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SeptemberSep 22 Monday 08
God's Politics Has Moved!
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After two years of a blog partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet, we're moving the God's Politics Blog in-house to the Sojourners …
SeptemberSep 18 Thursday 08
God's Politics Has Moved!
Please change your bookmarks to: www.godspolitics.com
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After two years of a blog partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet, we're moving the God's Politics Blog in-house to the Sojourners …
God's Politics Has Moved!
Please change your bookmarks to: www.godspolitics.com
and your RSS feeds to: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?feed=rss2
After two years of a blog partnership between Sojourners and Beliefnet, we're moving the God's Politics Blog in-house to the Sojourners …
SeptemberSep 17 Wednesday 08
Just the Facts (by Jim Wallis)
Most of you are too young to remember Joe Friday, the tough inner-city police sergeant on the old television series Dragnet, which I still see sometimes in syndication. The no-nonsense cop was famous for a line he almost always used while conducting his …
SeptemberSep 16 Tuesday 08
Beyond Just War Theory (by Valerie Elverton Dixon)
Just war theory is a mode of analysis that lists criteria by which war may be considered righteous before, during, and after its execution. The criteria to consider before a war are: declared by legitimate authority, just cause, right intent, reasonable hope of …
Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on the Wall Street Crisis, Iraq, Iran, Presidential Campaign, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Ike-Cuba, Crime, Homelessness, Zimbabwe, Burma/Myanmar, Bolivia, and Father D'Escoto at U.N.
A Colombian Peacemaker's 'Option for Civil Resistance' (by Janna Hunter-Bowman)
We are deeply concerned. Attempts are being made to link H
Ohio After Ike: On the Ground, In the Dark (by Virginia Lohmann Bauman)
Yesterday afternoon, after devastating the Texas coast, the remnants of Hurricane Ike tore through Granville and the rest of Ohio, uprooting centuries old trees and downing power lines with hurricane force winds. More than one million Ohioans lost power, and …
SeptemberSep 15 Monday 08
Voice of the Day: Flannery O'Connor
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Verse of the Day: 'How long shall I cry for help'
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you "Violence!"
and you will not save?
Why do you make me see wrongdoing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
- Habakkuk 1:2-3
Catholic Bishops Denounce Immigration Raids as Anti-Family (by Jennifer Svetlik)
Last year I lived in a Catholic Worker house that offers hospitality to immigrants without first inquiring about their legal status. One day, a woman called the house on behalf of two young boys who had come home to an empty apartment; their parents had been …
Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on Hurricane Ike, Wall Street Crisis, Afghanistan, Unemployed Women, Education, Urban Gleaning, Religion, Arms Sales, Zimbabwe, Canadian Election, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Bolivia, India, and Select Op-eds.
Ten Reasons Why This Election Should Be About Issues and Not Personalities (by Jim Wallis)
The presidential tickets in this election on both sides of the aisle have lots of "personality;" some of the candidates have even been referred to as "rock stars." John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis has said that "this election is not about issues, this …
SeptemberSep 14 Sunday 08
Once Upon a Time There Was a House... (by Phyllis Tickle)
Once upon a time there was a house...
Anything that begins with such words as that usually carries with it the implicit promise that a tale is about to be told. "Once upon a time" rarely is a vehicle for conveying factual or objective truth. Rather, we have …
SeptemberSep 12 Friday 08
Voice of the Day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our being Christian today will be limited to two things: prayer and righteous action among humanity.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Verse of the Day: 'I have compassion for the crowd'
Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."
- Matthew 15:32
In the Band without Leading It (by Sam and Rosalee Ewell)
[Click here to see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]
Greetings from Brazil! Rosalee and I have been following this exchange closely even if from afar -- or
Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on Hurricane Ike, Remembering 9/11, Palin Interview, Domestic Violence, Cost of Killing, Zimbabwe, Child Deaths, West Bank Peace, Iraq, Venezuela, Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Russia.
One Day, I Will Join the NRA (by Tim King)
This week, The New York Times ran an editorial about H.R. 6691, follow-up legislation to the June Supreme Court decision on D.C.'s gun ban. After reading the editorial, I made a resolution: One day I will join the National Rifle Association.
I first started …
'Meaner Streets' in D.C. (by Elizabeth Denlinger)
Even though we don't often weigh in on local D.C. political issues, the Sojourners policy team made an exception on a new piece of legislation that would have a direct impact on gun violence in the District. We signed Sojourners on to a faith-group letter last …