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The Debt Ceiling Play: My 'CliffsNotes' Version

Jim Wallis 7-07-2011

Our country is in the midst of a clash between two competing moral visions. It is not, as we have known in recent history, a traditional fight between Republicans and Democrats. It is a conflict between those who believe in the common good and those who believe individual good is the only good.

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Afghanistan Weekly Digest: Taliban. Britain. Obama BBC Interview.

Hannah Lythe 5-26-2011
[Editors' note: As part of Sojourners' campaign to end the war in Afghanistan, we will run a weekly Afghanistan news digest to educate our readers about the latest n
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Osama, Obama, and Twitter

Betsy Shirley 5-04-2011
Seconds after news of Osama bin Laden's death, I logged on to Twitter and watched the 140-character updates roll in.

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Prayer of the Day: Work for change

the Web Editors 3-04-2011
In the strength of your spirit and inspired by your compassion, we make this promise to work for change which empowers the forgotten.
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Still Missing in the Arab World: Assembly and Free Speech

Daoud Kuttab 2-18-2011
Ten years ago, I established AmmanNet, the Arab world's first Internet radio that used technology to create audio and text content freely.
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Call on Obama: Tell Mubarak to Leave Now

Jim Wallis 2-03-2011

By all journalistic reports, it was the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak that sent thousands of armed thugs into Tahrir Square and the streets of Cairo yesterday to bring violence to w

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The Dream Deferred for Millions of Americans

Johnathan Smith 1-17-2011

In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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What a Tragedy Can Call Us To Do

Jim Wallis 1-13-2011
We needed to be called to transcend politics in our response to the shootings in Arizona, lest the politics of our reactions to this tragedy turn us even further against one another.
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Refracting America Through 9/11 Lens

Jim Wallis 8-25-2010
"Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Is Obama a Christian? Cathleen Falsani Responds on CNN

the Web Editors 8-23-2010

Sojourners magazine columnist Cathleen Falsani was interviewed on CNN last Sunday about her 2004 conversation with then-Senator Barack Obama

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Immigration, Children, and the Way of Jesus

Debra Dean Murphy 6-15-2010

Last month, an encounter between Michelle Obama and a Latina child in a suburban Maryland school brought into sharp relief one of the most pressing issues surrounding U.S.

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Health-Care Reform: Leading with Respect

Melvin Bray 7-28-2009
Americans are dying for want of health care.
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Fear, Race, and Pride in the Gates Arrest

Alan Bean 7-27-2009
A New York Times piece picks up on a question http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/
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Professor Gates, Sgt. Crowley, and the Balance of Power

Melvin Bray 7-24-2009
There are only a handful of widely, cross-culturally known black intellectuals in this country-Maya Angelou, Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Julianne Malveaux, and maybe a few others.
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Why We Still Need the NAACP

Aja M. Carr 7-20-2009
Last week marked the centennial celebration of the nation's oldest and most respected civil rights organization, the National
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'A Step-by-Step Agenda for the Elimination of Nuclear Arms'

Jim Wallis 7-06-2009
The page one story in Sunday's New York Times is one that I have been waiting for for a long time.
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Obama in Cairo: A New Beginning

Jim Wallis 6-09-2009
Every so often, I will begin the week with a post about something that I believe deserves further reflection and comment from the God's Politics community.
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Obama Reaches Out to Palestinian Christians

6-05-2009
It is undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslim and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years they have endured the pain of dislocation.
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The Good News About Yesterday's Duel

Jim Wallis 5-22-2009
I'm in Germany at the biannual Kirchentag festival of faith of the German churches, so I missed the news and analysis of President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney's spee
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A New President and a New Generation Seek a Nuclear Weapons-Free Future

Jim Wallis 5-08-2009
An import
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