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This Palestinian Life: Stories of Nonviolent Resistance

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 4-14-2010

Last weekend I was at a family reunion where I had been invited to show pictures from my sabbatical in the Middle East last spring.

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A Reading for April 15: The Parable of the Taxpayer

Chuck Collins 4-13-2010
This time of year it is useful to recount the parable of the angry taxpayer (from the VERY New Testament).
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Looking at Christ Through Cultural Lenses

Allison Ash 4-07-2010
Looking at me, pale-skinned and blonde-haired, you would not know that I come from a diverse background with an African-American great-grandmother and an American-Indian great-grandfather.
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Searching for Community in a Hyper-Mobile Culture

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 4-06-2010
My friend Joe told me the story of relocating his family to be part of a church that takes community seriously.
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The Darkness of Easy Hate and the Light of Easter's Love

Ernesto Tinajero 4-02-2010

Hate is easy and the domain of the lazy. This insight came in the darkness of the early morning. I wish I could say that it was due to a Lenten meditation that pierced my own darkness, but alas, it rose as I got up too late to do my study.

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Attempting to Understand Clergy Sexual Abuse

Wendy Murray 3-30-2010
The sex abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church simply will not go away. Even the Pope himself is not immune.
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'God Will Not Hear You': Death Threat to a Colombian Pastor

Elizabeth Palmberg 3-29-2010
"God will not hear you," the death thre
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A Pastor's Petition

Matthew Soerens 3-29-2010

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This One's for Isaiah

Jennifer Kottler 3-26-2010
I get asked often how I can stay in the crazy business of trying to change and shape public policy.
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Escaping from Real Communism

Cheuang Kavan 3-26-2010

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A Real Hero

Maryada Vallet 3-25-2010

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'What Has Helped Me the Most is My Faith'

Juan Daniel Espitia 3-23-2010

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Why Are There So Few Solo Women Church Planters?

Nadia Bolz-Weber 3-22-2010
Church planting is its own weird thing. It takes a certain personality to think you might, just might, be able to (with tons of help from God) start a church from scratch.
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A Flawed Step Forward on Health-Care Reform

Jim Wallis 3-19-2010

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health-care debate. Yesterday's New York Times story on the final House vote expected this weekend simply said, "Showdown Near." That says it all about the gunfight at the O.K.

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Pray Immigration Reform Into Passage

Jim Wallis 3-18-2010

On Sunday, a major march for immigration reform will take place in Washington, D.C. Tens of thousands of people will gather to call on the White House to lead, and put forward an immigration reform bill whose time has come.

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'My Prayers Were Heard'

Juan Daniel Espitia 3-18-2010

An immigrant woman's testimony, as told to Juan Daniel Espitia, a pastor in Solana Beach, California.

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Video: Phone Calls from Papi

Eileen Mignoni 3-17-2010

Linzi, a U.S. citizen, fell in love with Domingo, a Mexican immigrant, when she was 13 years old. They were married in 2006. They have three daughters together.

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Four Steps to Save the Souls of Big Banks

Jim Wallis 3-16-2010

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The Family Research Council, Wolves, and Shepherds' Clothing

Charles Gutenson 3-16-2010

In a recent Family Research Council e-mail, in an article titled, "Rev. Wallis: Wolf in Shepard's [sic] Clothing?" Tony Perkins aligned himself with Fox News commentator Glenn Beck's recent attacks. Perkins said:

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I'm also an 'Illegal'

Ju Hong 3-15-2010

"Look at those illegals," my friend laughed, pointing at two Latino immigrants leaning against a fence nearby. I smiled and brushed it off, but inside, I was angry. I wondered what he would say if he knew that I'm also an "illegal."

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