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Beyond Church Walls: Reflections on Faith in Action

April Joy Damian 2-27-2009

Growing up Catholic in San Francisco, I was fortunate to be raised with a passion for social justice rooted in my faith. Contrary to the present-day association of Christianity with political and social conservatism, I view my faith as radical.

Let's Talk About Race

Barby Zuniga Ward 2-26-2009

Most of my life I have been thinking about race and religion -- as a child when my family left my native Costa Rica to move to inner-city New Jersey, as a teenager struggling to develop my faith an

Seeking Reconciliation Between Rich and Poor in Immokalee

Lauren Maxwell 1-30-2009

When I think of Immokalee, my mind remembers a place where reconciliation has come alive.

Your Ballots at Work: 'Waterboarding is Torture'

Ryan Rodrick Beiler 1-16-2009

This kind of feels close to an exercise in I-told-you-so, but for all the folks who assert that voting is a hopelessly corrupted exercise in irredeemable empire, consider as an indicator the testim

A Poem in Honor of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Lisa Sharon Harper 1-12-2009

Sunday, January 11 was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. I wrote this poem, And to the Little Ones, in honor of the day.