Who knew hideous sea creatures had their own club?
Columns
The bigger the financial corporation, the quicker your dollar exits your community.
There are many things they seemed to hold in common, not least an instinctive nonviolence, contrasting so sharply with the police, who so often let the logic of force drive their actions (they found out, as often in history, that the logic that works with criminals doesn’t really apply to idealists).
When, as is true today, the richest 10 percent own 85 percent of the world’s wealth and the poorest 50 percent live off the crumbs of 1 percent of the total global wealth, you’ve created a market where slavery will thrive.
My new approach this year is not to promise better behavior or new experiences, but to simply look back at the mistakes of last year and avoid repeating them.
The apostle writes his letter to folks who are feeling anxious, worried, insecure, and unsettled. They don’t know what the future holds for their lives, the church, their well-being, their community. Sound familiar?
At first, I thought I had the flu because I didn't get a flu shot this year and naturally had to be punished by the medical community.
The war in Iraq was fundamentally a war of choice, and it was the wrong choice.
I'm grateful to the men who use their power, money, and influence on behalf of women.
It was not the stones thrown by his tormentors that made him suffer most, he said; it was the silence of his friends.
Evangelicals run the political gamut from conservative and moderate to progressive and decidedly liberal. To suggest that most evangelicals reside on the far right is simply not true.
The real work has been done for years by indigenous leaders on both sides of the border.
No one could stop Troy Davis' execution -- despite his apparent innocence.