Clergy

The Murphy Report on Clergy Sexual Abuse: Why We All Need Accountability

Margaret Benefiel 12-08-2009

The day the Murphy Report on clergy sexual abuse of children in Dublin, Ireland was recently released found me

In My Community: Equal at Birth, but Incarcerated at Adulthood

Alex Gee 11-25-2009

Dane County, Wisconsin, is an amazing community for African-American babies to be born into. It is a horrible community in which to live if you are an adult African-American male.

Where Did Jesus Stand at the ELCA Assembly?

Nadia Bolz-Weber 8-28-2009

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Black Church Leaders Meet on AIDS

Rose Marie Berger, Alexis Vaughan 1-01-2008

More than 150 leading African-American clergy, scholars, government officials, and health experts joined in October with the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS to respond to HIV

Nun's Killers Convicted

Steve Thorngate 3-01-2006

A Brazilian court found Rayfran das Neves Sales and Clodoaldo Carlos Batista guilty of the 2005 murder of 73-year-old Catholic sister Dorothy Stang, SND. The men received 27- and 17-year prison sentences, respectively. The ranchers accused of ordering the murder are expected to stand trial this spring. Stang, an Ohio native, had lived since the early 1970s in the Anapu region of Para, Brazil, where she fought large-scale ranching and logging interests to protect poor farmers and the rainforest.

Clinical Clergy

Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 4-01-2004

More people with mental and emotional troubles seek help from clergy than from psychiatrists or medical doctors, according to an article by Dr. Glen Milstein in Psychiatric Times.

In the Lap of Luxury

Pat McDonnell Twair 9-01-1998

From City Council to Rodeo Drive: campaigning for a living wage in Los Angeles.

To Follow the Carpenter of Nazareth

Perry Bush 9-01-1998

For a century and a half, workers and church people have organized together.

Teaming Up With Labor

Paul Graham 9-01-1998

Clergy in the Twin Cities are making economic justice a priority

Healing People for the Struggle

Bill Wylie-Kellermann 9-01-1998

There is a key spiritual gift that the church may bring to labor struggle: pastoral care.