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Justice in the Hole: A New Way to Educate

Ernesto Tinajero 9-22-2010
I think about the gospel as being a new way of seeing the world. Jesus would empower people that usually did not have power in their normal day to day life.
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Eat, Pray, Love ... Yourself?

Debra Dean Murphy 8-27-2010

Eat Pray Love the movie has the makings of a summer hit, with Julia Roberts as its star and Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book as its source material.

The book was something of a phenomenon when it was published in 2006: instantly popular and penned by an accomplished writer (a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002) who was immensely likeable on the talk-show circuit.

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Vandana Shiva: Gandhi, MLK, and the Way of Jesus in the Obama Administration

Jarrod McKenna 7-09-2010
God gets at us in the funniest of ways. Just this week the Spirit stirred in me while reading an interview with one of my heroes, Vandana Shiva. The reporter from YES!
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Missionaries: What's Wrong with Them?

David Griffiths 6-22-2010
Mention the word "missionary" to an assortment of people around the world, and you are sure to see quite a range of reactions.
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Slavery is Alive and Well ... For Now

Justin Fung 4-30-2010

It'd be nice if enacting a law would solve the problem, wouldn't it?

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From Fear to Fact: U.S. Citizen Arrested for 'Driving While Latino' in Arizona

Lisa Sharon Harper 4-29-2010

Certain moments in our nation's history have consistently opened the door for the least civil voices to enact evil through civil policy: think the institution of race-based U.S. slavery, the Indian removals, Jim Crow laws, legalized segregation, the federal protection of lynching mobs, and, don't forget, the Japanese internment camps, among others.

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Why the Tea Party Movement Should be Anti-War

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-16-2010
What is the Tea Party position on war?

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Nonviolence: What About Hitler?

Rose Marie Berger 4-12-2010
In any in-depth conversation about the effectiveness of nonviolence as a strategy, this question always comes up: Would these nonviolent strategies have worked against the Nazis?
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What Our New Nuclear Policy Really Means

David Cortright 4-07-2010
The new U.S.
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A New START Toward Nuclear Disarmament

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson 3-30-2010
When word came down last Friday that the U.S. and Russia would sign a new strategic arms reduction treaty (START), Ana Marie Cox posted this message to her 1.5 million twitter followers:

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A Disturbing Question and a Determined Conviction on the Treatment of Women

Ken Fong 3-08-2010
At the urging of one of EBCLA's deacons, I began reading NY Times bestseller http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide
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Committed: Family Values from Eat, Pray, Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert

LaVonne Neff 3-05-2010
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670021652?ie=UTF8&tag=sojo_blog-20&lin...
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The Question of Climate Change is Secondary to the Need for Creation Care

Tracey Bianchi 3-04-2010
It is still very much winter in Chicago. Sure, the calendar says March, but the piles of snow on the ground look more like mid-January. Everything is brown and crusty.
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Religion and Women: The Oldest Injustice

Eugene Cho 1-15-2010
Nicolas Kristof had a recent article in The New York Times titled, "Religion and Women," t
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Copenhagen's Train Wreck: Neither Ambitious, Fair, nor Binding

Tim Costello 12-21-2009
In cold, sleeplessness and utter frustration, Copenhagen's delegates witnessed a depressing conclusion of the glacial-speed negotiations on climate change.
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The Locavore's Dilemma: What We Eat is More Than Just a Personal Choice

LaVonne Neff 11-17-2009
I'm a cradle vegetarian. Didn't have even a bite of meat -- red or white, fish or fowl -- until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog.
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Feeding the Hungry: Remembering Norman Borlaug

Ernesto Tinajero 9-14-2009
My church started a community garden this summer. Our tomatoes, beans, and greens now grace the shelves of our food bank.
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Sex Trafficking: Rescuing the Other Jaycee Dugards

Julie Clawson 8-31-2009
I, along with the rest of the nation, have watched in horror this past week as the details of the J
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In the Culture War, Justice Loses

Aaron Taylor 8-14-2009
A few days ago, radical Muslims in Pakistan began terrorizing the Christian minority in the town of Gojra.
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I Met a White Man and He Couldn't Dance

Leroy Barber 6-22-2009

I attended a majority white high school in the late '70s and since that time my life has been one cross-cultural bowl of spaghetti. It tastes good but is really messy, sometimes sauce all over your shirt.

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