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SeptemberSep 12 Friday 08
Jesus Convinces Some Evangelicals to Reject Torture (by Jimmy McCarty)
Based on some responses to my last post, and a new poll by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University, it seems there are many evangelicals who believe that there are in fact times when torture is necessary and proper. I am assuming these people also believe it …
SeptemberSep 11 Thursday 08
Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on Remembering 9/11, Hurricane Ike, Immigration, Religion and Employment, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, India, and Bolivia.
Why My Church is Hosting a Poverty Sunday (by Troy Jackson)
Two of the mantras that my evangelicalism has taught me over the years are these:
1. Be True to Scripture
2. Avoid Politics
The heart for God's Word is not all that surprising, given the "Sola Scriptura" roots of Protestantism and the attempt to be …
Voice of the Day: Arundhati Roy
The only dream worth having ... is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead ... To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of life around …
Verse of the Day: 'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation'
He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks; nation …
The Church's Role in the Georgia-Russia Conflict (by Jim Forest)
The recent Georgia-Russia mini-war in and around South Ossetia was definitely not a religious war, but it serves as a reminder that religious identity doesn't even come in third place when issues of national identity are at issue. While the battle raged, the …
Reflecting on Our Response to 9/11 (by Jim Wallis)
Seven years ago this morning, airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. The next day I joined with a few others to draft the following statement. In a few weeks, more than 4,000 of America's …
Holding 9/11's Emotions Up to the Light of God (by Brian McLaren)
All of us remember this day, where we were when we heard the news, our feelings, our fears. There has been a lot of controversy about how the memory of this day has been or is being used or misused for political purposes, but I always come back to one of my life …
SeptemberSep 10 Wednesday 08
Moving the Abortion Debate Beyond Partisan Purists (by Tony Campolo)
In books and speeches, I have often said that God is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I have contended that to make either party "The God Party" is idolatry. This, however, does not mean that Christians should abandon political activism. It has been said …
Torturing the Least of These (by Jimmy McCarty)
Christians are people who follow a tortured and murdered God. This fact speaks clearly to what our values should be. One of those values should be a rejection of torture, violence in the name of "law" and the common good, and murder.
Currently, the U.S. …
Dealing With Rejection (by Bart Campolo)
The other day Marty invited some neighborhood kids over to help with a mailing she brought home from work. Before they got started, she sent 12-year-old Heather across the street to fetch 13-year-old Jasmine, who has been part of our fellowship from the very …
The New Monastics and Mosaic Leadership: Otra Voz (by Gabriel Salguero)
[Click here to see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]
I've been following the recent online conversation about racial reconciliation and the New Monastics rather closely. Why? Because it is a conversation whose time has come. I honestly …
SeptemberSep 9 Tuesday 08
Reaching Out Across Differences (by Seth Naicker)
I have paid keen interest to this current presidential race. Being from another country, the whole process is quite fascinating and emotive, as gifted rhetoric and track records are flaunted for the public eye and reflection.
However, as much as the presidential …
Voice of the Day: Dom Helder Camara
Selfishness ... feeds an insatiable hunger that first eats up everything belonging to others and then causes a creature to devour itself.
- Dom Helder Camara
Brazilian archbishop
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Verse of the Day: 'They do not know how to do right'
They do not know how to do right, says the Lord,
those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.
- Amos 3:10
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New Monastics and White Privilege (by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz)
[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]
Las Caras Lindas de mi Gente Negra,
Son un desfile de melaza en flor,
Que cuando pasan frente a mi se alegra,
Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
The latest news on Housing Finance, Hurricane Ike, Politics and Pulpit, Unemployment, Children's Health Insurance, Immigration, Palin's Faith, Cyberspace War, Afghanistan, Candian Election, Israel, Nuclear India, US-Russia nuclear agreement, Sudan, and select …
Called or Drawn to 'The Abandoned Places of Empire'? (by Sharaya Tindal)
[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]
The very first mark of the New Monastic movement is to relocate to the abandoned places of the empire. However, after quick research, most of the social justice-geared intentional communities I …
Anti-Christian Violence in India (by Benjamin Marsh and Adam Taylor)
Last week Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and world governments (including our own) publicly spoke out on an issue that has barely broken through the international news. On August 24, a massive program of violence against Christians began in the Kandhamal …
My Summer with Daddy King (Part 3, interview by Becky Garrison)
[continued from part 1 and part 2]
Back in 1961, Gurdon Brewster was a seminary student at Union Theological Seminary, training to be an Episcopal priest. When this Northern liberal raised his hand to volunteer as a summer intern at Ebenezer Baptist Church, he …