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Just Say No to Khartoum Appeasement

Elizabeth Palmberg 8-07-2009
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Democracy is the Real Victim in Honduras' Coup

Ashley Morse 7-02-2009

On the morning of June 28, Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was awoken suddenly as masked soldiers burst into his home. As the media has been rave to point out, still in his pajamas, the elected head of state was forced onto a plane and shipped out of the country.

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Water of Life: Wee Man Doesn't Take it for Granted (And Neither Should You)

Cathleen Falsani 6-08-2009
One of the everyday things Vasco has enjoyed most since arriving in Chicago from Malawi five weeks ago is being able to go into the kitchen and pour a cool glass of crystal clear water, from the si
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Obama in Cairo: A Just Peace

Valerie Elverton Dixon 6-04-2009
Truth. Respect. Security.

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The Legacy of an Eco-Prophet: Remembering Thomas Berry

Cesar Baldelomar 6-03-2009
Today's most pressing task for humanity, I believe, is to halt the current environmental crisis.
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The Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines

Katrina Abarcar 5-26-2009

One morning earlier this year, Edelina "Eden" Jolloso-Jerus, working at her family store in San Juan-Roro, the Philippines, was shot five times by a helmeted man and killed before the eyes of her two children.

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The Consensus Problem

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-22-2009
The folks at NPR's Planet Money podcast have already sort of repented for verbally badgering Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and high government official who happens to be female, in
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Financial Assistance: Is Your Church Ready?

Anonymous Guest Contributor 5-21-2009
In the upcoming weeks and months, desperate people will knock on the doors of almost every church across the nation to ask for emergency financial assistance.
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A Big Problem for Land Justice

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-18-2009
Why should the world turn away from huge, monocropped factory farms? Pick the reason you like best.
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Fox 'News' on 'Obama's Apology Tour'

Gareth Higgins 5-11-2009
Yesterday, under the headline 'Obama's Apology Tour', FoxNews.com, in typical sneering style, published http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/10/world-stage-obama/" href="https://sojo.net/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.fox">http://www.fox
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The Social Side Effects of Global Warming

Cesar Baldelomar 4-22-2009
We are at a global turning point.
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The Obama Budget's Promise and Peril

Bob Greenstein 4-07-2009

I've been asked for a few words about how the recession may affect poverty in the United States, and also about policy issues related to poverty that have emerged from the economic recovery legislation and from the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

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Obama and the G-20

Jim Wallis 3-24-2009
Next week, leaders of the G-20, the 19 countries with the largest economies and the European Union, will meet in London.
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I'm the Older Brother

Tony Campolo 3-24-2009

When it comes to President Obama's stimulus package and its provisions to help those Americans who are having great difficulty paying their home mortgages, I have come to realize that I'm like the older brother in the story of the Prodigal Son.

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The Economy and Abortion

Jim Wallis 3-12-2009
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Is the 'Ebony Experiment' Wrong?

Edward Gilbreath 3-10-2009
An article in the Chicago Tribune caught my attention this week.
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Obama's Call to Rebuild

Jim Wallis 2-25-2009
This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.
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A Balanced View of Government

Donald Miller 2-12-2009

I'm honored to take part in the Mobilization to End Poverty.

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Pastor-in-Chief

Diana Butler Bass 2-10-2009
In this week's town hall meetings, President Obama demonstrated an important aspect of his office: Pastor-in-Chief.

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My Hope is not Entirely Dead

Bart Campolo 2-02-2009
I want to be hopeful these days, what with Barack Obama just being inaugurated as our nation's 44th president, but Tanya
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