Politics

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.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Julie Polter 6-01-2009

A promising new movement leaves the bumper-sticker platitudes behind and offers the potential to actually reduce abortion.

On Racism

Brian McLaren 5-29-2009

Many in the Republican Party and some noteworthy Christian leaders have come together to call Judge Sotomayor a racist.

Christian Soldiers in Afghanistan

Valerie Elverton Dixon 5-29-2009

William Faulkner once said: "The past is not dead.

Sotomayor: She Deserves Respect

Chuck Warnock 5-28-2009

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Barack Obama has electrified the Latino community in America.

The Good News About Yesterday's Duel

Jim Wallis 5-22-2009

I'm in Germany at the biannual Kirchentag festival of faith of the German churches, so I missed the news and analysis of President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney's spee

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

Dick Cheney's Contempt for Americans

Obery M. Hendricks Jr. 5-20-2009

Dick Cheney is a strange creature. For public consumption he is the cool, principled champion of the American people willing to take hard public stands on their behalf.

Dogma and Disagreement

Marilyn McEntyre 5-19-2009

I recently found myself in conversation with a fellow believer who asked where I stood on the "non-negotiable" issues that seemed to him definitive for voting Christians.

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

God or Country?

Elizabeth Palmberg 5-12-2009

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Fox 'News' on 'Obama's Apology Tour'

Gareth Higgins 5-11-2009

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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

The New 'Nones' Aren't Atheist--Just Unaffiliated

Kevin Lum 5-08-2009

Historically, the number of individuals who say they have no religious affiliation in America ranges between 5-10%, but a new poll conducted by Robert Putnam (of http://www.amazon.com/gp/p

Doing Kingdom Work

Jim Wallis 5-07-2009

There were some remarkable outcomes to last week's Mobilization to End Poverty, with nearly 50 sponsors an

Are Christians Bad for an Empire's Economy? Should They Be?

Julie Clawson 5-06-2009

Mike recently brought to my attention a letter written by Pliny the Younger to the Emperor Trajan written aroun

Video: Eugene Cho Interviews Jim Wallis

Eugene Cho 5-04-2009

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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

Swine Flu, Hog Farms, and Piggish Politics

Arthur Waskow 4-30-2009

There is a lot more to the swine flu outbreak than a virus and a vaccine: There is, surprise surprise, a political-economic context.

Audio: Earmarked for Kingdom Justice

Efrem Smith 4-30-2009

In this clip, Pastor Efrem preaches from the book of Proverbs, specifically chapters 10-18, in which there is a contrast made between the righteous person and the wicked person.