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Just Say No to Khartoum Appeasement

Elizabeth Palmberg 8-07-2009
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Making Peace with Sam Harris

Ernesto Tinajero 8-03-2009
Dr. Francis Collins, President Obama's choice to head the National Institute of Health, has been met with much resistance from certain quarters of the scientific community.
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Video: Jim Wallis and Tavis Smiley on Perspective, Prayer, and the President

Jim Wallis 7-16-2009
Earlier this year, Jim Wallis sat down with Tavis Smiley to talk about his role in public media of raising issues and asking questions that others are not.
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Do a New Thing: 20 Years After Spike Lee's Groundbreaking Film on Race in America

Edward Gilbreath 6-25-2009

It's hot in Chicago. Summer is officially doing its thing.

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Two Myths About North Korea, Iran, and Disarmament

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson 6-17-2009
Anyone watching the news over the past couple of months will have noticed a flurry of action from two of the nations in former President Bush's infamous "Axis of Evil." North Korea tested a long-ra
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Demand an Exit Strategy for Afghanistan

Nate Van Duzer 6-11-2009
In a March interview with 60 Minutes, President Obama declared about the esc
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Urgent: White House Witness Against Torture

the Web Editors 6-11-2009
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Arab Christians Getting Overdue Recognition

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 6-10-2009
I was glad to see Daoud Kuttab's recent post on Obama and Arab Christians.
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Praise and Criticism for Obama's Cairo Speech

Aaron Taylor 6-10-2009
The world stood at attention as President Obama gave a historic speech to the Muslim world. In mainstream U.S.
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Combatants for Peace: A Grassroots View from the Middle East, Part 2

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 6-09-2009

Another amazing grassroots effort in the Middle East is Combatants for Peace, a group of former Palestinian fighters and Israeli soldiers who have united to reject violence and tell their stories to each other as a way of finding peace.

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Remembering Stories: A Grassroots View from the Middle East, Part 1

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 6-08-2009

When President Obama was giving his speech in Cairo, I was just across the Red Sea in Aqaba, Jordan, and caught a glimpse on a corner store TV, the translation making it hard to hear his words.

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IMF Needs a Reality Check, Not a Blank Check

Hayley Hathaway 6-04-2009
Earlier last month, President Obama requested $108 billion in new money for the International Monetary Fund to show the world that we stood up for our commitments to fighting the global recession.
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Eschatology or Bigotry?

Gareth Higgins 5-28-2009
A couple of weeks ago on Glenn Beck's talk radio show, a woman called in to suggest that because President Obama appears to be raising the tax rate to around the same as what it was under President
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Discovering Common Ground

Jim Wallis 5-21-2009
The media coverage and analysis of President Obama's speech at Notre Dame on Sunday largely focused o
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Shedding 'Pro-Choice' and 'Pro-Life' Labels

Julie Polter 5-21-2009
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Thoughts on Obama's Notre Dame Address

Jim Wallis 5-18-2009
After weeks of controversy surrounding Notre Dame's invitation to President Obama to receive an honorary doctorate as this year's commencement speaker, we have seen both the American democratic tra
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Peace in the Middle East: A Step Forward

Jim Wallis 5-18-2009
Two days, in comparison to years of conflict, is not a lot of time, but it was long enough for a broad spectrum of Christian leaders to find hope in a growing consensus around a way forward for pea
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Challenging Obama on Abortion

Glen H. Stassen 5-18-2009

This is a challenge to President Obama and Congress written in light of his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame.

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For the Record: Still Not the Religious Left

Jim Wallis 5-08-2009
Before our Mobilization to End Poverty, a member of our staff sent an e-mail to some members of the media in which he mistakenly referred to it as "the first big mobilization of the Religious Left
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God's Image and Caesar's Image: Torture and the Currency of Empire

Arthur Waskow 5-04-2009

One of the central teachings of Torah is that all human beings are made in the Image of God. That teaching and what flows from it are at the heart of Jewish prohibitions on the use of torture -- and perhaps at the heart of Christian opposition to torture as well.

Indeed, the Rabbis

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