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Counting the Cost of Good and Bad Debt

Jim Wallis 3-26-2009

While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.

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Obama and the G-20

Jim Wallis 3-24-2009
Next week, leaders of the G-20, the 19 countries with the largest economies and the European Union, will meet in London.
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A Double Victory for Liberian Immigrants

Bailey Craft 3-24-2009
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Obama Speaks on Immigration Reform

Allison Johnson 3-19-2009
Many people claim the economic crisis and fixing immigration are incompatible issues or competing priorities.
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Obama's Community of Support and Challenge

Jim Wallis 3-16-2009
Yesterday, The New York Times ran a story about five pastors who have served the president in a variet
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An Involuntary Lent

Jim Wallis 3-04-2009

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Our Moral Audit of the Budget

Jim Wallis 3-02-2009
Four years ago, faced with a disastrous federal budget proposal, Sojourners coined a phase, "budgets are moral documents." That phrase has now entered the common lexicon, but it remains our fundam
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War No More

John K. Stoner 3-01-2009

The memos to President Obama in the January issue are interesting for what they omit as well as for what they include.

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Sharing History

David Buer 3-01-2009

During some moments of pre-Christ­mas calm, I had a chance to read the memos to President Obama (“Dear President Obama,” January 2009).

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Check Your Terms

Brigit M. Barnes 3-01-2009

[Regarding “A New Faith Coalition,” by Jim Wallis, January 2009]: Those who characterize abortion as “single-issue politics” often use the goal to “reduce the number o

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Reduce Military Spending

Victor Goering 3-01-2009

After reading (for the second time) the “Dear President Obama” letters, I was disappointed that no one mentioned the need to reduce the huge U.S. military budget.

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America in Black and White

Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-2009
Does the Obama era herald a post-racial United States?
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Time to Come to Washington

Jim Wallis 3-01-2009

Here's an opportunity to help make social change happen: Join us in the nation's capital in April.

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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
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Mixed Signals on Immigration Enforcement

Jennifer Svetlik 2-26-2009
Washington, D.C., is sending mixed signals about how to enforce immigration law, and immigrants and their families are suffering the consequences.

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Obama's Call to Rebuild

Jim Wallis 2-25-2009
This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.
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Hope for Darfur?

Charlton Breen 2-24-2009
The United States has recognized that genocide is taking place in Darfur, Sudan. That recognition is now five years old.
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The Bipartisan Poverty Forum

Jim Wallis 2-19-2009
Through the partisan fistfight of the general election, in the midst of political posturing during the transition, and moving forward in spite of a Congress split down party lines, a bipartisan gro
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Pastor-in-Chief

Diana Butler Bass 2-10-2009
In this week's town hall meetings, President Obama demonstrated an important aspect of his office: Pastor-in-Chief.

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A Fine Start for Common Ground Abortion Reduction

Douglas Kmiec 2-10-2009
The first weeks of the Obama administration have been a whirlwind of appointments, and as advertised, "change," but the aspect most in evidence is the president's efforts at finding common ground.
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