I just finished Barack Obama’s article in the November 2006 issue of Sojourners (“One Nation ... Under God?”), and I am deeply moved.
Politics
Meg E. Cox 12-01-2006
John Perkins' pioneering ministry has shown that true racial reconciliation can only come with economic and political empowerment.
Jim Wallis 12-01-2006
Political manipulation of religion only compounded the crime of political neglect of the poor.
Obery M. Hendricks Jr. 12-01-2006
Jesus was a political revolutionary—not the meek figure he is commonly portrayed as—whose teachings have been diluted, if not corrupted, by those in positions of power, writes Obery Hen
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-2006
Neil Young's Living With War reopens the channel between artist and audience.
Julie Polter 8-01-2006
Like a cluster of traffic cops, insurance adjusters, and whiplash lawyers at a multicar pileup, writers of all sorts are trying to make sense of the dangerous intersection of faith and politics in
Maurice Timothy Reidy 6-01-2006
Roughly 40 percent of Catholics are reliable Republicans, and 40 percent are reliable Democrats. The rest could go either way. That makes Catholics the ultimate swing voters.
E.J. Dionne Jr. 6-01-2006
If the church causes discomfort only to one political party when both are in need of repentance, it is not being the church.
Amy Sullivan 4-01-2006
The politics of abortion has been dominated by extreme views on either side, but now voters are looking for solutions, not slogans.
Frederica Mathewes-Green 4-01-2006
'How many of you are both pro-life and against the death penalty?'