's good news i ...

NPR  reports on a University of California, Berkeley study: Are religious people more moved by compassion than those who described themselves as less religious or non-religious?   Read the whole article  here   (compassio ...

Chicago Tribune   religion reporter  Manya Brachear  reports: Counted together, independent evangelical congregations comprise one of the largest religious groups in the nation, after their evangelical compadres in the Southern Baptist Conv ...

Prayer has always been a part of the American story, and today countless Americans rely on prayer for comfort, direction, and strength, praying not only for themselves, but for their communities, their country ...

Today, Sojourners' Communications Director Tim King talks with CNN's Lisa Desjardins about politicians and God-talk in this 2012 presidential election season. Today, Soj ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Purpose Of Spectacular Wealth, According To A Spectacularly Wealthy Guy Ever since the financial crisis started, we’ve heard plenty from the 1 percent. We’ve heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings o ...

A new White House report that offers guidance on public/private partnerships between the government and faith-based groups leaves critical questions unanswered and does not resolve the issue of religious group ...

THINK PROGRESS: Top Republican Strategist Denies Women Are Paid Less Than Men This morning, during a heated discussion with Rachel Maddow on Meet The Press, GOP consultant Alex Castellanos denied that women make 77 cents for a man’s dollar in the ...

Movers, shakers and policy makers convened over the weekend for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner (aka Nerd Prom) at the Hilton in Washington, D.C. Late-night personality Jimmy Kimmel hosted the gal ...

is equal to the level of strong opposition, researchers report. In the April 4-15 survey, 22 percent ...

CNN: Promise Of The American Dream Is Broken (OPINION) The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that the unemployment rate fell to 8.2%. That should have been a signal that jobs are coming back and that the economy is about to rebound. But, ...

Speaking at Georgetown University, Rep. Paul Ryan called his budget a roadmap to avoid a debt crisis that will hurt the poor hardest of all. Paul Ryan did not want to engage in a ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Hearing And Rallies Over A Law In Arizona Hundreds of chanting demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, denouncing an Arizona immigration law that was under debate inside, saying it would ...

In the 2012 race for the presidency, religious voters will continue to be watched closely. According to  Gallup’s latest poll , Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by 17 points among “very religious voters.” These voters are those who attend religious s ...

There is more support for both gun rights and gay marriage in this election cycle than in the previous two, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Arizona And Interposition (OPINION) The government says Arizona is trying to “interpose” its own judgments on “national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, humanitarian considerations and the rights of law-abiding citize ...

A group of professors and administrators is joining the chorus taking Ryan to task for claiming his budget proposal falls in line with Catholic teaching. Rep. Paul Ryan is slated ...

THE HUFFINGTON POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS: Trayvon Martin Case: Bill Lee, Sanford Police Chief, Remains Under Scrutiny While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin's slaying remains ...

A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a man who alleges he endured anti-Semitic slurs can sue his former supervisors — even though he is not Jewish. A New Jersey appeals cour ...

After nearly 700 people tried to push Gonzaga University to rescind its commencement speaker's invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, supporters of the anti-apartheid hero responded with 11,000 signatures ...

is soaring today. About 15 percent of Americans use food stamps. The program has become what some call ...

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act was just a piece of legislation until this morning, when Judge Gregory Weeks set aside a death penalty sentence that had been meted out to Marcus Robinson in 1994. ...

Young evangelicals are different from their parents and any generation that has preceded them. On Thursday, Sojourners launched its 2012 election campaign, Voting For Us , ...

What is clear is that new modes of thinking are essential to approach a generation that has been devastated by their examples of Christianity and political leadership. As part of ...

News Digest for April 20, 2012 Quote of the day. “I don’t want to overemphasize my Catholicism here. But I know my religion. I know religions in general. In the New Testament ...

The newest generation of adults is checking the “unaffiliated” box at a rate of one in four. But young adults aren’t just showing apathy for religion—it’s politics as well. In a ...

Southern Baptist leaders will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many say set back the denomination's ...

POLITICO: W.H. Escalates Budget War The post-election budget wars suddenly felt closer Wednesday, as the White House threw down the gauntlet on appropriations and House Republicans voted to shift tens of billions of dollars from poverty programs t ...

April 19, 2012   QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Most people in the country ...

College-aged adults are not letting their moral beliefs on social issues filter into their politics. College-aged adults are not letting their moral beliefs on social issues filte ...

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Evangelical Voters Let Politics Trump Religious Purity Not all evangelicals are conservatives -- there is a strong contingent whose faith has led them to focus on issues of poverty and environmental protection -- but most are. ...

A senior Vatican official on Tuesday called for stronger protection for conscientious objection for both the Catholic Church and individual Catholics when they are faced with laws that conflict with their “mor ...

A politically disillusioned electorate and a huge influx of money for attack ads will be a challenge to our country’s democratic processes. The danger, especially for my generation, is to tune out from politic ...

A new poll released today shows that Barack Obama holds a narrow lead over Mitt Romney in economic issues among voters. A new survey released today shows that President Barack ...

A politically disillusioned electorate and a huge influx of money for attack ads will be a challenge to our country’s democratic processes. The danger, especially for my generation, is to tune out from political ...

YAHOO NEWS/AFP: UN Toughens North Korea Sanctions Over Rocket Launch The UN Security Council has ordered tightened sanctions on North Korea over its failed rocket launch and warned of new action if the isolated state stages a nuclear test. Learn ...

The rates of incarceration in the U.S are the highest in the industrialized world. Our criminal justice system is moving further away from the principles of due process, fair and equal justice, and access to c ...

Surprise nominee Dr. Jim Yong Kim has today been chosen as the next President of the World Bank, The Washington Post reports. Surprise nominee Dr. Jim Yong Kim has today been chos ...

NPR: 'Heretics': The Crisis Of American Christianity The United States ranks as the most religious country in the developed world. And New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that despite our politics, debates and doubts, this country ...

THE HUFFINGTON POST: The End of Capitalism -- So What's Next? This year's World Economic Forum in Davos saw intense debate about the future of capitalism. Many participants were asking whether capitalism, with all of its excesses, still ...

The nation’s Catholic bishops are calling on the faithful to pray and mobilize in a “great national campaign” to confront what they see as a series of threats to religious freedom, and they are setting aside t ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation offers ID cards for those with religious objections to being photographed, including the Amish and certain Mennonite groups. But in order to get a nonphoto ID for ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Santorum Out, Evangelicals Edge Closer To Romney, But Warily Rick Santorum had been the last best hope of Christian conservatives who opposed Mitt Romney, derided by many as a “Massachusetts moderate.” Now, facing the abrupt en ...

April 12, 2012   QUOTE OF THE WEEK “That immigrant culture tha ...

WASHINGTON -- Americans feel the "Christian faith" has a positive impact on help for the poor and raising children with good morals, according to a new poll , but it gets a bad rap on its impact on sexuality in society. In a new study co ...

WASHINGTON --  With Rick Santorum’s exit from the White House race, Mitt Romney stands on the cusp of history as the first Mormon to appear at the top of a major party ticket in a general presidential election. Romney, a Brigham Young University-educate ...

A main purpose of the sabbatical was to write a new book and, gratefully, I am now on the last chapter. It’s about “why Jesus came,” and the writing made me feel closer to him. Re-reading C.S. Lewis' Narn ...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 23 million behind bars. Bryan Stevenson of the Legal Justice Initiative, speaking from the Q Conference on Wedensday, said this high rate ...