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Is The American Dream God's Dream?
Nearly 50 million Americans are currently living below the poverty line (that is $22,000 for a household of four) and half of them are working full time jobs.In our current economic system, the...
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Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
How helps us understand that principled behavior isn't merely something a PR/Corporate Social Responsibility staff or attorneys tell us is important. Rather it is the surest path to success and...
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A Peacemakers Litany
When the injustices of this world seems too much for us to handle, help us to remember that you fed 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fishread more
View ArticleJim Wallis and Gary Bauer on CNN's "State of the Union" Discuss Religion and...
On Sunday morning (11/6), Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis appeared on CNN's "State of the Union," with American Values president Gary Bauer and host Candy Crowley to discuss how religion will affect the 2012...
View ArticleMormons and Patriotism
As Americans celebrate the nation’s founding, some Mormons may outdo their neighbors in fireworks, fanfare, and frenzy to express their outsized patriotism.Love of America, they believe, stretches...
View ArticleThe America I Love
It’s a hot summer evening in a Midwestern town. The grass is glimmering in the bright lights, contrasting with the brown dirt of the base cut-outs and pitcher’s mound. On the field, nine to a side,...
View ArticleTaking America Back for God?
We’ve all heard the rhetoric. “We need to take America back for God!”Why? Supposedly so we can regain some bygone level of ethics or moral standards. Supposedly, if we don’t, God will get tired of us...
View ArticleMuslim Parents Wrestle with Passing on Islamic Values
Muslim immigrants to America frequently worry whether their children will be able to maintain their Islamic identity in a country with a reputation for rampant vice and promiscuity. Many respond by...
View ArticleReligious Groups Join Forces Against Sex Trafficking
The difference between sex trafficking and freelance prostitution is who has the control and who is keeping the money, said prosecutor Lindsey Roberson, an assistant district attorney in New Hanover...
View ArticleWatch the Vote: A Prayer for America
It’s here, God — Election Day in America. Today is the day when Americans everywhere are given the privilege and responsibility to exercise dominion (agency) at the polls.Scripture tells us every human...
View ArticleLeading Toward Freedom
Tomorrow, millions of people across this land, will be celebrating our nation’s freedom. Many will be marking Independence Day by going to see the fireworks, watching Fourth of July parades, or just...
View ArticleRe-Imagining Patriotism
I was five years old on Independence Day in 1976. The United States' bicentennial fever had overtaken the entire population. Everything was dressed in red, white, and blue. I remember decorating my...
View ArticleTrayvon and George: A Tale of Two Americas
The recent “not guilty” verdict out of Sanford, FL, reflects the principle of the American legal system that if there is reasonable doubt, courts will err on the side of innocence. I dispute neither...
View ArticlePresident Obama: ‘Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me 35 Years Ago’
President Obama addressed the nation today regarding the George Zimmerman trial, giving his thoughts on the nation's response to the verdict and the state of racism in our society.Folks understand the...
View ArticleRacism: America's Original Sin
IN SPIRITUAL AND BIBLICAL terms, racism is a perverse sin that cuts to the core of the gospel message. Put simply, racism negates the reason for which Christ died—the reconciling work of the cross. It...
View ArticleSurprising Stories of Climate Change Here in the U.S.
As the Creation Care campaign associate at Sojourners, my job is to get people thinking about God’s call for us to care about the creation. Usually, I do that from behind a desk in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleInfographic on Mass Incarceration
The Criminal Justice Degree Hub released an infographic on mass incarceration in the U.S. titled "Locked Up In America." According to the extensive graphic, the U.S. has 5 percent of the world's...
View Article'American Promise' Film Documents Two Black Families Navigating Education in...
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who...
View ArticleWhy Racism Is (Almost) Omnipotent
I must use the adverb “almost” because there is a necessary distinction between all and some. It is the difference between mighty and almighty.But we must never forget that whatever is mighty can...
View ArticleGareth Higgins on Peace, Politics, and Our Nation's 'Cinematic States'
Lots of people like movies; Gareth Higgins loves movies. But the founding director of the Wild Goose Festival and long-time peace activist engages popular culture with a different eye than most of us....
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